Comments on: Sony Planning to Enter Netbook Market

By: Kog

Kog — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:30:03 +0000

Using an Acer Aspire One for work (and for typing this) means I don’t have to lug around a heavier, bulkier laptop. I don’t lose much in the way of flexibility and processing power (the Aspire runs Office 2003, Sibelius or Quickbooks without any problem whatsoever and has a 120GB HD), and if I need a DVD player/reader, I have a very small/light Samsung drive powered by USB only that serves my purposes well.

Sony will discover soon enough that an expensive, bloatware-infested (the typical Sony configuration) netbook will not survive long in the current market. The Aspire One is $350 and even the newly announced Asus 10″ netbook will have to provide some compelling specs to make me consider switching. Styling is a nice feature but not sufficient in itself to pay a premium in this economy and market niche.

By: brew

brew — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:09:06 +0000

what is a micro-notebook? Hmm..maybe a netbook! Sony already defined this space of portable laptops when they debuted the Sony picturebook. Remember that 8.9″ notebook with the old school crusoe chip?

Sonys problem isn’t innovation it’s there timing!

By: dangeriffic

dangeriffic — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:44:52 +0000

let’s face it here…the “netbook” is a fad that will soon pass (can’t wait!)
what we really want (and need) is a micro-notebook, not some pretty little “toy”.
Sony knows this, and they are very wise to let the other bottom feeders fight for the playground set. Size (as in small) is nice and important to certain professional or home users, but size is NOT everything. A tiny piece of crap is still just a piece of crap. I have total confidence that any “netbook” built by Sony wouldn’t be a piece of crap at all.

By: Calm Hill

Calm Hill — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:11:30 +0000

Sony is smart by waiting to se thei mistakes of it’s competitors then creating their product around eliminating those cxoncerns and addiing on some bonuses for us.

The Individual, calm Hill – author of wwalking in the Footsteps of God
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By: mark rushworth

mark rushworth — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:26:10 +0000

i doubt it will be cheap enough to dent acer/eee’s crown – even the dell mininote 9 is too expensive and under spec’d

By: AndyJapan

AndyJapan — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:59:46 +0000

Cool comment. “We are letting the pioneers in the market make the mistakes” basically means that SONY doesn’t want to be a pioneer, doesn’t want take any risk and follows a Me-too strategy. Not the first time they are following a trend… I doubt that a SONY netbook will be able to compete with the current netbooks in terms of price-performance ratio. It will be for sure too expensive and contain a lot of proprietary crapware… I’ll pass.