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Originally Posted by Ankh
I honestly don't see how that can happen. I like the "trasformer" part of the Eee, but just today (being completely oblivious to the developments in Apple galaxy) noticed that in my local FutureShop this little puppy:
http://www.futureshop.ca/en-CA/produ.../10156610.aspx
iPad + that keyboard is not a replacement for Air, but it comes pretty darn close, as far as I am concerned. The only thing that can save a wintel netbook is a sudden and very surprising deployment of power_efficient/super_potent Intel hardware. |
Note that I'm saying 'swing some way back to netbooks'. I'm certainly not suggesting that the market will completely turn its back on iPads.
Here's another way to look at it. Tablets are big news at the moment, and lots of people are buying their first one. Within both the iPad and Android tablet communities you'll have a proportion of customers who find that the tablet is perfect for their needs, and another set who find that it has limitations for what they need to do. You only need to scan the posts here on MobileRead to see that there are plenty of the latter.
When that latter set come to make their next buying decision they'll be looking at netbooks, and we'll see a resurgence of the format.
Windows 8 hybrid netbook/tablets could well take off.
Or I could be completely wrong. It's going to be fun looking back at these posts in 5 years time!
Graham