Re: [cwelug] Netbooks are dying

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:31:42 -0800


This guy doesn't seem to think that the tablet "virtual" keyboards are very good.  I have never owned a tablet myself, but
I have used a netbook a time or two.  I find the 8.9" keyboard to be too small (not unusable but too small) and find the
keyboard on the 10.1" netbook to be just right.

-- Robert

'Why Not Just Buy a Netbook?'

Tablets are not in Slashdot blogger hairyfeet's future, either.

"With the exception of a few simple tasks such as taking inventory, tablets are more for content consumption than anything else, and I already have plenty of ways to do that!" hairyfeet told Linux Girl.

"Why anyone would want to spend the prices they want for a halfway decent tablet -- when one could get a nice AMD (NYSE: AMD) Neo netbook for the same price which will let you consume PLUS game PLUS create PLUS take notes and do another dozen jobs -- is beyond me," hairyfeet opined. "I have yet to see a virtual keyboard that wasn't just horrible, and if I am gonna have to buy a keyboard for the thing anyway, why not just buy a netbook?"


http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/71660.html?wlc=1295414806



Scott Granneman wrote: 
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/01/acer-tablets-netbooks/

To summarize: the future is tablets, not netbooks.

Scott
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