They’ll pry my Mini 1000 from my cold dead hands!
Seriously, netbooks are a no-brainer. I have no idea why so many execs and ‘tech writers’ don’t get it.
I bought a full size Toshiba laptop about 5 years ago. To this day, it still does everything I need and I’m what one would consider a power user in every way except gaming.
My netbook has more power than that laptop and it weighs 1/3 what the full size one does. The netbook is more powerful than my desktop was in 2001 and back then I ran Photoshop and Flash and all kinds of stuff and it worked just fine.
I’d never give up my quad core desktop, but, IMHO, those who think you’re ‘giving up’ something by going for a netbook are misguided.
I'm guessing the writers are trying to discourage netbook sales a bit, whether on their own or at the request of manufacturers. There isn't much profit in netbooks, so some would like to see fewer sales.