[SmokingJoe]

So much for all the recent deafening FUD from the Applebots that the iPad was “killing” netbooks. Netbooks can do a heck of a lot more than the iPad, have more features, and sell for half the price. Plus Intel is just about to introduce a dual-core netbook chip next month. It's a no brainier.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20004439-64.html

[babble-on]

no nobody’s spending anything, I know that because in my General Store we’re selling hardly any horehound hard candy.

[reagan_fanatic]

I have several laptops and had a netbook up until recently.

I love them, but they tend to get a little too warm after extended use, and hard drive failure is more prevalent since the drive is smaller and subject to more heat than a normal desktop drive is.

[mom4melody]

My 7 and soon to be 9 year old will be receiving netbooks for Christmas this year.

[KarlInOhio]

How are desktop sales doing? Is this an increase in sales, or just laptops being used as desktop replacements?

[PugetSoundSoldier]

This cannot be! Netbooks aren’t magical like the iPad, they cannot exist with the power that is iPad!

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Do any of you good folks know the latest on those laptops India was going to sell for $10?

[Yet_Again]

...not to mention that half the netbooks out there run the full version of Mac OS X quite well. Apple really dropped the ball dismissing the netbook sector. The iPad is nowhere near as capable a machine. I was thinking of getting a replacement but if Intel is going to be releasing a dual core netbook chip soon I’ll just continue to soldier on with my atom-powered MSI wind for the time being.

[Cyman]

"So much for all the recent deafening FUD from the Applebots that the iPad was “killing”� netbooks." I read the same trumpeting on Gizmodo and Engadget. According to them the netbook was going the way of leisure suits and should be a dead and buried innovation.

[catnipman]

I’ve had my hands on a few, and netbooks are great! Containing the 1.6 GHZ Atom processor, by the time you’ve hooked one up to an external monitor so you can see the screen, a USB keyboard so you can type easily, a USB mouse so you can scroll easily and a USB CD/DVD so you can play CDs and DVDs, why, you’ve got a “portable” computer that will match up with anything ever made eight years ago!

[PJ-Comix]

Good opportunity here to BRAG about getting my Compaq Presario laptop FREE back in March...via coupons. Or indirectly via coupons.