3. Netbooks: small and in charge.
It’s always been possible to make a small notebook PC without much in the way of fancy features and sell it at a low price. It’s just that no major manufacturer bothered to do it until Asus released its first Eee PC (drawing obvious inspiration from OLPC’s XO) in the fall of 2007. Now everybody from HP to Lenovo is in the game, and some people want a Mac netbook so badly they’re not waiting for Apple to introduce one. I spent most of the year thinking that netbooks were a fad; I’m still not completely convinced they’re not…but I’m flirting with buying one myself.
December 19th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Good job, but I you seem to be applauding Apple too much (don’t worry, engadget does it too…but unlike with you people make fun of them!). I mean, Steve Jobs not doing the Mac Expo isn’t THAT huge of a story…Microsoft’s ad campaign and XP’s refusal to die (ironically both Microsoft stories) had more buzz than Jobs not doing the Expo.
Relyt
December 19th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Nice work – although I almost agree with Relyt… a bit too much Appletalk for us old school Microsoft geeks who are too stuck in our way to move to Apple. I wonder what the stories of 2009 will be – my guess is that electronic medical records and personal health records will be up there!
February 7th, 2009 at 7:14 am
Nice work
February 7th, 2009 at 7:14 am
Relyt Says:
December 19th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Good job, but I you seem to be applauding Apple too much (don’t worry, engadget does it too…but unlike with you people make fun of them!). I mean, Steve Jobs not doing the Mac Expo isn’t THAT huge of a story…Microsoft’s ad campaign and XP’s refusal to die (ironically both Microsoft stories) had more buzz than Jobs not doing the Expo.
Relyt
February 10th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
i work in the cellphone industry so with my perspective, its pretty near impossible to overemphasize the impact the i-phone has had.