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Netbooks Dominate Amazon Laptop Sales
Posted by Mark Wilson at 11:00 PM on September 25, 2008
Nine of the top ten selling notebooks on Amazon right now are netbooks. (The other spot is taken by Apple.) Call them underpowered, complain about their screens, but there's a reason why every PC manufacturer in the world has jumped on the netbook bandwagon.
It should be noted, of course, that just because these systems rule Amazon, it doesn't mean they are outselling the entire industry. There's a good chance buyers are more apt to buy an Aspire One through a third party while they'll customise their more expensive laptop through Dell or HP. Still, a good showing from the little guy. [Amazon via MacRumors and Engadget]
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Curves Wants a Classic View Default
Posted 11:28 PM 25/9/08
@OMG! Ponies!: You can qualify as a student, no matter what the class is...show a receipt for a Chinese cooking class from anything called a "school" and youre IN. (I have some great recipes from that class too.)
Curves Wants a Classic View Default
danatoth
Posted 11:19 PM 25/9/08
Aww they are so cutEee
danatoth
godwhacker
Posted 11:14 PM 25/9/08
@strider_mt2k:
do tell, big ol' stick of ram? touchscreen? ubuntu?
godwhacker
strider_mt2k
Posted 11:09 PM 25/9/08
I know I have a pretty long wait for my Inspiron Mini 9.
Put in my order on the 17th, slated arrival date is October 9th.
Dangerous, as it's giving me time to put together a couple of mods I already have planned for it. :D
strider_mt2k
se.beercan
Posted 11:08 PM 25/9/08
hmmm, so Apple is poised to jump into the netbook market with their new iBrick model? any rumors on the specs for this, aside from a slab grey exterior...
se.beercan
etaripamai
Posted 11:08 PM 25/9/08
Ohh man I just got an EEE 1000H 80GBHDD and theres a 160GBHDD for the same price... wtf... thanks giz, for announcing that price drop and making me go OOOOOO **drool** and miss out on an extra 80 GB of yummyness.... Not like it matters though, I dont think I would ever use 160GB just browsing the internet and writing papers for college.... I have a Zune for my music... (Gratuituous apple sucks)
etaripamai
Drummer_Boy
Posted 11:08 PM 25/9/08
I only make it one Apple PC in the top ten...
Not that it matters. I think people are just buying the netbooks for the cool factor at the moment and the fad wil die out soon enough.
That said, it should put paid to some of the dumbasses claiming that because Apple are usually number one on Amazon it actually means anything.
Drummer_Boy
nightsky
Posted 11:06 PM 25/9/08
OK. Now it is time for a compare-o-modo on these things. I want one but have neither the time nor patience to sit down and compare all of them by price and features. Just need a very light lappy for cruizing the net and looking at my mail.
nightsky
OMG! Ponies!
Posted 11:03 PM 25/9/08
Why are people buying Apple notebooks from Amazon? Go to the store or the website and get a "student" discount.
And I got my discount legit. Girlie is studying to be a teacher so I got the discount through her. Although it's not as if they actually crack down on enforcement.
OMG! Ponies!
jwardell
Posted 11:02 PM 25/9/08
NOT every manufacturer. I'm still waiting for Apple.
jwardell
Overheal
Posted 11:37 PM 25/9/08
Tamigachi, then Furby, then Pokemon, then Cellphones. Are netbooks going to be the next grade school craze?
Overheal
Joseph
Posted 11:33 PM 25/9/08
@Curves Wants a Classic View Default: Heh, I just show my Virginia Tech ID that I got back in 1999 and they let me right on through every year. I'm on my 3rd summer student discount bundle-where I sell off my free iPod on eBay or Craigslist :).
Joseph
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Posted 12:05 AM 26/9/08
Netbooks are just too small for my big ham-hands. I'd feel like Will Smith in MIB with the noisy cricket..
"I feel like I'm gonna break this thing."
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Mark Wilson
Posted 11:56 PM 25/9/08
@Drummer_Boy: You're right, must have been top 11 or something. Fixed.
Mark Wilson
Lupus_Yonderboy
Posted 12:14 AM 26/9/08
Ok, maybe this is a stupid question (trust me, I'm full of 'em) but does anyone know what the least expensive "netbook" on the market today is? I'm looking for something sub-$300 (and by that I don't mean $299...I'm looking for, like, $250...). At that price, I think that I can probably justify hacking the sh*t out of it...
Lupus_Yonderboy
strider_mt2k
Posted 12:45 AM 26/9/08
@godwhacker: Nothing groundbreaking or majorly cool I'm afraid.
Yep, dropping a 2gb stick in it.
Aside from that I was thinking about leveraging the USB connections in the unused PICe slot for an internal hub or something.
That stuff and the usual WinXP tweaks and optimizations.
Like I said, nothing groundbreaking, just some stuff to open it up and get a little more out of it.
strider_mt2k
Sixxtwo
Posted 12:39 AM 26/9/08
Sweet! and I get mine today! Picked up the Acer one, and tried for a week to get the newer version w/ the 6-cell from NCIXUS and they boned it up good on 3 different credit cards. So newegg it was.
But this pc will be alot nicer to do wireless heatmaps w/ compared to the gigantic tome of a Dell i9300.
Sixxtwo
OMG! Ponies!
Posted 12:38 AM 26/9/08
@Lupus_Yonderboy: OLPC
OMG! Ponies!
impliedsurprise
Posted 1:07 AM 26/9/08
i still heart my aspire one that i paid $50 more a week earlier for...but still waiting for the extended battery.
Does anyone know if they sell external batteries that plug straight into the computer via the power adapter plug? I have an ac power pack, but it seems like it's a waste of energy to go from DC (powerpack-battery) -> AC (powerpack-inverter) -> DC (laptop power adapter) Or does it really matter at all?
impliedsurprise
jwm1314
Posted 1:33 AM 26/9/08
Why doesn't everyone make a netbook? Profit margins, duh. Sure you can seel twenty billion of them, but if you're making little off of 'em, then why not just make a notebook that costs more, has a higher margin, and you'll make less of? You don't have to making 1,000,000,000 of something to have it be successful...
jwm1314
Some_F-in-ShiT_Ass
Posted 1:39 AM 26/9/08
@OMG! Ponies!: I got a student discount for not even being a student!! The guy said you are a student right? I said No, and he said, you re a student right? and I said "Sure" and I got my student discount on my Mac Pro, save like 300.00 and got a 3-year AppleCare plan. CRAZY STOKED!
Some_F-in-ShiT_Ass
OMG! Ponies!
Posted 2:19 AM 26/9/08
@Some_F-in-ShiT_Ass: I hear you all. I just don't fess up to a lot of stuff on the internet.
OMG! Ponies!
Hvedhrungr
Posted 2:14 AM 26/9/08
I love my AAO110. Put in another GB of RAM, for all of 20 bucks, and I had myself a cute little Ubuntu machine. Sure, I tried OSX on it before that, but it was ridiculously slow. Maybe Snow Leopard will change that. Probably it won't.
In any case, these netbooks are far more usable than browsing the web on a smartphone, or updating my blog on a 3 inch touchscreen keyboard. They don't tempt you to play games on them, and they're not made to watch DVDs (lacking a drive for that in the first place). But they're damn good to read up on your favorite blogs and do a bit of Skyping...!
Hvedhrungr
glenside
Posted 2:47 AM 26/9/08
@Lupus_Yonderboy:
EeePC has a model Surf which sells for $250.00 or a little less.
Google "EEEPC 2G Surf" and check the shopping tab to find where
glenside
AmishJohn
Posted 3:12 AM 26/9/08
My Aspire is in the clutches of UPS as we speak, along with a GB of RAM and a 16GB SDHC card.
First task after assembly: Ubuntu Netbook Remix.
AmishJohn
usa1
Posted 2:56 AM 26/9/08
My wife really likes her Acer Aspire one. I'd like it's battery life to be longer.
usa1
MarcusRadashack
Posted 4:14 AM 26/9/08
This is Sean over at Box.net. I think the discussion and interest people have in netbooks, on either side, shows that people really strongly believe in a device that fits between rich, web-enabled devices for your pocket and the computer you have on the desktop. The netbook is finally ready for what users want today - but ultimately, the market will tell manufacturers exactly what they need to do with this class of computer.
MarcusRadashack
chhyeeaa
Posted 10:34 AM 26/9/08
@jwardell: Wait... what?! You mean that God of manufactureres, Apple Inc., bastion of innovation and forward-thinking... doesn't have a netbook?!
Stop buying netbooks people! You don't want them! What you really want is a Mac Mini! And a Macbook Air!
I'm sorry, was that heavyhanded? Good.
chhyeeaa
godwhacker
Posted 3:24 AM 27/9/08
@strider_mt2k:
well if you didn't have it scoped out, there are instructions on making a bootable xp mem stick on the eeepc user forums. keep me/us up to date on the mods, ok?
godwhacker
jaakennuste
Posted 12:24 AM 29/9/08
Notebooks dominated earlier. Now netbooks will definately be #1 product group sold from [shop.it.ee] by net.
Jaak [shop.it.ee]
jaakennuste
UlbrechtHawk
Posted 6:12 AM 27/9/08
Perfect tool for the coffee shop. MSI Wind. 1.6 GB Intel Atom, 2 GB DDR, 80 GB HDD, 2.6 lb. I get 5 hours of surfing on a charge, and I can practically put this thing in my pocket! The only downside- Sentelic touchpad sux.
UlbrechtHawk