Not sure I understand this use of the word
Are they saying that spare pieces of Celerons are being used to build shonky netbooks that look like Citroen 2CVs?
That's what I thought cannibalisation meant.
An Intel exec claimed today that the dive in computer sales many have blamed on cheap-as-chips netbooks was currently at about 20 per cent, "less than speculation". Chipzilla's EMEA sales boss Christian Morales told Reuters netbook sales accounted for 16 per cent of all notebooks flogged worldwide. He added that the figure …
"Morales said Intel was keen to flog budget netbooks in Africa, but added the cost of web access needed to be lowered first."
What good is a netbook/notebook/laptop/desktop/HPC without web access nowadays? Surely so stripped of communication, is it merely a precocious, self-indulgent toy. The Network is the Computer .... or is it and IT just AIdDriver........ which takes us very conveniently into the Irregular and Unconventional Wacky World of Virtual Operating Systems ...... and Silver* Cloud Service?
* As a Novelty, does such an Elemental Descript allow for any number of Future Beta Improvemments
they've asked themselves WHY people are buying netbooks?
I have three laptops (and a number of other PCs & Servers) each useful for different things. I recently bought a netbook because it is light, very light.
As I spend two hours a day on the train and a further hour going to and from the station I wanted the lightest thing that would do what I wanted. My netbook does all that I want and more.
And I don't break my back carrying it around.
Maybe amanfromMars got one thing right. Netbooks may be "precocious, self-indulgent toy(s)" but this one's _MY_ precocious, self-indulgent toy.