March 18, 2008 4:10 PM PDT
Intel's Netbook leaked?
Does the Intel NetBook have a drinking problem?
(Credit: Tech Corner )Through the magic of Flickr , we've all spent the afternoon pondering blurry photos of what might be the Intel NetBook, a heretofore hypothetical computer powered by Intel's upcoming low-power Atom chips.
While we've already seen details of the desktop version, called the NetTop, via some leaked presentation, but the NetBook was a less-defined concept. Until now, that is. According to the original poster (on a blogspot blog called "Tech Corner"):
"My buddy works for a US Based OEM, and showed me a sample of one of the products that will be hitting US shores soon...It has a 900Mhz Celeron, 512 Ram, 40GB HD, 9 Inch screen, wifi, and Ethernet. It seems to be about 7" x 9"x 1.5". I asked him how much it was going to cost, and he said he didn't know but would probably be around 400 bucks. Said it should be available in the US by June."
If all this seem oddly familiar, it's because we've already seen a lot of this in Intel's Classmate PC, and a lot of the same concepts have already been commercialized in the best-selling Asus Eee PC.
The size may be compact, but really, who needs anything smaller than a 13.3 inch laptop? Unless this "Netbook" can have memory and hard disk and such be upgraded, I think this is just a waste of time.
Buy a 400 $ small lap top, get rid of it after a year, and get a better one. Maybe thats what they r going for...
I'm with the guy above me though, i wouldn;t get anything below 13 " once u start getting to a 12 -10," u mine aswell use a Wi-fi phone or some other type of communicator.