Comments on: Netbooks a temporary Band-aid on PC industry

Mini notebooks push up sales worldwide, but U.S. growth stalls despite declining prices.

[eBob1]

Nah, it's just a product filling a niche. Some people want a small, cheap, portable computer as a second or third computer. Most people buying netbooks already have a computer anyway. They just can't justify paying the cost for a computer with far more horsepower and heft than they need.

[David Gerard]

Seconded. No-one is buying these as a primary machine - it's always a secondary one.

Mind you, it's an increasingly versatile secondary one and a 10" 1280x800 screen would in fact serve as a very nice primary machine. My back would *love* me to get one.

[Lerianis]

Most consumers who weren't stupid enough to put their money into stocks are not having any problems whatsoever. My family was smart enough to realize that the stock market was NOT a good bet for retirement savings, and sayed the hell out of it.

And, at 1300 dollars for a kick-butt gaming PC....... I think anyone could afford that, don't you? Unless they are whiling away money on a lot of other stuff that they don't need.