I have a netbook, I bought it in addition to my notebook. The netbook was never intended to be a notebook or a replacement for a full notebook. Too many salesman without a clue push on gullible people who end up disappointed.

Foe what they are they are great, clearly Intel and AMD still don't get it. They are high powered PDAs not low powered notebooks.

I use mine on holidays or in the car, not at home except for reading online TV guides.

I am sure intel hates the netbook market with a passion. Tiny profit margins are not something that can sustain a huge company like intel. Economy sucks so people are cutting back on spending couple that with the fact that netbooks are GOOD ENOUGH for most things and the sales of high margin parts are probably going down. Good for us but bad for intel.

Companies pay their employees and pay their operating expenses out of profits, and the "netbook" markets generate very little profit in contrast with more traditional markets. It's not surprising that many of the same people who think Vista is a "flop" might think that the "netbook" was a smash success...;) Sometimes I think that on-line product evaluations are written in terms of personal preference and desire as opposed to fact--but then, what else is new?

I think what he's saying is that they expected netbooks to open a new market, but they are actually selling mostly to their existing market, cannibalizing sales from more expensive laptops.

my girlfriend is very small, and she loves her Aspire One. It is proportionate to her in the way that a 15" laptop is proportionate to me.

Maybe they're just not marketing the netbooks to the right sized people. :)

They could just have said "We made a mistake". I am really sorry for Intel that the market did not develop as they had made plans for it. I really am.

"If you've ever used a Netbook and used a 10-inch screen size--it's fine for an hour. ..."
Absolutely!! If I would be working at Intel, and I would not need to pay for any hardware because my employer beats me to death with it, then I would certainly say the same.

Does this guy really work for sales and marketing? I wonder. He shows very little interest in detail in his statement. This guy is likely the reason why Intel did not see this success coming.

I think this is a response to the fact that just the very first laptop with one of those new "ultra value" or whatever Athlon 64s was only $300, and yet, it was a full laptop. And there are just going to be more and better ones popping up all over the place before Christmas.

And not even considering that, I've seen quite a few laptops with Pentium Dual-Cores for $400 to $500 lately, and not just online where there's pretty much always something to be found for cheap, but everywhere.

They can't compete with that selling often $500-600 completely stripped down computers.

"If you've ever used a Netbook and used a 10-inch screen size--it's fine for an hour. It's not something you're going to use day in and day out."

Hahaha. Let me guess, your partners are selling too few €1500 Core 2 Duo laptops..

If you've ever lugged a fat brick of a fully featured 15" laptop around the world - it's not something you're going to do for very long. And those so-called 'ultraportables' that all cost €2000? I think you know where I am about to tell you to stuff those.

Indeed the netbook is an additional device to have for convenience alongside another computer.

However as they get more popular, people are going to assess their other computers. Do they really need a laptop with their 8.9" NetBook? Surely a desktop PC and a decent monitor are now reasonable options again for many people that might have switched to a laptop in the last generation for mobility reasons.

A NetBook is perfectly adequate for on-the-go needs, it's light and convenient, it has outputs for presentations, not expensive enough to worry about so you'll pull it out in the pub and knock up some code or docs or whatever with your pint of beer. The CPU power isn't an issue, but being able to play YouTube and a divx is nice to have, and that's where we need better integrated graphics that Intel won't give us.

And the last thing is that these things are appliances, and people have different expectations from them. Sure, many people want their XP comfort zone, but others are quite happy with the Linux interfaces many are shipping with because they're task based and do the tasks they want to use them for.

Also they make great sofa systems for keeping up with IM, browsing online TV listings and casual surfing, then take it into the kitchen to follow a recipe.

I'm glad Intel and AMD are sooooo in tune with what I'm thinking....NOT.

I don't consider the "compromised" computing experience of a netbook (relative to a regular laptop) to be a downside at all. it's simply the price that must be paid to achieve a form factor that I value.

LAME

Pair it with a efficient chipset and people will be more interested. Battery life will increase significantly (especially if used with a SSD) and good times will be had by all.

Let me be the first to say it: this is a truly Stu-Pann-dous news article!

*runs away*