Steve Jobs on netbooks a year ago

[RavenSEAL]

WTF is the MacBook Air then?

Not to mention that POS cost $700 more than a "cheap laptop".

Once again steven jobs saying stupid shit that rapes the wallets of idiotic apple fanboys and stupid americans.

So Steve Jobs, i'll take my "cheap laptop" for $250 and pocket the other $800.

See ya never.

 

[Kommander_Kink]

Only an idiot would think that the iPad or any of those keyboard-less things are better than a netbook. Does the ipad has flash or USB drives? Noooo, fail.

 

[tokie]

The MacBook Air has a perfectly capable ~1.6GHz Core 2 Duo processor with a 48-shader graphics card. Couple those with a decent SSD and DDR3 memory, and I don't see how anyone is able to compare those to a POS $400 eeePC with Atom. The current MacBook Air really is a resurrection of the older ultraportable laptop, which seemed to go extinct from 2004 on.

The only thing changing the current POS netbook perception for me is Bobcat, which has produced some decent designs in the past few days.

 

[bfdd]

And all of these companies passed up on tablets and lost on $$$$$$. As they were competing against one another for a share of the netbook market, giving Apple a monopoly with the iPad and only now are they rushing to release tablets. Just like the iPhone and iPod.

Shows me that Jobs outsmarted all of these other companies to become a $300 billion company. And why would you consider them fads? People want a more portable computing device. Most people also just surf and use email. Notebooks outsell desktops now. Is that a fad too?

no they didn't the market is immature as hell and so is the technologies.

 

[nageov3t]

wake me up when tables have actual keyboards

 

[Capt Caveman]

no they didn't the market is immature as hell and so is the technologies.

????? So, they decided to cannibalize sales of their Notebooks to compete with one another on Netbooks and let Apple have a monopoly on the tablet market.

 

[lxskllr]

The MacBook Air has a perfectly capable ~1.6GHz Core 2 Duo processor with a 48-shader graphics card. Couple those with a decent SSD and DDR3 memory, and I don't see how anyone is able to compare those to a POS $400 eeePC with Atom. The current MacBook Air really is a resurrection of the older ultraportable laptop, which seemed to go extinct from 2004 on.

The only thing changing the current POS netbook perception for me is Bobcat, which has produced some decent designs in the past few days.

I paid $200 for my Eee, and it does everything I need. It might be slower than the Air, but the Air's POS also. If I'm paying real money, I want a real computer. If I'm buying a portable beater, I want the cheapest machine I can get.

 

[zerocool84]

I paid $200 for my Eee, and it does everything I need. It might be slower than the Air, but the Air's POS also. If I'm paying real money, I want a real computer. If I'm buying a portable beater, I want the cheapest machine I can get.

For $1000 you expect good modern hardware, not 2yr+ old hardware.

 

[CZroe]

Where were you guys two years ago when I was being down-rated?

http://www.dailytech.com/Dell+Mini+10+Officially+Unveiled/article14355.htm

Basically, the name "netbook" comes from it not being very useful for much else than browsing the 'net due to limited I/O and/or storage. The MBA has always fit that definition. The typical netbook size was defined by MS' XP licensing terms, so that certainly had nothing to do with the definition. The CPUs were limited to single-core for the same reason. I have no problem with people calling my C2D-powered Alienware M11x a netbook just the same as my Atom-powered Acer Aspire one. The Asus N10 had discrete graphics and was unarguably still a netbook. The Lenovo S10 had ExpressCard and was also inarguably a netbook. Price and size were being dictated by MS' XP license terms, so the MBA can drift away from that and still be a netbook simply because they are Apple.

 

[Aharami]

i'll agree with Jobs on this one. Netbooks suck. I have an Aspire One and I never use it. I find the screen waaaaay too small. My wife prefers the netbook over the 17" inspiron though. The only time the netbook comes in handy (for me) is while traveling.

 

[erikistired]

Even when he rips you off? Spoken like a true braindead Apple fan boy.

when has steve ever ripped anyone off? did he kick your dog too?

 

[DesiPower]

 

[Eli]

 

[MrX8503]

The MacBook air is expensive, but it's not a netbook. The argument of macs being overpriced will go on to the end of time. I would agree back in the PowerPC days, but I disagree once they went intel.

 

[thepd7]

Only an idiot would think that the iPad or any of those keyboard-less things are better than a netbook. Does the ipad has flash or USB drives? Noooo, fail.

eh it's a fun toy but yeah not $400 better than a netbook.

wake me up when tables have actual keyboards

this.


Also, that comic is hilarious

 

[cheezy321]

For $1000 you expect good modern hardware, not 2yr+ old hardware.

Show me a laptop with a 1.6 GHZ core 2 duo and a 128 GB SSD drive from 2 years ago.

It has to weigh less than 2.5 lbs.

Kthxbye.

 

[foghorn67]

Show me a laptop with a 1.6 GHZ core 2 duo and a 128 GB SSD drive from 2 years ago.

It has to weigh less than 2.5 lbs.

Kthxbye.

x200, x301

 

[frostedflakes]

Not for someone who wants a real keyboard like me. Tablets may be sexier, but netbooks are more usable.

This, lack of a physical keyboard is just a deal killer for me. I'd rather carry a netbook around than a tablet.

Anyway, netbooks were a fad for a few years (not that they aren't nice devices with legit uses, but a lot of people just bought them because they were the cool new electronic toy/gadget). Now tablets are a fad. Give it a couple years and something else will replace it.

 

[Powermoloch]

net books are still rocking.

 

[rockyct]

The market was too crowded in the netbook segment and because many manufactures diversified their product lines, this means that Steve Jobs was right?

 

[her209]

Apple also said the Pentium II processor was slow.

 

[cheezy321]

x200, x301

Damn those are sick laptops. But they still weigh more and they are damn expensive, even more so than the macbook air. Where is all the outrage at that laptop being overpriced? Oh wait, it's not an apple product, that's why.

But they are sweeeeet. Me want.

 

[bfdd]

????? So, they decided to cannibalize sales of their Notebooks to compete with one another on Netbooks and let Apple have a monopoly on the tablet market.

lol

 

[foghorn67]

Damn those are sick laptops. But they still weigh more and they are damn expensive, even more so than the macbook air. Where is all the outrage at that laptop being overpriced? Oh wait, it's not an apple product, that's why.

But they are sweeeeet. Me want.

Honestly I never paid for one. I had an x200 and later an x201 at work. The thing is ALL battery. Take it out and a small post-it note pad weighs more.

I never priced one out for the consumer (ie, for myself with my wallet). Always with a CDW account and the buy in bulk discounts that go with it.

I didn't actually like the lack of the trackpad. If I had a choice it would be a T410S. That things shreds. Fucking fast laptop that is barely bigger in dimensions than an Air. And Fuck yes, it's probably expensive as hell. Different ballpark. Full featured laptop so it's thicker and heavier. But for what it is, it is light.

 

[thescreensavers]

When I worked at bestbuy netbooks flew off the shelves.