http://discuss.slashgear.com/topic/segment-saturation-where-next-for-netbooks Discuss Gadgets! en-US Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:12:19 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://discuss.slashgear.com/search.php http://discuss.slashgear.com/topic/segment-saturation-where-next-for-netbooks#post-35 Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:17:11 +0000 Chris Davies 35@http://discuss.slashgear.com/ <blockquote><p>Read SlashGear &#8211; or any tech website &#8211; even semi-regularly and you&#8217;ll see new <a href="http://www.slashgear.com/tags/netbook/" target="_blank">netbooks</a> appearing pretty much every day.  The niche that started off with the Eee PC 700 as an unusual budget ultraportable has flourished to the point where most major notebook manufacturers have at least one on sale or in the pipeline.  Just as common, however, as the new models is the phrase &#8220;another 1.6GHz Intel Atom&#8221;; the netbook market may not have reached saturation point, but has our interest in the same old hardware?</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18249" title="netbooks_2" src="http://www.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/netbooks_2-480x210.jpg" alt="netbooks 2 480x210" width="480" height="210" /></p> </blockquote> <p><br/><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/segment-saturation-where-next-for-netbooks-0318247/">Segment Saturation: Where next for Netbooks?</a></p>