On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:34:51 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> ____/ 7 on Thursday 28 February 2008 20:37 : \____
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>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>> Top 5 Sub-$300 Laptops Compared
>>>
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>>> | Whether you?re looking for a child?s laptop, or just want a cheap
>>> piece | of hardware to play with, the sub-$300 laptop category has a
>>> lot to | offer. With a field full of open source plaforms and rugged
>>> designs, | you?re sure to find something you?ll like. Here we?ll take
>>> a look at 5 | of the best.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.virtualhosting.com/blog/2008/top-5-sub-300-laptops-
compared/
>>>
>>> Sony leery of the Asus Eee PC?
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | At Sony's annual Open House event, Sony's IT product division senior
>>> | vice president Mike Abary said if the Asus Eee PC starts to do well,
>>> | it could potentially shift the entire notebook industry into a race
>>> | to the bottom.
>>
>> What sony$ are saying is they can't compete as they used to. They need
>> their competitors to fall and roll over dead. It would be more
>> interesting if sony$ and their marketing department rolls over and
>> drops dead!!!
>>
>> As costs start to fall, there will be plenty of competitors trying to
>> fill the niche for low cost laptop PCs. If anything, overal demand
>> would soar into millions of units per day as with embedded Linux
>> gadgets for example, (most of which sony$ can't put a foot in because
>> of their high priced goods). Its seems competition is good for the
>> customer as more customers participate. And sony$ marketing department
>> is lying when it says its a race to the bottom. It only applies to
>> their own high priced products that can't compete.
>>
>>
> Acer and H-P are already responding with low-cost laptops (probably both
> Linux-based but details will come soon.). They have no choice. They have
> to compete somehow.
Most desktop machines are overbuilt today. I went to a doctor
yesterday. A PC was looping a video of the wonders of modern surgery,
which the doctor will gladly perform. Lots of space for disk drives and
PCI cards. Big power supply with a noisy fan. What a waste. One of
these cheap notebooks could to the job just as well.
Or perhaps ...
Microsoft didn't bloat their software fast enough to suck up all the
hardware advancements.
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