Analysis: This Week in Netbooks
Posted on November 19th, 2009 by Nidhi
I like to compile a post every now and then with netbook news blips from the blogosphere. A mixture of light comments to heavy duty research. Fun stuff:
- Netbook suggested as Word of the Year by the New American Oxford Dictionary. Netbook didn’t make it, and was ousted by unfriend. Looks like cloud networking (Facebook) beats hardware in popular words :)
- Blogger calls netbooks ‘disposable’ – I lol-ed. An otherwise uninteresting post, it talks about netbooks being so portable and cheap, you can just pick one more up if it breaks. Just like the razors you pack along for your business trips!
- Netbooks don’t last as long as Notebooks – I mean, duh. Square Trade conducted a study on 30,000 new laptop covered by their security package – apparently 1 in 3 laptops fails in 3 years (whoa, my last 2 PCs are totally guilty of this) and netbooks are 20% more likely to fail.
- Asus & Toshiba netbooks are the sturdies – and don’t have as many hardware failures as most laptops. Explains why both netbooks are top sellers on Amazon. (same study as above)
- Surprisingly, HP netbooks are more likely to malfunction than among the other well-known netbook brands.
- Laptop accidents increase as the years go by – Okay, everyone know this, but it’s cool to see it in a somewhat quantified format (see below)
*Graphs from Square Trade
Related posts:
- Amazon’s Top Ten Netbooks for the Week
- Amazon’s Top Ten Netbooks for the Week
- This week in Netbooks – July 18-24
- Netbooks converging to A Standard Netbook Configuration?
- Netbooks are not going to die out.
Filed under: Netbook Analysis