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...In 2007 Asus unveiled the Eee PC — the first netbook, or miniature laptop....
...Back in 2008, I paid about £220 ($350) for one of the first netbooks, an Asus Eee PC 4G Surf....
...Like many netbooks running Google’s cloud-oriented operating system, it struggles a bit with handling documents offline and all but requires using Gmail, Google Docs and other Google apps....
...At this school in La Plata, primary students have not yet received netbooks....
...His exit follows March’s reshuffle of the company’s Android management team that resulted in Sundar Pichai, also head of Google’s Chrome browser and netbook platform, replacing Andy Rubin, the long-serving...
...“They chased after netbooks,” he said, referring to the cheap, low-powered laptops that proved briefly popular in the late 2000s. “Now they are trying to make PCs into tablets and tablets into PCs....
...Chetan Sharma, a mobile industry consultant, said on Twitter that smartwatches were “the netbooks of 2013” – a reference to the shortlived popularity of cheap, low-powered laptops that were quickly superseded...
...Google recently replaced its head of Android, Andy Rubin, with Sundar Pichai, who now oversees both its Chrome browser and its netbook operating system, and the Android platform....
...The company likes to talk about ‘PC Plus devices’ – hybrid tablet/netbook devices, that sort of thing....
...In the US, the Asus netbook was voted “most wanted Christmas gift” by Amazon and CNET....
...Sir, I don’t know where Jonathan Farrington (Letters, June 16) buys his computers, but my two laptops and two netbooks, bought in the UK, all have the € symbol....
...The laptop reminded me of a classy netbook, with an 11.6in screen that is a little on the small size for a notebook, but large for a tablet....
...(Wall Street Journal) COMMENT AND CURIOS: - Somebody still loves netbooks. (Wall Street Journal) - The word from WEF Tianjin is locals are more bearish than foreigners....
...Asus sold 6m netbooks in 2010, but expects to sell just 4m this year....
...Acer, which recently unveiled the world’s thinnest-yet Ultrabook, and Asustek (inventor of the netbook), are betting on an uptick in laptop sales on the back of Windows 8....
...Introduced in 2008, netbooks use Intel’s low-cost Atom chips....
...The company, which still shares its unassuming offices in Taipei with the contract manufacturer of which it was once part, dominates in relatively inexpensive computers and netbooks....
...For those who prioritise battery life over processor speed, netbooks remain an option. What about leisure use? For small amounts of music (and perhaps even films), a smartphone is sufficient....
...However, sales of its low-power Atom microprocessors fell 32 per cent as the netbook market fell sharply in the face of competition from tablets such as Apple’s iPad 2....
...It has already gone down the obvious route of selling tablets and netbooks. A move into financial services is not as strange as it might seem....
...Carlos Blanco Andújar, redeeming his netbook computer, which he had pawned for a second time to raise an extra £40 while he looked for work, agrees. “The service is good. It’s local,” he says....
...The last time the island’s economy had been hit sharply was in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, but by early 2009 tech sales had recovered – helped by the popularity of smartphones and netbooks...
...Netbooks will be getting even cheaper. Asus announced on Monday that its next Eee PC netbook would sell for $199....
...Consumers are expected to prefer them to low-cost, basic netbooks because they have the same thin and light attributes that users liked in netbooks, but without the small screens and keyboards and limited...
...Stripped-down netbooks are among the devices most often replaced by tablets....
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