Netbooks , those petite , underpowered reckoner that were once harbor up as the Jesus Christ of the laptop market , havelong since fallen from favor . WhenDell announcedit was ending production the closing was near — and now the last remaining manufacturing business , Asus and Acer , have confirmed that the netbook is formally dead .
https://gizmodo.com/remember-netbooks-no-one-else-does-either-5853089
The Guardian reportsthat Asus and Acer ceased yield of the teeny - weeny , Intel Atom - powered information processing system as of yesterday . Kicked off by the Eee microcomputer all the way back in 2007 , the netbook was — for a curt period at least — a newfangled hope for the microcomputer industry . Highly portable and affordable devices with comme il faut stamp battery life sentence seemed rather attractive five yr ago — but a lot ’s changed since .
With the arrival of tablets and ultrabooks , the netbook ’s claims of portability suddenly were n’t quite as telling . Similarly , their public presentation — both in term of speed and battery life — began to come along laughable . flux with the fact that the tolerance on netbooks was horrific for maker , as one of their key merchandising points was low price , and their fate was seal .
AcerAsus
Daily Newsletter
Get the good tech , science , and culture news in your inbox day by day .
news program from the hereafter , extradite to your present .
You May Also Like
