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byBilestoad ( 60385 ) writes:
Funny that Apple sell so many retina MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs when they're the most expensive machines you can buy in those form factors. Could it be that a race to the bottom, cutting corners to reduce costs, ISN'T what people want? What happened with Netbooks again?
byNursie ( 632944 ) writes:
Could it be that a race to the bottom, cutting corners to reduce costs, ISN'T what people want? What happened with Netbooks again?
Except isn't this article saying that they're too expensve and not selling?
And what happened to netbooks is that they got more expensive and the specs stayed the same for multiple years. The manufacturers started adding bells and whistles and pushed the price up into the region of low end (but much more capable) laptops. Maybe they would have been a bigger success if they had foc
byAnonymous Coward writes:
I question that the reason they aren't selling is that they're too expensive. I say it's because they're full of compromise, crapware and everyone knows they are just copies of the machine they really want.
byNursie ( 632944 ) writes:
Well that sort of plays into what I meant. Instead of differentiating themselves by being damn small and damn cheap, they got bigger and more expensive until the point that low-end laptops became more appealing.
I loved the 9 inch models, which all but disappeared.
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