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Information Technology News Tesco cocks up with Dell 12 incher
Information Technology News Tesco cocks up with Dell 12 incher | Tesco cocks up with Dell 12 incher |
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| by Davey Winder | |
| Saturday, 13 September 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 2 Making more sense on the netbook specs front, is the 40GB
hard drive and Ubuntu Operating System, the 1GB of RAM and the claimed
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What makes no sense at all, as far as I am concerned, is a netbook that size? I mean, who really wants 12 inches worth of kit when the whole point of a netbook is to strip back the notebook to its basics? Even the 10 inch netbooks are too big, in my opinion. A netbook should be 8.9 inches and no more. Yes there are sacrifices in terms of keyboard size, but you just cannot carry a 12 incher around with you in the same way. From the business perspective, marketing something packing 12 inches as a netbook makes absolutely no sense at all. Unless it is just grabbing the headline attention with the netbook brand. A display this size places it firmly in the sub-notebook category and opens up far wider competition. Still, whatever the arguments, whatever happened with the Tesco advert being published, at least we know now there will be a new Dell appearing in October. The timing of the forthcoming Dell press launch, and the fact that Tesco says 'available week commencing 6th October' tend to suggest that... |
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