Tesco cocks up with Dell 12 incher

Davey Winder
Friday, 12 September 2008 20:10

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Making more sense on the netbook specs front, is the 40GB hard drive and Ubuntu Operating System, the 1GB of RAM and the claimed 1.2kg weight.

The pricing is right as well, UKP £299 all in.

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...