Hi, It is very revolutionary information and I may hope as the prises of leftob is becoming cheaper, obviously prises of netbooks will become lower. Regards, Rakesh.
On 7/18/08, Kiran Kaja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had a look at one of these machines in the mall the other day. The > keyboard is obviously very small but on first look, it looks as if it is > manageable . The model displayed there had a 4GB SSD and 2GB RAM and runs on > Linux. The vendor claims Windows can be installed. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sudhir R > (NeSTIT) > Sent: Friday, 18 July 2008 9:34 AM > To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in > Subject: [AI] Low Cost Netbooks now available... > > Hi folks ! > > Pasting below an interesting article by Kiruba Shankar in rediff.com. > > The question is, how accessible are these new contraptions - especially from > the keyboard ergonomics point of view ? > > Rgds > > RS > -- > July 17, 2008 09:33 IST > Quite a few years ago, I met this CEO who had this unbelievably small > laptop. After ogling at it for a while, I enquired its price. > > With a tinge of pride, he said its an Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) and he paid 1.5 > lakhs for it. I gulped and looked at it with even more awe. Ever since, I > had > a mental note that the smaller the laptop gets, the more expensive it > becomes. > > That myth got shattered to smithereens when I recently got to look at the > ASUS EeePC, a tiny laptop that would smugly sit on your outstretched palm. > It > weighed less than 1 kg. What really hit me hard was its price. A mere > Rs.15,500. It completely changed my perception of small laptops. > > The guy at the counter pulled out six pieces with different colors, light > green, baby pink, red, navy blue, pearl white and black. My immediate > reaction > was to pick a green one for my wife and a pink one for my 6-year-old > daughter. The minute I realised this impulse buying thought, I knew these > small laptops, > called 'Netbooks' are going to revolutionize the laptop industry. > > Netbooks are simple, inexpensive, compact mobile devices that can be used > for surfing the Internet, emailing, working on basic office applications, > listening > to music and even making Skype video phone calls. > > In my opinion, these Netbooks are perfect for traveling businesses folks. > Let's face it, we businessmen use our expensive, bulky laptops as a giant > word > processing surfing machines. Besises they give us shoulder aches from > lugging them around. > > Really, most of our laptops are over-powered for our use. It's like using a > fire-engine to extinguish cigarettes. These Netbooks' relative high > functionality > at low cost is good value for money, especially for small businessmen. > What's more, they are as good looking as those expensive Rs 1 lakh UMPCs. In > other > words, they'd still impress folks on the other side of the boardroom table. > > It's no wonder that these Netbooks are selling like hot cakes. At the > recently concluded Computex exhibition in Taiwan, the Netbooks were all the > rage and > they hogged the biggest headlines. > > Many major computer manufacturers like ASUS, Acer, HP, Dell have come up > with their own range of low-cost Netbooks that pack a punch. They feature > shock > proof Solid State Drives, Super Hybrid Engine Technology, WiFi, Integrated > Webcam and the likes. Now, why should you bother? Take storage for example. > > These netbooks use SSDs which are not only sturdier than traditional hard > drives but produces less heat, much quieter and sucks less power which means > more > battery life. These new breed of Netbooks will definitely cannibalize the > traditional laptop market. This is already rattling the industry and > everyone > is falling over themselves in reducing prices to stay alive in this > cut-throat market. > > The cost of the Netbooks currently range from Rs.15,000 to Rs.23,000 and > will come down further. One of the main reasons for such low prices is > because > of low cost chips from Intel, Via, AMD and Nvidia. The growth of these > Netbooks are staggering and in a price conscious market like India, the > sales will > be massive. > > The recommended Netbooks are the ASUS EeePC 900, Acer Aspire One and the MSI > Wind. > > The author is CEO of Business Blogging and Founder Director of F5ive > Technologies. > Powered by > Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: > http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm > Registration is now open! > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: > http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm > Registration is now open! > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Registration is now open! 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