It's always refreshing when a lateral-thinking-inspired product revolutionizes a market. And that's partly what makes the netbook computer so interesting. Netbooks are growing up fast, and both market-leader Acer and its original maker Asus have big plans for the tiny PCs this year.
Asus, of course, gave the world its first real netbook, the Eee PC 701. It embodied all the now iconic netbook features in one package: Linux OS, small screen, Intel Atom processor, small form-factor and cheap-as-chips pricing. Now it's a year later, and the technology has moved on, so Asus has announced that it will release another genre-stretching Eee PC that has an 11.6-inch display. Asus CEO Jerry Shen even thinks that Eees with displays of that size will end up being around 30% of the netbooks his company sells this year.
Asus, of course, gave the world its first real netbook, the Eee PC 701. It embodied all the now iconic netbook features in one package: Linux OS, small screen, Intel Atom processor, small form-factor and cheap-as-chips pricing. Now it's a year later, and the technology has moved on, so Asus has announced that it will release another genre-stretching Eee PC that has an 11.6-inch display. Asus CEO Jerry Shen even thinks that Eees with displays of that size will end up being around 30% of the netbooks his company sells this year.
It's a response to the news that Acer, which currently sells more netbooks than anyone else, will also be releasing an 11.6-incher soon. That machine, the Acer One 751, is due to have a full-size laptop keyboard, a 1366 x 768-pixel screen and cost around $500.
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