AMD has treated the market for notebooks and ultrathin devices quite differently from Intel. Intel has developed its Atom line of chips specifically for these small-scale devices whilst AMD maintains that they are essentially just tiny notebooks and don't need dedicated chips.
Maybe AMD is correct in a way, as sales show that users buy the netbooks with larger screens (relative to netbook sizes), larger hard-drives and with software capabilities of their notebooks. Linux-based netbooks haven't sold as well as Windows, and low-storage-space SSD netbooks lose out to traditional HDD-based netbooks.
It's clear from popular netbooks then that users aren't buying them just for web browsing and Internet-based cloud applications as they are often marketed for, but instead want netbooks as capable as full-sized notebooks, just smaller.
Written by: James Delahunty @ 14 Mar 2010 18:02
