by Doug Aamoth on October 14, 2008
Tags: apple, netbooks
When asked today about the possibility of an Apple netbook, Steve Careers explained one thing for the result of, “The marketplace is just acquiring started out – we’ll see the way it goes.”
Huh? Here’s how the netbook market’s going, Steve: pretty much each major pc business has a netbook however you. Apple’s a prime candidate for the netbook, too. Know why? Due to the fact it is just about the sole company that might get away with promoting it for properly above $500. I wager Apple could sell a netbook for a minimum of $600 or even more.
So why ought to Apple, specifically,
Office 2010 Pro, get into netbooks?
1. It will get individuals in the door at a reduced price tag point. Remember the Mac Mini? The Mac Mini’s sole purpose would be to get men and women that are terrified off by Apple’s reasonably large costs into the game. But there is a problem; nobody genuinely buys desktops any far more — especially not novice and/or basic pc users. Everyone buys laptops now.
At $999+,
Office 2010 Product Key, acquiring into an Apple laptop is a bit daunting for most individuals. But offer the Apple portable computing experience at near Mac Mini rates,
Windows 7 Starter, and see what happens. There is no big danger in offering an Apple netbook at $600 or more, so long as the next minimum expensive option remains at $999. PC notebook manufacturers don’t have that same luxury. You can’t price tag netbooks higher than your cheapest notebooks.
2. Netbooks are big on the whole alternative operating system thing. Regular people who would normally buy Windows-based computers are buying Linux-based netbooks without ever having used Linux before. It’s an even shorter leap to OS X. I mean, you already own an iPod, right? I use a PC for day-to-day stuff but I’d buy a Mac netbook for traveling simply because I know it’d be well-built, fast, and great for surfing the web.
“Regular” people would probably do the same thing. They’d say, “Oh, this doesn’t have Windows but a minimum of I’ve heard of Apple and I like how it looks.” Plenty of individuals have at the very least used a Mac before, too, even if they usually use Windows.
3. It’s time for Apple to put out another small-ish laptop. No matter how light the MacBook Air will get,
Office Pro 2010, some men and women still want a computer that’s dimensionally small and lightweight. Howsabout a 10-inch screen? Even bring back the 12-inch screens. I saw an old 12-inch iBook G4 on the train the other week and did a double-take. They just don’t make ‘em like that any a lot more.
4. The iPhone and iPod Touch desperately need to be integrated with something substantial. I’m not saying to go the RedFly or Palm Folio (R.I.P.) route and make the netbook useless on its own, but maybe make the netbook the one device that lets you easily tether your iPhone or perhaps include pre-set wireless synchronization or something. I’m also a huge fan of the idea of letting the iPhone/iPod Touch serve as the trackpad for the device,
Office Professional, but you want to make the netbook so that men and women can buy it without having to own the other devices.
5. Make the decision easy for everyone by giving it a multi-touch screen like the one on the iPhone/iPod Touch and a good keyboard like the one on the MacBooks. Individuals complain relentlessly about the trackpads, mouse buttons, and keyboards on today’s currently available netbooks. It might take an innovator like Apple to fix that problem.
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