Is Intel Killing 12-Inch Displays On Netbooks? 297
HangingChad writes "Dell has retired their 12-inch Intel Atom-powered netbooks, they said today. The official reason — 'It really boils down to this: for a lot of customers, 10-inch displays are the sweet spot for netbooksLarger notebooks require a little more horsepower to be really useful.' Or is the real reason that 12-inch displays on netbooks cut into Intel's more profitable dual-core market and Dell's profit margins on higher-end machines?"
Re:12" = normal machine (Score:5, Funny)
I find that the most important dimension when it comes to whether or not a computer is comfortable or is awkward and annoying when I'm carrying it loose is thickness, not length or width.
Oh-ho! A computer, you say? Is that what the kids are calling it these days? I can read between the lines, mister.
Re:It doesn't matter to the average consumer. (Score:4, Funny)
Yahoo need to pull their asses out of the Stone Age and join the 21st century and learn to build websites. Two years probation or risk being put in a padded room with the rest of them "mistake HTML for a screen publishing language" reject DTPers with only the W3C compendium on the history and purpose of HTML as a medium-independent markup language for company. Periodical flogging with a 300px x 200px flyswat should be part of daily routine.
Re:Microsoft (Score:1, Funny)