Asus Takes Another Stab at Revolutionizing Netbook Market 162
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from the betting-on-the-design-team dept.
from the betting-on-the-design-team dept.
Perhaps most well known for their netbook innovations with the Eee PC, Asus is at it again with their latest rollout at CeBIT Germany. The "Waveface Light," a new concept laptop, can be used as a conventional laptop or converted to a tablet by removing the keyboard and opening it to a completely flat position. Sounds like either a stroke of genius or a "small widget broke and now it's worthless" design issue.
Re:You can't really revolutionise (well..) (Score:1, Funny)
In response I can see Apple introducing: the iSheet....
Casper would claim prior art.
. . . not that that ever stopped Apple or the USPTO before.
Re:Operating system (Score:2, Funny)
I believe this has been attempted many times in the past, but when the users fire up their netbooks a few times only to find that everything still *just works*, and that there's no malware, there are no viruses, no unpatched or delay-patched exploits, they freak and ask for their *windows* back.
Being users finally "in control" of their systems only speeds up their return to lemminghood.
The revolution happened long ago - it's the self-professed Windows experts who've become immovable.
cheers,
Re:Indeed. (Score:3, Funny)
Wow. There's a gamer who really loves Civ IV.
Re:Indeed. (Score:3, Funny)
Net books are designed to be just powerful enough to surf the inter net . If you make them more powerful, they are no longer netbooks. What you are asking for is akin to wanting to meet a 5' 6" midget.