Intel aims to shape netbook evolution - PC World
June 5, 2009
Intel has definite ideas about how it wants small laptops based on its Atom processors to evolve, but a senior company executive readily concedes that the market -- in the form of consumers and companies that buy these machines -- will ultimately decide what happens next with these devices.
When hardware makers build a small laptop, or netbook, based on the Atom netbook platform, they are generally bound by constraints that limit certain specifications, such as a screen size that doesn't exceed 10.2 inches. These guidelines are meant to segment the laptop market and define a product category that is different from mainstream laptops...
Intel has definite ideas about how it wants small laptops based on its Atom processors to evolve, but a senior company executive readily concedes that the market -- in the form of consumers and companies that buy these machines -- will ultimately decide what happens next with these devices.
When hardware makers build a small laptop, or netbook, based on the Atom netbook platform, they are generally bound by constraints that limit certain specifications, such as a screen size that doesn't exceed 10.2 inches. These guidelines are meant to segment the laptop market and define a product category that is different from mainstream laptops...
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