Netbook storm

I myself cannot believe that this blog has been on hold for so long.

In late 2007, ASUS released the EeePC. Then the world suddenly realized the potential of a cheap mobile internet access notebook. Intel invented the term Netbook for their own concept notebook but this term was soon borrowed to cover EeePC and its competitors.

It is interesting that EeePC put great pressure on the demand of XP again (as some people do successfully migrate to GNU/linux but most do not). It also put great pressure on high end some size, light weight notebook PC. People make the message clear: I need to travel and access internet and do the general work only, not sophisticated power machine. This also accelerates the trend of pushing processing power to service provider and the so-called cloud computing.

There are more to explore later.