Will netbooks lose to tablets?

Netbooks or Tablets?

  • Netbooks

    Votes: 11 28.2%

  • Tablets

    Votes: 9 23.1%

  • There's room for both

    Votes: 19 48.7%
  • Total voters
    39
I don't think that tablets will replace netbooks in the near term.

I have a Asus EEE 1000HE with a 9.5 hour battery life (reality=6hours), 320GB 7200rpm drive, 2GB RAM, Atom N280, 10.1" screen, Windows 7 HP.

The only things that I would like is a 1366*768 screen (is available in new ASUS Eee PC 1005PR-PU17), and maybe built-in 3G, but a USB dongle is OK. My netbook only has 2.4GHz N wifi, would like 5GHz N wifi. I may just upgrade the wifi card.

In the short term the tablets can't compete, but we will see what new technology brings.

My netbook runs MS Office 2007, CS4, video ripping, editing, etc, etc. Sometimes a bit slow, but the convenience is great - it goes everywhere I go.
 
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I bought a friend of mine an HP 311 on special, it has nVidia ION graphics with Atom processor, DDR3 RAM, and 1366x768 screen. It runs Windows 7, it can play HD movies, it's thin, it's really lovely.

That said, compared to an iPad it feels clunky and slow and the screen quality difference really shows. It can't do everything the netbook can but time is a great leveler with technology. Within a few years I think Tablets will take over.
 
All Netbooks will be Tablets in a couple years time... The cost difference is very little and the performance is the same... it would be silly not to buy a tablet in future...

The usability is the same... keyboard when you want... touch when you want... it is not an either or issue... it will be both...
 
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