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Commentary: Tablet PCs at a crossroads
Digitimes
According to the latest quotes from OEMs, the price of assembling a netbook in 2010 was US$240-250, but is now down to US$180-200. On the other hand, quotes for assembling the hottest tablet PCs are at least US$320-340, stimulating component suppliers …
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Netbooks Losing Touch as Consumers Turn to Tablets
Jakarta Globe
“Netbooks were meant to be smaller versions of notebook computers, but when the tablet came along, they just couldn’t compete,” he said. “I guess people will always prefer tablets to netbooks in terms of practicality.” For Joedast Sakti, an advertising …
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Toshiba Thrive tablet with Android 3.1 ships in July, starts at $429
Engadget
Then again, Tosh was late to the netbook market and served up one of the best minis of all time, and few other tabletlet you swap out the battery, so we’ll just have to reserve judgment until we get one of these bad boys in to review.
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Tablet makers pull back on plans
TechEye
Beancounters at JP Morgan have noticed that tablet makers are pulling back on their plans to build the keyboardless netbooks. A new investor report from JP Morgan said that tablet makers have reduced their build plans after receiving an "early dose of …
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MeeGo Impressions: Netbook And Tablet
Gizmodo Australia
I had a play with the OS on both netbook and tablet devices, as well as a very quick look at MeeGo on an in-car system. How’s it stacking up against the Androids and Chromebooks of the world? The great news: MeeGo on a netbook was excellent. …
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Netbooks Not Dead As PC Makers Show Off New Models
CIO
But in the next two to three years, that market share will drop down to 10 percent as vendors release new tablets with lower prices. Apple’s iPad 2 is currently priced as low as $499. Even as netbook sales go down, tablet shipments are forecast to …
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Closer look at the ViewSonic ViewPad 7x Honeycomb tablet
Liliputing
Netbook News got a chance to check out the ViewSonic tablet in Taiwan this week and they’ve posted a video of the 0.84 pound tablet in action. You can check it out after the break. It looks like ViewSonic has preloaded the tablet with the SPB Shell …
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Computex 2011: Clevo showcases latest innovations in gaming notebooks
Digitimes
With markets such as educational and industrial where Clevo has the most advantages, the company expects to be able to fend off the assault from its tablet PC competitors. Although most of the first-tier brand vendors are reducing their netbook …
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At Computex, More Than Just Tablets
Wall Street Journal
According to IDC, sales of netbooks nearly tripled in 2009 to 34.4 million unit shipments from 11.6 million, while sales of desktops declined 10% the same year. But with the advent of the tablet craze in 2010, netbook sales increased only 1.3 million …
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AMD expands Fusion family with Z-Series APU for tablets
TechSpot
… but otherwise the Z-01 should perform similar to its netbook counterpart. If that’s the case then AMD’s chip should be faster than any other tablet processor on the market, but it’s not as power friendly and can’t run Android yet. …
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