Thursday, October 28, 2010

"Tablets are cannibalizing Netbooks"..says Intel's newly launched news site called Free Press



Reports of Netbook’s Death Greatly Exaggerated 


Intel is known for its innovations and sudden unique decisions that makes everyone ponder "What are they Upto?..
Before anyone can figure out Intel's motive behind acquiring Mcafee, it has come out with another surprise.Intel now entered the media market by launching a news website called "Free Press". The news site is hosted and published by Intel. Though it was a surprise but the lead story gives a solid indication of the kind of aggressive PR lifting it is going to do in the future. The lead topic in the site starts off with " Reports of Netbook’s Death Greatly Exaggerated, Experts Say
It tries to make people understand the difference between Tablets and Netbooks. The point it  highlights is quite right. The amount of work that you can do in a netbook is much more than a tablet. A tablet can basically be used only to browse the internet when you are travelling. If you are looking for business work, good battery life and apps while travelling then tablet is absolutely not the right device, at least till date. Yes in the future Tablets will take over Netbooks in a similar way as Netbooks had taken over notebooks but its not quite there yet. 





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