is the NC10 supremacy about to end?

[miserly]

with the new Acer Aspire AOD150 and Asus 1000HE which are pretty close to the NC in many respects with improved keyboards and battery life? i think so.

the only good news is that samsung will have to respond by reducing the premium it’s been able to charge ($100) relative to the others. though that isn’t much good news to me…

[Cbar]

Although I happily admit I know next to nothing about the new Acer and Asus, part of the appeal of the NC10 to me was it’s specification, the way (silly I know) it looked and the feel of it. After having my NC10 for sometime I now know that the feel of it is matched by it’s build quality, all I’m suggesting is that for me, I would need to see some very good revues from us mere mortals before I could consider jumping ship.

[jez]

Cbar, I think you raise a key point here. As the other manufactuers follow Samsung’s lead we are seeing a bluring on the lines. Maybe next time Acer or Asus will get the head start and it will be Samsung that are playing catch up again.

But what I think we’ll see is a lot of very similar systems where choice will come down to a few personal factors – such as look and style. In many ways like the current laptop market, or televisions, etc.

[Rsaeire]

I agree jez. The netbook category line is being blurred with the new additions from Samsung, Dell, Acer etc and this is taken even further with devices such as the Sony VAIO P.

This year will be a very interesting time for netbooks and the computer industry in general and it will only lead to ever increasing innovation all round.

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