Comments on: Netbooks: Psion vs. Intel, Round Two

By: Save the Netbooks

Save the Netbooks — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:14:25 +0000

It will become clearer over the course of this year what the netbook class is capable of in terms of reliability, battery life, etc.

Netbook is a portmanteau of Internet + Notebook – it has nothing whatsoever to do with size and indeed internet devices should have as large a screen as practical. Small devices are “subnotebooks” or “ultraportables”.

Anyway I encourage you to join our campaign, even if just by raising awareness of it:

“Save the Netbooks” campaign launched to fight impending trademark threat

The “Save the Netbooks” campaign is fighting the impending trademark threat from Psion Teklogix, who have given until the end of March 2009 to cease using the term citing trademarks relating to a line of products discontinued over 5 years ago.

For more information visit http://www.savethenetbooks.com/.

By: The VAR Guy

The VAR Guy — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:29:25 +0000

Matthorany: Your idea is too logical for you to work in the IT channel.

By: matthorany

matthorany — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:16:57 +0000

How about calling it a laptop? I don’t care how small it is, it’s still a laptop until it either fits in your pocket or on a belt clip. Besides… what is a netbook anyway? If the name suggests that it’s a notebook with net communications capabilities, then I’ve had plenty of netbooks over the years. I used to have a compaq netbook with 32mb of ram and a 1gig hard drive. It was a sweet netbook.

By: aikiwolfie

aikiwolfie — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:52:51 +0000

I call them “stupidly wee computers”. We should all adopt that term and pay me $100 every time D … the acronym SWCs can be used for free p

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:19:39 +0000

I used to think Intel owned the trademark (someone warned me) so I’ve always said “sub-notebook”.

By: Phillip L

Phillip L — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:56:00 +0000

Psion was unsucessful with the netbook concept and format.
They ran away from it and never took the time to understand this piece of the market.

They should walk away from the fight as they have little to to gain at this point. Their core competence is in data collection. All of their efforts to date to move outside of space have met with little sucess. The Netpad and Badger are to prime examples.