Why no 12" Netbooks?

[Jay Vaughan]

Product line separation. If they made a 12" netbook it would cut into  
sales of their laptops ..

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On Aug 19, 2009, at 12:56, "Chris Strellis" <Chris.Strellis at crystalvision.tv 
 > wrote:

> When I look at all those lovely netbooks, they have a 10.1" display as
> this is supposed to be a "sweetspot" in size and form factor.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/nr8cp4
>
> However looking at this, there's a hefty amount of bezel around the
> screen so surely a 12" screen would fit and fit well.
>
> In fact Dell did market one briefly but then dropped it after a month.
> Why?
>
> http://tinyurl.com/9rnwvm
>
> I'm sure as low powered CPUs are used in Netbooks that it takes a  
> little
> more grunt to run the extra res but no THAT much and let's not forget
> we're only browsing and mailing here not playing Crysis or whatever  
> are
> the power hungry games now.
>
> Turns out the Intel doesn't want to lose sales to Dual Core  
> laptops....
> so Intel is protecting its ar$e so customers wanting big screens  
> have to
> buy Intel's larger, more expensive chips - even if they don't need or
> use that extra grunt.
>
> When did a CPU manufacturer decide the total spec on a laptop then?   
> Now
> it would seem.
>
> Cheers
>
> Chris
>
>
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