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You have the entire Libretto line of laptops from Toshiba as well as Fujitsu's Lifebook series which were all tiny. NEC had their own as well as Sony and most other manufacturers around at the time.
If anything, netbooks showed what was already known = People want tiny computers. The price of netbooks allowed more people to have the desired tiny, mostly. But the demographic for ultraportables and 'netbooks' are pretty different and probably don't overlap much. People that want a netbook form factor with a netbook price will buy a netbook. If they cant, they will get a cheap fullsized laptop. People that want netbook form factor, or smaller, with a mind for performance and do not mind paying more, will continue buying the better options. I run into this, personally, helping out people with purchase decisions.
ah, OK. Still weird.Windows XP SP3 Lite Netbook Edition would be the shortest name I've searched . . .. . . my CD requires two lines to say: Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition for Ultra-Low Cost PCs SP3 :
IIRC, the HP Mini 1xxx and 3xx forums shortened that mouthful to XPh3, which makes a world of sense.
'eh, maybe a little bit. I'd venture to say the netbook didn't impact this much at all as tiny laptops had been around for a LOOOOONG time prior. I have a Toshiba Portege 3110ct from 1999 with a p2-300mhz/192mb ram, 10" LCD, etc, which is ridiculously thin and tiny, even by today's standards. Demand for extremely portable laptops has been around since laptops were invented. The problem was cramming high-end tech into small form factors and, having managed that, powering it for any length of time. My Portege gets 2-3 hours per charge.
You have the entire Libretto line of laptops from Toshiba as well as Fujitsu's Lifebook series which were all tiny. NEC had their own as well as Sony and most other manufacturers around at the time.
If anything, netbooks showed what was already known = People want tiny computers. The price of netbooks allowed more people to have the desired tiny, mostly. But the demographic for ultraportables and 'netbooks' are pretty different and probably don't overlap much. People that want a netbook form factor with a netbook price will buy a netbook. If they cant, they will get a cheap fullsized laptop. People that want netbook form factor, or smaller, with a mind for performance and do not mind paying more, will continue buying the better options. I run into this, personally, helping out people with purchase decisions.