Comments on: Apple and the netbook question

By: Mike - Thames Valley

Mike - Thames Valley — Mon, 04 May 2009 08:36:29 +0000

I have always fancied a mac, but when they are twice the price of a pc I have never been able to justify buying one. I have recently had some success with Linux on an old laptop & discovered that you can put OSX on a netbook via the “hackintosh” community. I now have an MSI (Advent 4211) netbook running OSX & am becoming a convert. Might be a way to gain more customers like me Apple ?

By: Nikkei 225

Nikkei 225 — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:25:44 +0000

I think my netbook is a blessing, especially on the road, it has 6 hours plus battery life, it’s less than a kilo, it’s fast and it’s cheap. I think Apple makes a mistake by neglecting this market, a year ago you hardly saw any netbooks and now you see them everywhere.

By: Berfie

Berfie — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:04:40 +0000

Well well, the touch,. Considering it to be your ‘best’to answer the netbook segment product, I have killed 3 in a space of 1 year due to your hardware problems, I gotta squint my eyes to view basic websites, can’t play my simple Football Manager on it, let alone some says flash games, oh, and not forgetting hanging device as well to boot. Does the almost same or more expensive price-tag for your device counts when I can have 160GB of storage space with a netbook? Sad to me.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:36:14 +0000

I am a student and have my laptop on me all the time for notes in class.I have a macbook right now and I’d rather go to a netbook like a HP Mini or Dell’s equivalent. They are small, portable devices great for school. I can’t take notes on a iPhone faster than a netbook.

Cook’s opinion that netbooks are junk is ridiculuos, people who want more power than an iPhone are going to go for a netbook. Apple is being a “high and mighty” coy in the sense that they have already looked at it and have something in the works. The time isn’t right to release the word on the street.

By: Rick Faaberg

Rick Faaberg — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:50:57 +0000

Adobe is working on flash player for iphone/itouch

By: finid

finid — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 05:32:24 +0000

“… i can do almost anything i do on my macbook pro – the biggest thing i can’t is play flash videos.”

You should be able to play flash videos on the Palm Pre. Stay tuned!

By: chris b

chris b — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:56:29 +0000

apple has a netbook already – it’s called the iphone ! as i sit with only one arm freely available three days a week on dialysis, i can do almost anything i do on my macbook pro – the biggest thing i can’t is play flash videos.

By: Jabberwolf

Jabberwolf — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:44:06 +0000

HAHA!

Sure and when the specs, processing power, memory, features, weight, and twice the battery life as a mac book air are compared – it’s a piece of junk.

So basically when you pay 1800 for the same features as a netbook, its not a piece if junk?!

Talk about envy…
Tim cook could not possibly more hypocritical!