Asus is selling fewer netbooks because of the iPad

I can't figure out why someone would essentially pay double for an iPad when a Netbook outperforms it on every level imaginable. Faster processing speeds, higher storage capacities, don't require AT&T service, and don't have to pay the high premium for Apple's name.

Someone please tell me what an iPad can do that a Netbook (any brand) cannot already do? With the exception of course being touch screen.

Overpriced toy or not, you have to question why people want an iPad instead of wanting a netbook.

Access to entertainment with these modern tablets with their proprietary software is unsurpassed by any traditional device and that's what many people are looking for, rather than a stuffy computer that forces constraints on you.

I started to knock up a graphical concept for OS XI that operates in a similar way to how iOS offers direct access to what you want without being tethered to information via a browser. A full version of the OS could be implemented in the way user switch is, so you can have the full-blown OS if you need it. for example, why go to the trouble of lading facebook or wikipedia and going to the book mark folder or adding the address when I can click an icon and bang, I'm there, ready to update my status or search an article.

iOS, Windows Phone and Android's way is the future for personal computers, I'm sure of it.

My $200 netbook can smoke an iPad. You can keep your overpriced toy apple.

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Asus is selling fewer netbooks because they already made a ton of more-of-the-same netbook models, and everybody else is doing the same thing too (MSI, Acer, etc).
I think Asus' solution is, wait for it..... 17" netbook!

iPad looks fun, Dell mini running OSX is a real OSX, no AppleStore-only-wonk, full featured, AppleFanApproved, just sayin though.
Don't you worry, co-opting is market trending, so expect an Apple branded macbooklet (that's my registered term) soon...until then, to find yourself, think for yourself,sort of...http://www.mydellmini.com/

This is news?

katalina, i think this article is on tuaw because asus had models that were hackintoshed. you could put mac os x on them and have a mac netbook for just a couple hundred dollars.

Truthfully, the OS is to blame. The netbooks running Linux worked fine. The Asus EEE was pretty good hardware wise, but ran a terrible non-standard distro.

The ones running Ubuntu are much better.

--Sam

in 5 years, i think we'll look back at the netbook trend as the 'recession computer.'

Considering the current market options. thats not too surprising.