Comments on: Eee PC, Acer Aspire top netbooks in Japan

By: cheap computers

cheap computers — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:57:54 +0000

It’s frankly not appreciably bigger than most netbooks, and is good enough to work as my only personal computer.

By: Ken Y-N

Ken Y-N — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:04:12 +0000

I used to be extremely excited about the new Sharp NetWalker.

…and then?

By: cheap computers

cheap computers — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:39:33 +0000

I used to be extremely excited about the new Sharp NetWalker.

By: Ken Y-N

Ken Y-N — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:55:05 +0000

Janne, yet, the Let’s Notes are excellent beasts, but they are four or five times the price of an Acer Asprire One or Eee PC! I’m not a fan of the R myself; I use a T, A4 sized, at work. In June I was going through US customs and they looked at the Let’s Note and asked why I didn’t have the battery in it, as it was lighter than they expected!

If I was getting a notebook for a main PC, the Panasonic would be top of my list, but I’m just after a cheap keyboard to hammer translations etc out on the train.

By: Janne

Janne — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:27:05 +0000

I use a Panasonic Let’s Note R-series laptop, and have for the past five years (I’m on my second). It’s frankly not appreciably bigger than most netbooks, and is good enough to work as my only personal computer. It’s probably time to upgrade again next winter or the following spring.

We’ll see what the netbooks can do by then, but whatever I get I must be able to use it as my main machine. My hope is not so much that netbooks have gotten good enough for that, but that competition from them will push down the price on whatever R model Panasonic will be offering then.