Meet:Mobility Podast 69 – Tablet Honey, Netbook Silicon
Meet:Mobility Podcast 69 is now available.
It’s show number 69 on 6th May 2011. Back after a short break so we’ve go plenty to talk about including – Netbook CPUs. Fusion Vs Atom. What platform should you choose? Plus We’ll also also talk at length about Honeycomb tablets.
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On the Podcast:
JKK from JKKmobile – @jkkmobile on Twitter
Chippy from Carrypad- @Chippy on Twitter
Sascha Pallenberg from Netbooknews – @sascha_p on Twitter
Netbooks
- Cedar Trail – Cedar Trail Summary, Architecture, Features.
- .Cedar Trail Atom N2600 and N2800 SKUs detailed
- AMD C-60. Turbo – Turbo to 1.33Ghz – T-50 low-power.
- N570 now.
- Quiet until Q4.
- Gives AMD a chance?
- Microsoft netbook license sales down.
- Choice of platform
Tablets
- Sascha – Xoom vs Transformer vs A500 vs Transformer
- Honeycomb on 7” – Iconia Tab A100/101. Galaxy Tab 8.9
- Shortages on Asus Transformer
- Amazon tablet – Lets talk about the potential! (media delivery)
- Oaktrail. Timescales. (Viewsonic, Viliv, Fujitsu, ECS)
Events
- Meego Conf
- Computex
Hi guys. Enjoyed the podcast. Great summary. I think you guys should if somehow possible, but take calls also.
Couple of my points.
About the M$ report that large decline of the Win Starter sales, ie netbooks. This is a red herring. Why? The premium 11 and 12 inch premium netbooks are for a lot us, just that. Netbooks. I don’t care about what was a netbook form factor. We can debate definition of netbook. To each his own. Fact? Yeah netbooks are dying right? Afterall where did the 7 inch and 9 inchers go? Bah. Netbooks evolved for most of us. Perhaps knowing too much is actually counter productive at some point. The marketplace is speaking.
Sadly I also must say to counter Sasha and his AMD plea, since when does netbooknews cover netbooks? Rather is “netbook” mentioned 1 word out of about 100 stories on your site?
I won’t rant too much here. Been there done that. In general for me, it’s a real letdown that the netbook category has evolved into some premium and less “entry” levels, but those covering them fail to adapt their categorization of netbooks. You guys want to get into “ultraportable” this when in fact, when you talk ultraportable you are TALKING ABOUT NETBOOKS. Sure sure 11 and 12 inch form factors can’t possible be netbooks. Ok, whatever.
My point is, this talk from M$ and others about the dying netbooks is overblown. It’s simply a matter of people not knowing their own definition of netbook. Afterall, what the hell is dying? The portable secondary laptops named… netbooks?