Comments on: 2010 the year of high resolution netbooks?

By: Chris Guthrie

Chris Guthrie — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:38:30 +0000

Yah, I would be interested to see battery life tests between an HP Mini 210 and an HP Mini 210 HD just to see how much of an effect it has on it.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:54:34 +0000

I’m all for 10-inch sized 1366 x 768 displays. I only say that now after going through several netbooks with these displays, but I was kind of opposed to them when I had no hands on experience, especially after using a Sony Vaio P (that’s a different beast all together though)

I thought it’d wreck havoc on my eyes as text is quite small but you can easily zoom in on web pages or increase fonts in Windows to get around this. Only real disadvantage is less battery life as the screen will guzzle more battery life.

By: Ed Metric

Ed Metric — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:38:19 +0000

I looked hard at the Sony W but passed even though it is a very attractive netbook. Don’t think I need the ION or high resolution screens so I’ll be passing on those. I still favor the smaller 9″ and 10″ netbooks. I saw an Asus 900 and an Asus 1000HE on sale at a department store today. I used a 900 for a week last month and thought it was a good small sized netbook.

High resolution and ION will obviously have a niche in the netbook market. The larger 11.x sizes will have a following too. Acer is claiming the price conscious netbook market in Europe. Maybe there will be an up-sell of hi-res in the USA but the lower cost netbook won the December netbook prize.

By: AS147

AS147 — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 05:58:46 +0000

Absolutely, it is one of the few things holding back mass adoption in our company as replacements for more than 25% of our more expensive laptops. The other hold up was a larger screen and the minimum size preference seems to be 11″