netbook

Dell hopes the telephone company will buy computers for you

Alaska Miller ยท 09/04/08 12:20PM

A Citigroup analyst says "netbooks" โ€” cheap mininotebook computers like the Asus Eee โ€” will make up a third of all notebook sales in the future, and the majority of sales in developing nations. Michael Dell pitched his company's NetBook product line as something telcos could offer to customers for free, subsidizing the hardware with monthly subscription fees. [ZDNet]