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Asus, Acer kill off netbooks as Chromebook tops popularity chart on Amazon

Discussion in 'TechSpot News and Comments' started by Jos, Jan 3, 2013.

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  1. Jos TechSpot Staff Posts: 1,668   +21

    Once the rising stars of the personal computing industry, netbooks have fallen out of grace in the last few years, replaced in consumer's hearts by tablets or more powerful ultra-slim laptops. Samsung, Dell and Toshiba already walked out of this...

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    Jos, Jan 3, 2013
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  2. SNGX1275 TS Special Forces Posts: 11,891   +117

    I think a large portion of them dying is that Windows 8 won't work on them out of the box because most have 1024x600 resolution which is too low. You can edit the registry's Display1_DownScalingSupported to get it to work, but most people aren't going to do that. The thing is, it is a completely bs and artificial limitation, MS just did it because they are pushing their Surface.
    SNGX1275, Jan 3, 2013
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  3. Polaco Newcomer, in training

    Really Chromebook tops popularity? Who on earth buys a Chromebook? One of the useless devices ever seen!
    Polaco, Jan 4, 2013
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  4. Guest

    This is a shame, I've always been a fan of Netbooks. infact, the only laptops (altho only 2) I've owned have been netbooks. the idea being high performance gaming on my power-hungry desktop, everything else on low power netbook.
    Guest, Jan 7, 2013
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