AMD CEO: Netbooks will go away
Advanced Micro Devices CEO said Thursday that netbooks will eventually disappear.
The lightweight HP Pavilion dv2, which uses the AMD Neo processor, is marketed as a notebook(Credit: Hewlett-Packard)
"The distinction between what is a Netbook and what is a notebook is going to go away," said Dirk Meyer, AMD's chief executive officer.
"There will be a continuum of price points and form factors," he said.
"Given the way Netbooks are configured today, consumers who want a notebook at those kind of (low) price points have to compromise and as a result don't enjoy a full PC experience, particularly around the graphics and media capability of the machine," Meyer said. "And likewise people who wanted a thin and light machine had to pay a lot of money, typically well over a thousand dollars."
Upcoming inexpensive ulrathin notebooks will meet the need for a small, thin, lightweight laptop that is more powerful than a Netbook, Meyer said.
