Via MobileMag:
“LCD panel makers will be producing a series of 11.6-inch panels this year and netbook manufacturers will be snatching up a bunch of these to plunk into their latest mobile computing solutions. This 11.6-inch size is in addition to the existing 7-inch, 8-inch, 8.9-inch, 10.1-inch, and 12.1-inch models that already populate the industry.”
The netbook craze hit in 2007 with the original 7-inch screen and all that came with it. Since then, the netbook has grown up literally and figuratively. Windows runs native on today’s netbooks when in the past it was Linux or nothing. 7-inch netbooks gave way to 8-inch and so on and so forth. Apple claims that the iPhone is “netbookish” enough for them even though by most standards it’s a cell phone.
Where do manufacturers draw the line?
How big will the netbook get before we start calling it a notebook again?
When do price and size comparisons stop coinciding?
Sometimes, I think the only thing that make a netbook differ from a notebook, is the lack of optical driver/writer …