[QUOTE="General_X"]And I ask you, what functionality can the Surface Pro do that the Netbook cannot, and if the only thing is touch screen and higher resolution for twice the price color me unimpressed.XaosII
Well for starters: actually write notes. I have an HP Touchsmart tm2t convertible laptop. Since i've purchased it, i no longer need to carry arund notebooks for school, including my math and engineering classes - subjects that are normally impossible to simply type up notes with. The Wacom digitizer isn't like those crappy touch stylus for the iPad; They are magnetic and can support hundreds of levels of pressure sensitivity.
And of course, especially when used as writing surface, an IPS screen is a must-have given the far more extreme viewing angle.
It has an i5 CPU so it can actually run far more content creation programs than that dinky little C-60 ever could. A C-60 chokes up under heavy flash playback, and i would know, i use it to run my file server. Photoshop, Visual Studio, and other programs of the like? Forget it.
Unless your argument is "since it runs the internet, why would anyone buy a laptop over $300," then im pretty sure you know the value of a high performance laptop. And if that *is* your argument, then its pretty dumb.
In any kind of performance or usability testing, a Surface Pro would run circles around a netbook.
I think we have two different ideas of mobility computing and that's fine. Most of my mobile needs are best served by a web browsing machine, since if I have to do anything heavy I do it on my desktop which is far more competent than ANY mobile device. But my needs aren't the same as others. I took all my notes by hand in College because I knew I'd be too distracted by the internet to pay attention during lecture, and I never really NEEDED to do anything on the go that my desktop couldn't do at home (rendering, photoshop, and such). I've played around with my mom's netbook (an old one from like 2008) and it does everything I'd really need an ultra-mobile device to do, I've never NEEDED to run Photoshop on a $900 tablet, my $600 laptop does that much better. Like I said before in my edited post, I can't see very many people NEEDING the abilities of the Surface Pro when a netbook can offer the same functionality that most people would use for half the price (Internet browsing, content consumption, word processing). The Surface Pro is an interesting niche device I'll give you that, and it's capabilities in it's form factor are fairly impressive. But I highly question its usefulness for the general population.
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