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Apple`s Lack of a Netbook Slowing Sales, Reports Indicate

Apple competitors HP, Dell and Acer pull away from Apple as a down economy makes netbooks, smaller, less expensive notebooks more attractive to consumers. Apple has repeatedly stated it has no interest in the netbook market.

Reports from research firms Gartner, Inc. and IDC show
Apple, Inc., the company whose products are synonymous with style and
substance at a price lagging behind its less sophisticated, but far less expensive,
competitors Hewlett-Packard (HP), Dell and Toshiba. This weeks report fr…


Apple`s Lack of a Netbook Slowing Sales, Reports Indicate

Apple competitors HP, Dell and Acer pull away from Apple as a down economy makes netbooks smaller, less expensive notebooks more attractive to consumers. Apple has repeatedly stated it has no interest in the netbook market.

Reports from research firms Gartner and IDC show
Apple, the company whose products are synonymous with style and
substance at a price lagging behind its less sophisticated, but far less expensive,
competitors Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Toshiba. This weeks report from IDC
projected…


Chrome OS Can’t Compete with Microsoft Windows—Yet

News Analysis: Chrome OS doesn’t have what it takes to compete with Windows yet. But could it happen over time? Possibly, but a lot of software development has to take place before Chrome OS will be considered a major player in the business world.
– Google’s Chrome
OS is being heralded as the next big thing in the operating system space. Google
is saying Chrome OS is the next quot;logical step quot; for operating systems.
It plans to bring its technology to netbooks by 2010, although Acer and
Hewlett-Packard hope to have Chrome
OS on thei…


HP, Acer Developing Google Chrome OS Netbooks, Schmidt Says

HP and Acer netbooks running Googles new Chrome OS could be available as soon as this year, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt announced at the annual Allen Co. conference. Chrome OS may give Schmidt reason to leave Apples board, but he declined to acknowledge Microsoft as a competitor.
– Netbooks running Chrome OS, Googles newly announced operating system, may
be available later this year, according to a report from Reuters, which
quoted Google chief executive Eric Schmidt at the Allen amp; Co. media and
technology conference in Sun Valley, Idaho,
on July 9.

“Everybody wev…