Intel, which helped create the market for low-cost notebooks or netbooks with its Atom processors, is seeing a shift in the types of people interested in buying these types of laptops. Intel executives say they believe people are buying netbooks as secondary computing devices or as notebooks for schoolchildren.
– SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) Intel Corp said on Wednesday it no longer
expects netbooks to appeal to first-time computer buyers, but sees
continued sales of the ultra-portable laptops as a secondary machine or
a durable option for kids.
quot;I don’t think first-time buyers are going to buy netbooks,…