The crippled $700 netbook. What are they smoking?
Litl LLC is apparently selling a new hardware-crippled netbook for $700. I just want to know what they’re smoking when ultralight laptops with dual-core processors are selling for $400.
Categories: Netbooks
Yes, I just got finished reading this article:
http://cananian.livejournal.com/58744.html
It’s interesting to me from the software development side, so, a new twist in technology designed for web-centric operating systems.
The company, well, it’s too early to call. I give them 12 months.
I went to the website. I read the specs. I read the livejournal. I patiently watched the videos.
I came away with a profound sense of apathy for this product. You could put an old sock on Ebay and SOMEBODY will buy it, so they will have a few takers, but I’d be seriously shocked if they recoup anything approaching the investment they made on this thing.
While I like the design concept and what it tries to offer, the crippling of the device is a bit much. While it is trying to be more flexible in functionality being a single use to a family use computer, it reduces the amount of use it has.
Supposedly though, this device can power a television at full resolution and yet can’t upload photos to the web. I think Palm’s Foleo even had that beat.
@nucrash
The $399 Acer CULV dual-core system has HDMI out and it can drive 1080P. Why would I even buy a crippled Atom system with crappy graphics chipset at $700?
@George Ou
Maybe if it had an Apple Sticker… Newp, not even then.