You Should Draw your Attention to Notebooks the New SUVs, MIDs = Segways

Everyone knows that bodes well for the PC industry. I happened to visit a sectional meeting on netbooks at Frost & Sullivan's Go Mobile conference in San Franciso. While the Q&A portion I threw doubt upon Intel's Pankaj Kedia (director of the company's global ecosystems program for mobile Internet devices) over his confirmation that netbook sales weren't knocking down notebooks to a considerable standard. In his tern Kedia pointed in any case more powerful notebooks will have its customers and that there would always be a market for them, moreover he added that netbooks are more of a PC companion. Then he made an analogy that I think fell flat.

As far as Kedia is concern notebooks can be easily compared with the car market the same as extraordinary capacity like BMW, Porsche, and Jaguar will likely always be there for those who demand more performance capability and impressive quality. Personally I'm sure that cannibalization is only going to increase the speed. Probably, the case is for Intel and its partners is that netbooks are quickly intergrading in the eyes of buyers beyond a supplementary device. And "real" notebooks are in danger of becoming the SUVs of the PC industry.

Intel's ULV processor will sooner help amalgamate the gap between netbooks and notebooks. He added that the CPU will offer two to four times the performance capability of Atom, and we've already said notebooks like the MSI X340 that will use this platform. $899 is the initial estimated cost of that device. That's a heck of a lot less than 13-inch notebooks like the $1,799 MacBook Air, but still a lot more expensive than 12-inch netbooks like the Samsung NC20 ($549 at Newegg).

The premeditated task for Intel and its partners will be to persuade consumers that the premium for ULV is worth it, respective to both upstart CPUs like the Via Nano and Atom. The following questions are quite reasonable what can't you do with ULV versus an even more powerful Core 2 Duo notebook and what will you be able to do with that 2X to 4X better performance?Brett Berg, a major superintendent at Samsung who also sat on the panel, was only half joking when he asked if Intel could lower the price on ULV CPUs.

Nevertheless more serious difficulties could be validating mobile Internet devices in a smart phone world. Taking no into consideration our skepticism-and that of many others in the industry- Intel greatly believes in the future of MIDs, and Pankaj make an effort to contradistinguish between MIDs and netbooks and the proprietory markets the latter could enter (from GPS and portable media players to gaming devices.)

Yesterday, Navigon appeared from the North American market for GPS. Garmin is specializing to activate its Nuviphone. In case notebooks are interposing SUVs of the mobile computing world, right now MIDs are like Segways. Perhaps if Intel, notebook vendors, Best Buy, and others want full price notebooks to continue to sell, they can follow the lead of car companies. Assurance plans anyone?

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