Evil Plan? Intel to make the netbooks “children only” market?

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Wow! Who would have expected this? In some random talk, Intel’s chief ‘re-iterated’ the fact that netbooks will become more of a market targeted towards children.

Although Intel’s Atom processors are at the top and most dominant in the  netbook market, folks at Intel are still not happy with the unbelievable progress made by the netbook segment. Reason behind this is simple: Netbooks have now started to really hurt the sales of the notebooks. Netbooks are the perfect way to do your basic work: web-surfing, office document editing, basic photo retouching (using Photoshop) and so on. You do not need an insanely powerful (and expensive) Core 2 duo-equipped computer to do the aforementioned  tasks. When you are mobile, one of the most important thing that matters  is the battery life. Most of the modern day netbooks offer 6 hours-plus of battery life and some of them even offer 8  hours too.

Coming back to the point: It would be an extremely unintelligent step, if Intel is bent upon making the netbook a “children only” market. Netbooks have been able to do something which the UMPCs (which is now a niche market) failed to do, that is to become a mass market product.

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