#history of netbooks

It was sometime in the middle of 2007 that we first heard of the term netbooks. Asus sold over 300,000 units in four months and continued by releasing several iterations of the 7-inch, 9-inch, 10-inch and 12-inch netbooks (Asus had 30 models of the Eee PC!). Intel's Role with the Atom The original netbooks were powered by Intel's Celeron M with a single-core processor running at 630MHz. Despite this, the limited processing capability meant that netbooks were only meant for basic stuff like web browsing, word processing, worksheets and media playback (although back then, I managed to do a little bit of Photoshop as well). Intel was aggressively pushing for Netbooks due to the fact that its Atom processor was in the middle of it all. Netbooks were eating market share from regular notebooks too due to the price point. [caption align="aligncenter" width="720"] A rare Toshiba netbook running NVidia Tegra 250 processor and Android 2.1 OS.[/caption] With so many new models coming out, the market was naturally saturated with netbooks. At its peak, Netbooks was getting around 20% of market share across all portable computing devices. Read more in our articles including "The Rise and Fall of Netbooks" and "What does the 'i' stand for in iPhone and other Apple products?".