#nettop

Since early this year, we have not heard nor seen any new nettops announced locally. After the craze on netbooks several years ago, companies like Intel were banking on nettops as the next major market. Manufacturers like Asus, Acer, Dell, Asrock and MSI all did their own version of the nettop. We even tried this Bluray-touting nettop from Asrock. The nettop proposition was simple -- cheap, low-power desktop computing with a very small footprint. I have a couple of ideas why the nettop category did not fly: Savings on low power-consumption is hard to explain to consumers. While typical desktop PCs might consume between 100 to 150 watts, nettops promised a much lower consumption rate of between 20 to 35 watts. Decent to average processing power from nettop processors also restricted the kind of activities you can do with them. Read more in our articles including "Has the Nettop lost its charm and power?" and "Astone Enforcer Mini-Nettop PC".