InformationWeek has an interesting idea.  They think that people are only going for the smaller, lighter, cheaper netbooks because of the economy and that once things improve that their ability to sell will decrease as people have more money to buy larger, more powerful machines.

The only problem is the the price isn’t the only key.

The days of needing a 10lbs computer to lug around to do everything are over.  The web faciliates much of our commerce, entertain, and communication leaving little demand for powerhouse computers.

When doing the comparison, people like the option to choose.  As long as netbooks provide an advantage over other computers they’ll continue to grow as a category.  They will get larger, they will get more expensive but with other comparable computers costing more than $1,000 netbooks have a lot of room to go no matter the economy.

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