We remember that Dirk Myer, CEO of AMD said that netbook term
won’t last and that people will abandon it, and it was funny to see that AMD
started using netbook term in its internal roadmaps.
Netbook in AMD’s world is a machine that should have just
enough power for Internet and email and it is part of mobile lifestyler (who
comes up with this nonsense E.D.).
AMD also believes that netbook is a part of the larger
consumer group who are born to compute, and not to create. The creative guys
according to AMD needs better stuff than netbook, something that they call it “Performance
traditional” or at least “Mainstream traditional” market.
AMD needs a lot of work on its mobile segment as they don’t even
have the price advantage, not to mention the disaster battery life and overall
mobile computing disadvantage that AMD have for years now. Starting to use word
netbook, something that Intel came up with, was a natural thing as in this
case, resistance was futile. We hope that AMD guys will try to watch their language
to avoid such silly situations.
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AMD uses netbook term
Dirk bends over