摘要
2009年4月22日，苹果公司首席运营官蒂姆·库克（Tim Cook）在参加分析师电话会议时，毫不客气地指斥上网本是个“垃圾产品”，但到了5月份，一些评测机构却已经拿到了苹果公司的上网本样机。
Tim Cook, Chie Operation Officer of the US-based Apple Inc.. once said at a call meeting on April, 'We don't make netbook, because it sucks.' In the following month, however, Apple's sample netbooks were on the desks of some evaluation agencies. PC giants like Hewlett-Packard (HP) and DELL who made similar promises have jumped into the field even earlier. Netbook usually refers to a small laptop with 10-inch screen, running Windows XP only, having no disk driver. It hardly attracted mainstream consumers at first; nor did major PC brands take a notice of it. But it grew wildly and turned out a profit business. Thanks to lower-priced netbook, laptop was able to fly off the shelves and enter ordinary families. Most domestic PC makers have released netbooks below RMB3000 (US$440), and you can even find RMB1700 (US$249) products at electronic product markets. Like the butterfly flapping its wings, netbook has generated a violate storm that may overthrow the industrial structures of IT, telecom, consumer electronics and alike. Acer, the former No. 4 player, used netbooks to surpassing Lenovo, DELL, and is expected to beat HP this year. VIA Technologies. Inc.. a declining processor provider, nearly defeated the chip giant Intel. Apart from Internet, netbook binds many seemingly isolated technologies together, especially computing with telecommunication, two most important applications nowadays. For the changes it has brought, netbook does not at all suck, but is just great!
