Cheap laptops, the new trend?
Monday, July 21st, 2008Some time ago, $1500 was a good price for laptops (I don’t speak here about rugged laptops since there is an other price for them due to special manufacturing conditions). $1000 was considered a bargain, but lately, the market is asking for a lot of cheap laptops, net being happy with these prices anymore. People interested in laptops ask now to spend less and less for technology. I wonder if this is an effect of prices going up generally speaking, so people look for spending less on particular items, or the technology reached a point where common usage of computers require less power, thus less money?
A few years ago, in order to run particular applications, you needed good computer power, but nowadays, technology reached a point where most applications could run very well on common computers, so people may not be that eager to spend big money for technology anymore. Thus this need for cheap laptops? Who know?
Or maybe the reason is the continuous fight for market share? Maybe price became one of the most important arguments when trying to differentiate notebooks on the market, since technology is almost the same for common usage.
Think of last years’s Assus laptop that had was only $499, well, that was a cheap but basic laptop, isn’t it? Now Asus does it again coming with the $699 ASUS Eee PC 1000H. Another one that is going to shake the market, I think.
I think that soon, a lot of notebooks manufacturers will join the race and will try to provide cheaper and cheaper notebooks with each passing day!
UK workers take their laptops with them while in holiday! At least that is what