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Some 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!

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I was reading this morning how computer Italian market is driven by laptops, how sales for laptops grow year by year. Actually, if you look to the 35% growth rate for laptops sales in Italy, then you must agree that it is something to consider…The whole computer market in Italy seems to be doing pretty well, but nothing compares to how laptops are sold there!

Then, to my surprise, I’ve seen an other article on an other site about how sales for laptops in Germany boom! Seems these guys give a free laptop for every purchased one, or they sell really cheap laptops or I can not explain it,really!

An improvement in the German economy coupled with the rising strength of the Euro has contributed to a 44 per cent year-on-year increase in sales of mobile computers.

Ooo, this is good! This is even better than in Italy! But wait, how are other European countries doing? Let’s see!

In UK, seems that there is a 40% growth in laptop sales. Over 60% of the 3.1 million units shipped in the UK last quarter were notebooks while France, Spain and Sweden show gains of between 30 and 40%.

I think this is also the situation in Romania, even if I can not give you numbers. As a short conclusion, we purchased 3 new computers for our office, all of them were laptops and not desktops.

Well?

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Will all laptops become rugged laptops?

I can not stop asking myself if rugged laptops will ever become a habit, an usual item of a regular person. Actually at this point, rugged laptops are a special kind of laptops, the industrial line that withstand what others can’t. please notice I said can’t, not won’t or my not stand or whatever form you would like. Can’t, period. Rugged laptops are strong. That is what makes them stand out of the crown. However, I can not stop asking if after 10 years will still have this difference.

Did you ever think about this? Maybe all notebooks will be rugged. Or maybe people won’t even talk about tugged laptops because all laptops will be able to survive falls or water spill or crashes and bumps…Or maybe not.

Will rugged laptops be even stronger? This is more likely

Maybe that all the laptops will be able to withstand these kind of stress factors but maybe new ones will appear and there will still be a category of rugged laptops that will do more than the current ones do. Actually, if I think about it, it it more likely to be like this. Because there is no such thing as the absolute best. Every thing has a thing above it. So, no matter how strong laptops will become, there will be some stronger than regular ones that will be called rugged laptops.

It would be interesting to know what could they take. Driving over with a tank? Withstanding falls from 20 m? Acid? Crashes under a power press or what? Let’s just wait and see.

What do you think?

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