Panasonic not entering netbook market

If you’re holding out for the possibilities of a Panasonic netbook, you might as well forget about it for now. A Panasonic employee by the name of Toshi Harada mentioned that the company will stay out of the netbook market – leaving it in the hands of other competitors. The company will continue to focus on the corporate market where Harada feels netbooks are not aptly suited for. Harada, who is from the Panasonic Kobe factory, stated the following:

“We’re focused on corporate rather than consumer needs, and performance is too low to work with office documents or other applications.”

Darn.. a Panasonic ToughBook netbook would have been cool (though probably expensive I would imagine).

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Written by flung

September 30th, 2008 at 5:08 pm

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check scanner 11 months ago 1 point
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panasonic did a great job on this one, concerning on their costumer satisfaction as always.

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Rick 1 year ago 1 point
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They do have a mini U1 model, 5.6" Screen and solid state hard drive, but this is more of a technicians' scan tool type of device. Made to withstand 4' drops ( The Standard UPS-Toss Standard of care ) Not enough room on solid state hard drive for full programs.

I also would have liked to see a 10" screen, 200gb solid state hard drive, the renowned weather resistant water-draining keyboard for those of us using a laptop in severe weather conditions.

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