Ever since the first netbook came out, tech reviewers have been complaining about the size of the keyboard ("I can't use it for six hours!"), the size of the screen, the available disk space, and the raw power. The reviewers wanted notebooks and compared netbooks to them at every turn. That's why netbooks evolved into under-powered notebooks. Smartbooks are receiving the same treatment.
The reviewers set the tone of the public. If they had accepted the niche that netbooks were trying to fill and made the function clear to the public, the public (and salesmen at super-stores) wouldn't be confused.
A 12" Atom-based computer with 160GB hard drive isn't a netbook, anyway. It's just a low-cost notebook.
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