Although I have come across this a little later then its post date, it is a great blog..

Since netbooks hit the shelves, they have been a great success on the consumer front, however, being in the mobility space for some years, and thinking of what is it that gives maximum productivity in the mobile computing space, given current hardware and current stigmas associated with mobility, I have given some thought to netbooks and their potential to be enterprise acceptable.

This blog gives new lime-light to, at least, my thinking of the hardware choices for mobile computing.

Netbooks are great, but they do come with limitations compared to their bigger, more well known laptops/notebooks and desktop siblings, but what I believe they have to offer, is a far more ease of use comparably to a current mobility device; PDAs, XDAs, smartPhones, etc… and a heck of a lot more uniformity between themselves and their siblings. This is not to be spinning into an apples to oranges comparison!!

Transitioning, to my mind, would be easier for the workforce, and potentially, application design, development and deployment may be somewhat easier as it would be a little more traditional, and somewhat aligned to the thinking of your typical IT shop folks!

As for cost and total cost of ownership, netbooks seem like a far more sensible accounting practice than even the most limiting mobility device available today. They may not be slick like an iPhone or something Android based (or WM based) in the ‘traditional thinking’ of mobility, but they have a lot more ‘under the hood’, and a lot more ‘leg room’ with the practicalities of computing general.

Of course this would be driven by those who spend $$$ to make use of this technology, and ‘in-hope’ a wave to follow, or not, to determine if this truly can be enterprise acceptable :)