They don't fit in my pockets and if I have a bag I only really care about weight at that point.
Maybe, but I find the eee a lot easier to carry around when I am at conferences. Sometimes you need to move pretty quickly, and the eee makes that easy. A big laptop has to be closed and stowed away in your backpack. The netbook just floats around with you. (It's hard to describe, so try it sometime.)
Many "normal people" tend to have a web browser (word processor etc) and a IM client open at the same time so Netbooks resolution is still a fairly large sacrifice for most normal people.
That's why the non-Windows netbooks go for a GUI that uses virtual desktops (or rather, all the apps are full-screen). This works very well; the notification tray gets your attention when your IM window needs you, but otherwise you just keep the browser maximized.
(This is not how I use my netbook, FWIW, but I am not a "normal person". I do my IM-ing from inside emacs; so I usually have 3 xmonad desktops; emacs, an xterm, and a full-screen web browser.)
Anyway, the reason why people need 1900x1200 on a laptop is because they don't know how to manage windows properly. Learn that, and you can do fine with a 9" screen.
Maybe, but I find the eee a lot easier to carry around when I am at conferences. Sometimes you need to move pretty quickly, and the eee makes that easy. A big laptop has to be closed and stowed away in your backpack. The netbook just floats around with you. (It's hard to describe, so try it sometime.)
Many "normal people" tend to have a web browser (word processor etc) and a IM client open at the same time so Netbooks resolution is still a fairly large sacrifice for most normal people.
That's why the non-Windows netbooks go for a GUI that uses virtual desktops (or rather, all the apps are full-screen). This works very well; the notification tray gets your attention when your IM window needs you, but otherwise you just keep the browser maximized.
(This is not how I use my netbook, FWIW, but I am not a "normal person". I do my IM-ing from inside emacs; so I usually have 3 xmonad desktops; emacs, an xterm, and a full-screen web browser.)
Anyway, the reason why people need 1900x1200 on a laptop is because they don't know how to manage windows properly. Learn that, and you can do fine with a 9" screen.