Asus, Lenovo, Toshiba, Dell, HP they all have one thing in common – they have a netbook model. Panasonic have officially stated that they will not produce a netbook.
Toshi Harada a spokeman from Panasonic
Many people have asked us the same question. We’re focused on corporate rather than consumer needs, and performance is too low to work with office documents or other applications. The key pitch (the distance between the keys) is only 15.5mm, which is too difficult to use compared to the 17mm on regular notebooks.
So Panasonic is happy to leave the netbook market to others, they will not produce a netbook. Via
