The Last of the Mohicans

Over the weekend I watched the movie version of The Last of the Mohicans once again, the version starring Danial Day Lewis. I’ve watched it many times before and I’m always surprised at how good it is. It’s filmed beautifully, the acting is first rate and the screen play is well done. What does that have to do with Hi-tech you ask? Simple, ASUS has released what is the technology "Last of the Mohicans", the Eee PC 1025c Flare.

Over the past few years every computer manufacturer (except the iFruit company) made a version of the Netbooks. They were all VERY similar with almost identical processors, RAM and memory. They all tried to make their products a bit different while keeping price at about $299. They all had the same mediocre performance but their wonderful size, weight and battery life made the trade-off worthwhile.

In 2012 there have been zero new Netbooks, except for the ASUS Flare. It’s the last of the breed and I doubt if we’ll see any additional Netbooks in the future. They have been totally replaced by tablets, and to a lesser extent, Ultrabooks. People wanted Netbooks as simple email and web browser devices and tablets perform those tasks as well as the bigger, heavier and slower Netbooks.

I still love my Netbooks and will probably keep using one for a while yet. Some day I may be called the Last of the Mohicans too.