The impression i have is that first Intel freaked, as they worried that they would cannibalize the ultra-portable market.
Second Microsoft freaked, because Vista could not run on them.
End result was that we got a combo of hardware and software that was not fit for anything, along with a bunch of gray-box rebrands (particularly of a certain MSI model).
Second Microsoft freaked, because Vista could not run on them.
End result was that we got a combo of hardware and software that was not fit for anything, along with a bunch of gray-box rebrands (particularly of a certain MSI model).