Marks & Spencer Releasing Their Own Netbook [MSNB-2009 Is Branded By British Retailer, Fancy Ad Campaign, Average Netbook]

Netbooks are cheap to buy and even cheaper to produce. Given their popularity and the worldwide recession, they’re selling like hotcakes, so needless to say, a ton of companies are jumping into the netbook market. Enter the MSNB-2009,  a netbook being branded and sold by British retail giant Marks & Spencer.

The Marks & Spencer site for the MSNB-2009 is pretty impressive. It features some slick web design, and the Marks & Spencer raves, “This is not just technology… This is M&S web book technology.” While that might lead some to believe that the MSNB-2009 was a powerful super netbook, under the hood, it’s fairly average as far as netbooks go.

For specs, it features an Intel Atom 1.6GHz processor, 1GB of DDR2, Windows XP and a 10″ LCD display, which is par for the course as far as netbooks come. Marks & Spencer will be offering the netbooks in three colors, black, blue and pink. The netbooks are being sold exclusively at Marks & Spencer stores, and will set you back £279 ($451).