(Credit: Fujitsu) The potential of the Netbook market is turning even the skeptics into believers these days. On Tuesday, Fujitsu is expected to announce its first Netbook-class laptop for the North American market. It’s called the Fujitsu M2010 , though the company prefers to describe it as a “mini-notebook” instead of a Netbook. Regardless, it’s the first Fujitsu notebook with an Intel Atom processor inside for buyers on this continent. The M2010 is your standard Netbook/mini-note, with Windows XP, a 160GB hard drive, 1GB of RAM, and three-cell battery for $449. It’s nothing all that different from the rest of the crowd, unless you count that it’s only available in Ruby Red. Fujitsu has

sold another Netbook, a 9-inch model sold only in Europe, which Fujitsu’s senior product director Paul Moore said wasn’t suitable for the U.S. Fujitsu M2010 Mini-notebook “We didn’t bring it to North America because it was an 8.9-inch screen. At that time the feedback we were getting was 8.9 was too small,” he said. The M2010 has a 10-inch screen, which is quickly becoming the standard size for Netbooks–on Monday Dell canned its 9-inch Netbook in favor of two models of its 10-inch Netbooks. And Asus and Acer have also been increasing their focus on the 10-inch category. …

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Fujitsu hops on Netbook bandwagon