Tag Archives: netbook
Full Featured Laptops or Cloudbook
There are a lot of different and new machines out there for the Chromebook to compete with in the portable/ultralight arena. Considering the high price of these machines though, they are certainly priced out of the market in which they would be ideal – the below £200 market. In the £350 to £400 market, they [...]
Incidence of Gadgets
Travelling as much as I do, I have noticed quite a big change over the last decade in the range of gadgets carried by travellers. It used to be the case that you saw most business travellers with their Nokia 6210 mobile phones and some actually had laptops ranging from the hulking huge to the [...]
Apple Netbook
Rumours abound on the Internet over the weekend about Apple testing an Arm A5 based variant of the MacBook Air. That is an interesting proposition with the same limits as recent discussions about the Windows 8 variant for Arm – it leaves behind legacy completely. However this could just so easily be called the Apple [...]
Netbook Death by iPad
A thought just struck me after reading yet another ‘Netbooks are dead’ article. Netbooks are not dead, they just need to evolve. As a keyboard based device, many people do want (but already have one). Many of them are looking to upgrade, however Netbooks have functionally changed little since 2007. There are some improvements such [...]
Notebook Performance
I had cause recently to have an online conversation with a reader who believed that the only worthwhile computer equipment was the very fastest thing you can get. This person was looking at the needs equation from their own perspective which was as a gamer. This is so small a percentage of computer users, particularly [...]
Death of Netbooks…
There have been many posts today (like this, and this) as follow up to the Acer story about them dropping netbooks as a product and effectively focusing on touch screen devices. The follow up has been largely about retractions from Acer that netbooks will be an important part of their product lineup. Many people have [...]
The Answer to Secure Mobile Computing?
Well Google spilled the beans on their Google ChromeOS NOTEBOOK (interesting that they do not call them netbooks, but then at 12.1inches it is certainly more light notebook than netbook. Here is the promo video. It certainly has some very interesting features such as full encrypted file system, full separation between customer accounts, single sign [...]
Is the new MacBook Air eating into iPad sales?
Since the Late 2010 MacBook Air was released, there has been a huge amount of interest in the small and light space. Now the headlines are coming through asking the obvious bait question:- Is the new MacBook Air eating into iPad sales?. Until the recent release, most people were posting about whether the iPad was [...]
Key Performance Factors for the Mobile Worker
I was an instant convert to the netbook concept – the low cost, ultra light and small laptop with good battery life and excellent connectivity, at least when combined with 3G cards. I still am, and I keep my Asus 1008HA charged up and available whenever I am travelling and suspect I need a PC [...]
iPad, NetPad, Smartbook, Netbook, Laptop, whatever
I could not let the event pass, the launch of the Apple iPad. This raises the interesting questions of what is this iPad? what does it mean? what use is it? At least from the mobile worker perspective. To me it is simple, it just another device in the realm that has not got one [...]