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Also known as a tablet PC, netbook or subnotebook, the devices run 13» or smaller, weigh just a couple pounds, have touch screens and / or QWERTY keyboards and come with built ins like GPS and Wi - Fi and a variety of options.

As of last year, low - cost netbooks accounted for 19.6 % of all the portable PCs sold in 2009, according to DisplaySearch, a market research firm.

As stated in the full review, I have started taking it just about everywhere with me instead of my netbook.

Online curricula, distance learning, netbooks and cellphones in the classroom, and Web 2.0 tools — think Facebook and Skype — as a means of student collaboration have all gained luster as the drive to do more with less overlaps with the demands of educating a generation of digital natives.

The median number of IT technicians per school is 0.4 (FTE) for 228 devices (such as desktops, laptops, netbooks, iPads, and Chromebooks), and statewide six in ten schools statewide are well below 1:300.

The 10.1 - inch netbook - cum - tablet hasn't received quite as much attention as its transforming stablemates, with the Transformer Prime receiving the update to the latest version of the OS back in January.

As someone who previously wasn't sold on the concept of a detachable netbook / tablet combination, I have to say, I like ASUS's approach in this space.

Also debuting at the show was Asus» new UX Series notebooks; its redesigned N Series notebooks with SonicMaster audio technology; its versatile Eee Pad MeMO 3D, ultra-thin Eee PC X101 netbooks; and home entertainment devices such as the motion - sensing WAVI Xtion and the 27 - inch All - in - One high - definition ET2700XVT desktop PC.

As a netbook, the iPad loses a little in terms of portability, because you'll have to carry around two parts (iPad and keyboard dock), and it's not clear how practical it will be to carry around the keyboard dock.

Sixth: if the largest cell phone screens would not do, even the iPhone, Curve, etc., there are all the new netbooks coming out that should get the job done in any number of ways as far as an eBook presentation goes, from reading out loud, dozens of programs to choose from to read or to listen via text to speech, etc..

«We now have four ranges of tablets with 14 variants that come in screen sizes ranging from 4.3 inch to 11.8 inches, where some tablets can be converted into netbooks as they come attached with keyboards and other accessories.

The Amazon DX has a built in PDF reader, traditionally PDFS are meant to be read on large screen displays, such as netbooks and computers.

Sleeker, smarter mobile phones, tablets, and netbooks will be stars at next week's premier Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, as firms bring out their latest gadgets to court the Internet crowd.

Nonetheless, the idea of the iPad cannibalizing netbooks gained widespread attention late last week, after Best Buy CEO Dunn was paraphrased in The Wall Street Journal as saying the tablets had cannibalized more than 50 percent of their sales from laptops.

These are the computers that replaced inexpensive netbooks as a buying option for a lot of folks, especially with the volume of streaming video apps and games in the Google Play Store today.

After a report published in The Wall Street Journal last week quoting Best Buy boss Brian Dunn as saying Apple's iPad tablet was «cannibalizing» sales of notebooks and netbooks, Dunn issued a statement claiming his comments were inaccurately depicted.

For sure, a tablet with a keyboard dock is probably more desirable than even a netbook, at least in terms of portability when one wants it and then functionality, such as word processing, when the term paper is due, so to speak.

The other devices include netbooks, digital photo frames and personal navigation devices, as well as embedded devices used in telematics, home security and smart grids.

In the near future, Kobo will support other Android - enabled devices such as tablets, netbooks and eReaders.»

As someone who travels a lot, and I mean a lot, laptops and netbooks are with almost every traveler and you can see that in the lobby, etc..

I really had not expected the Vox to be able to play the video without any lag... took me aback The video (s) I used are ones that I know will push a device's processor and have seen it lag when played on a number of other tablets, ereaders, and netbooks in various stores, so when they played well on the Vox I am now even more curious about the Vox as a potential purchase.

What this means is that such a setup makes the Inspiron Duo great as a netbook device and but fails to impress in the tablet mode.

Peter from Netbook News reports that not only are Sharp's new 5.5 inch and 10.8 inch tablets available for purchase at computer and electronics stores — but you can find them at convenience stores as well (although they don't actually appear to be in stock at those locations, just available for order.

Slates can catch on to a wider audience then Netbooks were able to do and accomplish day to day tasks in key markets as an effective work tool.

Also, do not discount the rise of mobile computing, such as Netbooks and Slate / Tablet PCS such as the iPad, Google Slate, HP Hurricane and others draw in more attention to portable media and ebooks.

Asus has been one of the most successful Android tablet makers (in fact their upcoming Transformer Prime showed up as # 2 on Amazon's bestselling tablets today, next to the Kindle Fire of course), so it's not surprising that they might continue their Android work, though as a netbook - maker I would expect them to have some Windows 8 models as well.

This is in sharp contrast to the convertible tablet range we have seen at the recently concluded Computex such as the Taichi or the Acer W700, which are more like a laptop or a netbook with a removable display unit.

That's about as heavy as a netbook, which is fairly remarkable when you consider this device incorporates a touchscreen and two batteries — one in the dock and one inside the tablet.

Although the apps you may use with the Transformer may not feel, or be, as fully - featured or complicated as Windows alternatives, with the keyboard in - tow the experience isn't far removed from that of a full netbook or smaller laptop.

However, if we all lived in a land called «Common Sense,» I'd think the two companies — and all the other potential eBook reader and Netbook makers — would agree on an open version of the Amazon - owned ebook mobipocket format as iPhones and Kindles both display the format.

Intel has been here before, as it did with VIA Technologies competing against the VIA C7 - M in early days of the netbook and UMPC.

At some point the «college student» crowd (read «those on a budget») may «switch» to tablets as a «term paper machine» but that will only be when 1) these can run office - type apps; and 2) when the tablet, with a keyboard dock, can compete with netbooks in providing close to the same functionality (word processing, working with PDF documents, presentation preparation, light working with video, storage of gigabytes of files).

We shouldn't feel sorry for the audience as in addition to the Nook gift certificate they got a PowerMat, a MiFi, and perhaps best of all a Nokia netbook and a Palm Pixi.

As for netbooks - a category that has certainly felt the pinch of the mass arrival of media tablets - the first half of 2010 was slow, though in the third quarter things turned around, ABI said.

In other words, the iPad cost as much as a netbook; the Xoom costs as much as a laptop.

In netbook mode, the Eee PC T91MT serves as an invaluable tool for discussions, as the screen can be swiveled to accommodate multiple users, as well as accept concurrent touch input from more than one source.

Netbooks and 3G USB Laptop Adapters are also free in this limited time sale as well.

The company also offered other Android - based hardware such as a netbook and was in the process of launching 6 new devices earlier this year with a presence at trade shows, before its sudden, albeit unsurprising demise.

In comparison, a netbook can run most applications next to the browser as well.

The Taiwan - based computer giant will keep making netbooks, adding to its millions sold to date, but it will stick to simple models and manufacture fewer than in years past as tablets gain popularity, he said

The Acer W510 might be using the same Atom core as netbooks did but the package here is far more than that both in terms of computing and usage flexibility.

Amazon and other companies must make the case that their dedicated products have a place in a world filled with multipurpose devices that can display e-books, such as smartphones, tablets, and netbooks.

* Drag the stylus across grayscale images on the E-Ink screen to view them in color on the LCD screen * Attach Web pages, notes and video on the WiFi - enabled LCD screen to passages in an e-book * Export PDF notes or revised documents (such as contracts that are marked up on the E-Ink side) so that they can be emailed to colleagues * Open hyperlinks or view video embedded in an e-textbook on the netbook side

According to the Sunday Times in the UK, the product, dubbed the Eee Reader after the cheap Asus Eee PC netbooks, may be cheaper than Kindle and Sony e-book readers, with the budget version possibly costing as little as $ 165 in the UK.

One way this could ultimately happen is if wireless providers like Verizon subsidize the devices and sell them in their stores, as they do with the inexpensive laptops called netbooks.

I think one thing to keep in mind with the criticisms of the tablets that lack phone capability is that a lot of people (as per the stats we're seeing now) are using tablets like the iPad as a netbook / laptop replacement, not a phone replacement.

In an interview that Mike Lazaridis recently gave to Damian at Cnet Mike went on the record as calling the Storm a Netbook.

Customers have no idea what an ARM - based netbook can do and much like it is in the smartphone world will be forced to rely on advertising, branding, word of mouth and online reviews which is probably why the Beam will switch to Android when it comes to AT&T as a product.

Ultrabooks are coming up as the new mobile computing hot ticket item, so it's a little surprising that Intel would beef up the Atom line up that appears in Netbooks.

I have a netbook and don't like it as a ereader due to the glare on the display in the sunlight and it's weight.