Not exact matches
Great
netbook for anyone who wants something
small and light to take with you
for general computing.
It's not an ideal size
for carrying laptops but could fit
small tablets or
netbooks.
The smartbook makers are betting that
netbooks —
small laptops optimised
for mobile internet browsing — are still too large and too slow to boot up
for users to carry everywhere they go, whereas existing smartphones are too
small to run rich media satisfactorily and not powerful enough
for serious applications.
Even so, it should be obvious, and I tried this out on a 9 year old this week, new generations, those whose eyesight will not deteriorate
for a long time to come, those people can read prints I can't even read with my reading glasses, thus they could care less about the size of the font available in a Kindle, leaving the Kindle sadly to the declining Boomers, who are spending $ 500 on the average when they buy a Kindle, while an entirely new computer generation is buying this new crop of
Netbooks that are full computers in pretty much all senses, but are even
smaller in size than the Kindles, and
smaller in price.
For consumers this means they can look forward to even
smaller and more powerful
netbook computers with longer battery life.
They were expected take dominate the landscape and be a substitute
for netbooks and laptops; yet after a year on the market, only a
small, affluent few have purchased the device.
Moblin too is drawing applause
for the latest version of its mobile OS that many believe is particularly suited
for devices that are
smaller than
netbooks.
Still, the case against a
smaller iPad still stands,
for the same reason Apple never made a
netbook: it's not better at anything.
The Transformer is a reasonably priced Android tablet that doubles as a «
netbook,» or
small laptop, if you buy an accessory keyboard dock
for $ 109.
It's still the case that laptops and
smaller netbook computers are tuned
for production - word processing, e-mailing, number - crunching, more complicated tasks that often require a lot of text and switching among several windows running different applications.
We have also purchased a limited number of iKits ----
small collections of portable devices including e-readers, tablets, and
netbooks ---- and distribute them to library staff in our branches
for them to try out, learn, to support customers, and to use as part of their day - to - day work.
You could get a
small (cheap)
netbook for less than $ 300.
It's going more
for a portable PC kind of thing that's
smaller and more compact than a laptop or
netbook.
The
smaller package saves 42 % the silicon real estate of similar products, and it is targeted
for small form factor PCs,
smaller notebooks, and
netbooks.
During the development process, around 2008, Apple executives were talking about
netbooks, the
small, inexpensive laptops that were all the rage
for other companies at the time.
A recent Angus Reid study of Canadian
small and medium - sized business owners, including real estate agents, revealed that more than 70 per cent say it's okay
for employees to use business laptops or
netbooks for non-work related activities, such as personal email and social networking.