Notebook and Netbook closer and the consumer gains
ByThe era of laptops and the latest version of the Netbook. Now there is no difference between them and others. The netbooks have become gradually larger with more features and larger screen. And notebooks are wisely become smaller, not to have his space from the “little brother”, and now weigh less and are more “portable” than before. In short, it’s more of a difference due to the needs of marketing (the netbook is “cool”, the notebook is “old”) who is not a real difference of specific functions or weight.
To change the situation were the new ultra-low voltage processors, the Culv, who have recently made their appearance in thinner and lighter notebooks than ever before. Many new machines come on the market recently marked the end of the battle between netbook and notebook, because the differences between the two genres are becoming less. Indeed, because it becomes easier to buy a cheap laptop than a netbook more expensive. Yes, because in theory it was willing to give up optical disk, a wide screen, a keyboard handy to have in hand an extremely lightweight, portable and economic. But when the notebook start to be less expensive, lighter, but they have keyboards, screens and complete functions, the ground for the “net” beginning to be difficult and the difference to vanish. As in the case of the MSI Wind U200, presented these days, or the Samsung N510, called netbooks, notebooks fact.
What happened? A specific thing, or the arrival of Windows XP on netbooks. The small and inexpensive machines manufactured by Asus or MSI, were particularly suited to Internet access and cut costs so much about coming to Linux as an operating system without any license from Microsoft to pay. They’ve had success, but really exploded in the market only when Microsoft started to put in netbooks Windows XP, which is no longer available for some time on “big” computers, both laptop and desktop. 16 million netbooks were sold in the U.S. alone in 2008, corresponding with the explosion of the economic crisis, cheap computers with an operating system that normal people familiar with the old Windows XP. Besides the “crisis” of desktops and laptops as the success of home computers, has enabled many chains selling the netbook as “comrades” portable computer to keep at home, the old ‘boxes’ desktops that cost less than a laptop able to perform the same functions.
Then came the Intel processors with ultra-low voltage, which cost much less and make the batteries last longer, to the delight of computer manufacturers, who have seen the possibility of offering new machines and prices slightly higher than the Netbook cheaply. And this is the point or the arrival on the market of notebooks that cost little more of the netbook, but have a power far greater. The Dell Inspirion 11 costs $ 399, which has a price from netbook, but it has an Intel processor 1GB, much faster than that normally are in the Atom netbooks.
If you really want in the end, leave life both definitions, we could not listen to what they say at HP, according to which the netbook are made to consume content and notebooks to create and consume content. That, however, leaves us the question of where to put smartphones in this new universe. But the speech in this case would lead us too far …
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