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 9/19/2008 3:06 AM
User is offline KILLAHBEEZ
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Mini notebook computers?
 
It seems lately that everybody is coming out with these mini notebooks. First there was the Asus Eee. Now just about every company has one coming out. Dell, Acer, Toshiba and now Sony is joining the game. Soon Apple I bet. I always said ultra portable is good, but the specs on these things have to be slow and the battery life is very little. Some now have the new 1.6 Intel Atom chip and 6 cell batterys but not many. Do you guys think this is a fad or are these mini notebooks the future of laptops.
 
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 9/19/2008 1:14 PM
User is offline Kevin J Baird
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Re: Mini notebook computers?
 
It's like tablets.  Limited audience, but competition is fierce in this market and every provider wants to have a complete solution so they all make one but I don't think there will be a push to sell them.  They are just there if someone wants them. 

The problem we are having is to get something small like a phone in your pocket but give it the functionality to do work on it.  The industry tries to find a workable balance but there really isn't any.  You can't get a full size keyboard and decent sized screen and fit it in your pocket. 

These days, they are shooting for that "paperback book size" rather than the encyclopedia size of a regular laptop.  But if you have to carry it, you might as well carry the big one that is full featured over the small.

I think eventually an iPhone type device will be powerful enough to act as a full featured PC or Mac.  But it'd have to be something that you could pop into a cradle and use a regular keyboard, mouse and monitor.  Apple is getting close.  But even they have a while to go yet before the hardware innards are good enough to actually run like a real computer.
 
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