Netbooks, the high growth segment in PC market
India was in news few days back over launch of “The Cheapest Car of the world“, Nano. Car has caught the imagination of whole world because of its low pricing in these troubled times that too without sacrificing any safety or emission norms.
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Netbooks on the other hand are miniature notebooks where some of the features of desktops and notebooks are sacrificed for speed and longer battery backups.
Netbooks may not be able to run demanding applications like games or image editing software. But when it comes to browsing Internet, sending, receiving mails and word processing then at a price of less than $100, it is going to be the next in thing in computer’s market. Today we all know computer market is dominated by Microsoft and Intel. But netbooks will in all probably hit the two giants hard.
Recession is going to have negative fall outs on both these giants as PC sales will plummet by 12% (as predicted by Gartner ). The analysts say that by end of this year netbooks will account for close to 10% of the PC market.
Present generation netbboks are having Intel Atom chips which runs Windows XP. But the coming times will see netbooks manufactures embracing cellphone ARM chips over Atom chips which consume lesser power. But the real fallout of ARM chips will be on choice of operating system. ARM cellphone chips will have to rely on Linux or the in-development Android from Google’s stable. The coming times will see further drop in the prices of netbooks as the technologies evolve and a separate segment emerges for netbooks.
Computex trade show in Taipei, Taiwan, this June will see many new variants hitting the market. The present netbooks have improved upon the battery charge but future developments will see much longer battery charges and more sleeker & lightweight designs.
Soon desktop PCs are going to be passe and new and improved variants of Nano err netbooks will arrive.
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a 10.1″ because all the 11.6″ models come with downgraded Atom processors (z520 with GMA 500 chips vs. the N280 and GMA 900 on this one). SHOULD come with 2 GB of memory to match the other upgraded specs on this otherwise upgraded version, but unfortunately, doesn’t.
NOT ALL ASPIRE AOD250′S ARE CREATED EQUAL DEPT.: Danger Will Robinson! Danger Will Robinson! Danger Will Robinson! PLEASE NOTE that Aspire has put the AOD250 label on a WHOLE HOST of widely different netbooks. Things to watch out for: the N280 is MUCH faster than the N270 – not because of the processor speed (1.66 vs. 1.6, nothing!) but because of the front bus (memory) speed (677 vs. 533, a lot!). This version, as of the date I write this review, also comes with Win7 while many come with XP; comes with 250 GB hard drive instead of 160 GB on most AOD250′s; has wireless N instead of G (a LOT faster, when internet cafes and other locations upgrade); has Blue Tooth; has the 6 cell battery (AND it’s in the 5200 m.a. version, not the 4200).