Do we really need another "book" device between a smart phone and a netbook? Are these "smartbooks" in the same space which the apple tablet is going to open up?
The standard for the netbook category has to be the eee 701 and the new Arm-based machines are going to be closer to that then the Ion-based £350 machines. So, why don't we keep the netbook name for those machines designed for the net and other basics like the eee 701 and arm-based machines and come up with a new term for the more ambitious machines? Personally I'd just catagorise them as the cheap end of the ultraportable category with performance to match but videobooks would work, or nick the smartbook term.
Having netbooks be the mid-range of three catagories of tiny notebooks is just going to confuse a lot of people initially when there's been lots written about how they're the absolute basics.
LetsGo I'm running a windows 7 RC heavily stripped down for best performance, Readyboost is being used, and my browser isn't IE6/7, I'm currently using Firefox 3.5 which has also been tweaked to increase performance due to making little difference out-of-the-box. I've also tried IE8 and Google Chrome and had no extra luck. It's the Acer Aspire One netbook. Oh and latest updates areinstalled too.
The processor is simply too slow in its current form and Intel shouldn't be selling. Thankfully I only have to hang in there for a few more weeks until I can afford to buy an average performance PC.
I recently bought the HP mini 5101 and am having no problems with the atom N280 chip. I use it for uni and have had visio, word, excel and adobe all open at once along with skype and google chrome.
Running windows xp but maybe it helps having 2 gigs of ram and a 7200 spin hdd?
So no problems for me, though anything faster is always a bonus ^^
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