Netbooks and Laptop What’s different?
Netbooks Computers become the Best selling computers at Amazon.com at October 2008 and this stuff will change the computing scence. I will try to give a little explain what is a netbook computer and what’s the different from a laptop?
A NETBOOK is a new type of computer determined by size, price, horsepower, and the operating system. They are small, cheap, under-powered, and run both old or less the operating system,
A netbook is a light-weight, low-cost, energy-efficient, highly portable laptop suitable for web browsing, email and general purpose applications. To achieve their small form factor, low weight and affordability, netbooks offer fewer features, less processing power and reduced ability to run resource-intensive operating systems. wikipedia
Below, General Specification of NetBook for example intel:
Hardware:
- Screen resolution 1024×600
- Intel Atom CPU running at 1.6-GHz
- Wi-Fi B and G
- Ethernet at 100Mbps
- A slot for a flash RAM memory card
- External VGA output jack
- Integrated graphics
- Two or three USB ports
- Built-in camera
- Headphone and microphone jacks
- Typical weight of 2 to 3 lb
- LCD screen of 7-10 inches
- there is no optical drive
- No Bluetooth
- Don’t yet support 3G networks (for a while)
Software:
Netbooks support for Windows XP Home edition or Linux (but the version of Linux is not popular Netbooks main distribution). They do not run XP Professional, Vista, or OS X. Microsoft has plans to make windows 7 available on Netbook
One of the major differences between the NETBOOK models is the storage, some have spinning platter hard disks, other come with solid state disks (SSDs). Often Linux-based Netbooks employ SSDs Windows XP using a standard hard drive models. The reasons for this include: Windows XP requires more storage space, SSDs are more expensive and Windows itself is more expensive than Linux. Cnet News
