NETbooks! Everywhere !

[byke]

Technically netbooks seem to go against apples business / ideology plans.
However the company seems to have become quite different in terms of
how they operate and product specs the past couple of years.

And while I appreciate allot of their steadfast confidence, the original market
share they were aiming there products to has significantly changed. This new
and larger market they seem to be aiming there products at are more in line
with the PC industry where competition is very competitive.

And this is where I feel Apple is failing.
I believe Apple needs to make a mac mini style netbook with the main
intentions of trying to open up and spread the basics of OSX software.
Especially as Microsoft is going tooth and nails trying to regain some
respect, and many computer makers are now looking more closely at
making add ons for umbuntu.

 

[weckart]

The Atom Processor does not support more than 1GB of ram. Future revisions of the processor will though. The netbooks that support more than 1GB ram are using the much less powerefficient celeron M processor.

Benchmarks show that a 900Mhz Celeron M processor has more power than a 1,6Ghz atom cpu btw.

The Atom is a 32 bit cpu, which can handle as much RAM as any other 32 bit cpu. RAM limitations are down to the version of the Intel 945 controller chipset implemented in netbook motherboards: 2GB for the most part, since netbooks were never designed for heavy lifting.

The Celeron is a tad more powerful than the 1.6 Atom, but the latter can be overclocked more easily and runs at a lower temperature, which helps battery life somewhat. Pity that this is almost cancelled out by the inefficient 945 which does get rather warm.

The newer VIA Nano blazes the Intel Atom.

It happens to also use less power at idle, but far more power at peak (maximum) load. However, I don't see myself doing any intensive tasks on a netbook anyway, just internet and typing out articles for journals, so the processor would be just sitting there most of the time anyway. Also, because the VIA Nano is faster, it spends less time at peak load, and more time sitting idle.

Anyway, I feel that the VIA Nano does have a lot of advantages, one being 30-50% faster when performing intensive tasks.

I will be curious to see how it performs in real life situations, since the C7 is too hot to be useful in small netbooks. The HP gets really toasty.

 

[nick9191]

11" widescreen
Not a full size keyboard, but missing some keys so still comfortable to type on.
2gb RAM soldered
64gb and 128gb SSD
1.2 and 1.6 Core 2 Duo
No superdrive
1 USB
7 hour battery life
Wireless N + Bluetooth
iSight + Mic
Mono speaker
3lb
0.8" thick

$1099 and $1499 sound ok (remember SSD prices will drop by January)

 

[Jelite]

Theyre not going to bring out anything that could potentially cut into Air sales and they wont make a cheap laptop because that's not what apple do, everyone can stop dreaming now.

 

[dinaluvsApple]

11" widescreen
Not a full size keyboard, but missing some keys so still comfortable to type on.
2gb RAM soldered
64gb and 128gb SSD
1.2 and 1.6 Core 2 Duo
No superdrive
1 USB
7 hour battery life
Wireless N + Bluetooth
iSight + Mic
Mono speaker
3lb
0.8" thick

$1099 and $1499 sound ok (remember SSD prices will drop by January)

wouldnt this be the viao tz........

 

[lugesm]

More than I thought.

Just found a matrix that compares NetBook computers. It lists a whopping 46 models, 29 in current production and 17 in process.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_netbooks

 

[mkrishnan]

Just found a matrix that compares NetBook computers. It lists a whopping 46 models, 29 in current production and 17 in process.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_netbooks

That's actually a really incomplete list, too. There were numerous notable absences. It's become quite ridiculous how many models there are -- some companies, and Asus has been particularly egregious, are just releasing new models every couple of weeks with no sensibility whatsoever.

This presentation slide from Asus kind of captures the absurdity...