by Jessica Shambora
On Monday, Pattie's post centered on two words--"coopetition" and "frenemy"--that have entered our lingo recently. Now let us speak about a 3rd: netbook. Unless you're an early adopter, you could not realize that netbooks are more compact than typical laptops and developed more for browsing the world wide web and simple desktop publishing than for storing your files or managing difficult plans. They're also significantly cheaper than traditional notebooks.
According to IDC analyst Bob O'Donnell, ten.8 million netbooks are anticipated for being marketed this 12 months, accounting for seven.8% of all notebook product sales. The 2009 forecast is for twenty.8 million, representing eleven.1% of the notebook market. The netbook's result in will surely be bolstered by today's kick off from the HP Mini one thousand, a brand new line of netbooks from the biggest maker of PCs, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ).
Last week a crew from HP stopped by Lot of money to show us some a few of their new toys, including the sleek black Mini one thousand. The exterior style has certainly arrive a long way, each from HP's early notebooks and from a few of the initial netbooks, which looked a lot much more like toys than enterprise resources. One more attribute I like was the texturized track-pad, which can make navigating less complicated sans mouse.
The size is the most remarkable factor. The Mini a hundred is significantly less than 1-inch thick and weighing just over two lbs. Its keyboard is 92% the dimensions of a regular notebook keyboard,
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Actually HP had already joined the netbook crowd--which contains forerunner Asus, MSI, Acer, Dell (DELL), Lenovo and an expected release from Samsung--with the tranquil launch with the HP 2133 Mini-Note Pc this past April. But whereas the 2133 was targeted in the educational market, the Mini 1000 is meant to draw in "mobile pros, always-on social media fans and trend forward ladies."
"Fashion forward women" refers for the Vivienne Tam edition in the Mini 1000, a vibrant red scenario using a peony-flower layout that supposedly reflects the fashion designer's Spring 2009 assortment. Tam has labeled her netbook the world's initial "digital clutch" as it initial appeared to the runway wherever many mistook it for a purse. Tam's Mini 1000 also comes with a designer price-tag of $699.
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