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Notebooks? No! Netbooks!

#159 | 22:07 |

Lab Rats

Monday February 16, 2009

Andy and Sean take a look at netbooks, a hot category of small laptops perfect for taking on the go. They're great for checking email, surfing the web and composing documents. They feature good battery life and are super portable but have smaller screens and keyboards. So, is a netbook right for you? Stay tuned as the Lab Rats break it down.

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Show Notes

- netbook: or a ultra mobile pc. For the basic notebook user who wants to check email, browse the web, watch movies, listen to music, and etc.

- First "subnotebooks" launched in early 1990's. For more information can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/subnotebook.

- Some disadvantages are smaller keyboard, smaller screen, lower resolution, not your typical computing processor chip, and in most cases no optical drive.

- Linux: For more information visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux.

- Many of the typical notebook manufacturers are selling netbooks such as, Asus, Acer, Dell, HP, Sony, and MSI.

- Acer Aspire One: $300 US (with Linux).

- Sony DRX-S70U External Optical Drive: $100 US.

- Source code: all the lines of programming language that make up a program.

- USB: is a common connector on most computers built since the late 1990's.

- Intel Atom: low-power consumption processor chip.

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- SD and MemoryStick data cards are used in digital cameras and other consumer electronics.

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By comeradealexi about four years ago
(2009-08-06 20:19:32)

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I use my ASUS EEE 1000H for Photoshop, games, watching videos, pluggin in and watching videos on my main TV. My EEE was actually much more powerfull than i had expected and the battery life time is amazing.