Articles in the Netbooks Category
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CultofMac reported a wonderful post showing a netbook with OSX86 & 80 running applications simultaneously. It proves the capability of both OSX and Netbook.According to CultofMac “I’ve been trying to determine Atom’s performances with Mac OS X for some time now, and I think this shows Atom’s netbooks are not so crippled!” Netbooks are a small fraction & growing very rapidly and grabbing a good amount of laptop market share. This experiment is answer for those who doubts the possibility of netbooks & Intel Atom Processor.
Hardware is:
* Atom N270 @1.6ghz
* …
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I have used Vista on two netbooks, and it’s never been good. In fact, Vista has been unusable in both circumstances. Then I loaded Windows 7 onto the Mini 12.
Dell Inspiron Mini 12, a 12-inch Atom netbook with 1GB of RAM, I liked the hardware just fine but complained that Vista was too slow to even be considered as the OS. The system often lagged when just opening the Start menu, let alone launching real programs. It, like Vista on most netbooks, was little more than a novelty—something to be …
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I’ve had plenty of time to spend with Sony’s bite-sized Vaio P, and now it’s time to deliver a verdict on whether or not the 1.4-pound device really performs as advertised.
Sony’s Vaio P managed to generate some buzz at CES, largely based around its minuscule footprint, 1.4-pound weight and ultra-wide LCD screen. Sony aggressively marketed this device as not being a netbook, but rather as a full-functioning laptop. They even went as far as to install Windows Vista Home Basic on the Vaio P despite an Atom processor, and gave …

