Netbook and tablet buzz

I just configured a nice Samsung Netbook yesterday, and was pleasantly surprised by the Atom CPU. The darn thing even plays 720p video and manages Skype video calls without too much hassle.

The Celeron M Notebook I am trying to sort out for someone now runs slower.
 
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I am thinking about buying netbook just to use for online browsing and when I am away.I dont need anything powerfull so I am thinking about getting a Acer Aspire one. There is one one bidorbuy here which looks like a good price and has everything I need :)

Tell you how it is!
 
Gundam said:
I just configured a nice Samsung Netbook yesterday, and was pleasantly surprised by the Atom CPU. The darn thing even plays 720p video and manages Skype video calls without too much hassle.

The Celeron M Notebook I am trying to sort out for someone now runs slower.
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Hey which OS was on the samsung?
 
One of our clients got a few Gigabyte netbooks from Rectron this week. They were R2200(not sure if it was including) They had 1 gig of ram, and 160gb hdd, and came with Windows 7 Starter. So far I am pretty impressed with it! It ran really well the few seconds I spent on it! For the price I would say it could be worth it.
 
I'd guess that most manufacturers will probably hold back their ION based machines for when Abode introduces GPU-accelerated Flash in a few months. It seems like a sensible thing to do.
 
I've noticed that mybroadband manages to produce these reviews of smartphones, and now also netbooks and tablets, that entirely ignore Apple products as if they don't exist. (For example, a review a couple of months back of the "best smartphones" in the market, without mention of the iPhone. Any discussion with a randomly picked industry insider would reveal that the iPhone is at least a serious contender if not clear favourite for the title "best smartphone". Now the same with tablets: Apple just presented the iPad, and not even a mention of it here, even though there is at least a reasonable chance that this product will shake up the market to the same extent as the iPod has shaken up the MP3-player market, and as the iPhone has done with the smartphone market.

Why this weird anti-Apple stance by MBB?
 
robkowa said:
I've noticed that mybroadband manages to produce these reviews of smartphones, and now also netbooks and tablets, that entirely ignore Apple products as if they don't exist. (For example, a review a couple of months back of the "best smartphones" in the market, without mention of the iPhone. Any discussion with a randomly picked industry insider would reveal that the iPhone is at least a serious contender if not clear favourite for the title "best smartphone". Now the same with tablets: Apple just presented the iPad, and not even a mention of it here, even though there is at least a reasonable chance that this product will shake up the market to the same extent as the iPod has shaken up the MP3-player market, and as the iPhone has done with the smartphone market.

Why this weird anti-Apple stance by MBB?
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If i remember correctly, the thread about best smartphones was TOPPED by all the iPhone users? Everyone said +1 for iPhone?
 
I also found it strange that the iPad was not mentioned, it's been hyped up a lot the last few weeks.

Looks like this is going to be the newest market segment, the smartbook sector. Personally, netbooks annoy the crap out of me (mainly the screen size / resolution) so maybe smartbooks will be more suited to me.
 
robkowa said:
I've noticed that mybroadband manages to produce these reviews of smartphones, and now also netbooks and tablets, that entirely ignore Apple products as if they don't exist. (For example, a review a couple of months back of the "best smartphones" in the market, without mention of the iPhone. Any discussion with a randomly picked industry insider would reveal that the iPhone is at least a serious contender if not clear favourite for the title "best smartphone". Now the same with tablets: Apple just presented the iPad, and not even a mention of it here, even though there is at least a reasonable chance that this product will shake up the market to the same extent as the iPod has shaken up the MP3-player market, and as the iPhone has done with the smartphone market.

Why this weird anti-Apple stance by MBB?
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If you'd actually read the story, you'd notice that it was a summary of devices presented at CES, where Apple did not present its tablet.

Also,

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Cellular/11150.html

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Hardware/11221.html

There is no review article you speak of that leaves out the iPhone, go search for yourself, and this bias only exists in your mind. If at this point you did not already know about the iPad by the various articles on here, then you're probably braindead. If you want it to be mentioned every single time someone talks about 'some of the netbooks and tablets that users can look forward to in 2010', that's bordering on complete fanaticism. Maybe the article could have been a little more explicit for the Apple fanboys and said, 'Everyone in the tech world is prattling on about the iPad, here are a few other devices coming out this year.' Would it make you happy then?
 
Rudimental said:
If you'd actually read the story, you'd notice that it was a summary of devices presented at CES, where Apple did not present its tablet.

Also,

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Cellular/11150.html

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Hardware/11221.html

There is no review article you speak of that leaves out the iPhone, go search for yourself, and this bias only exists in your mind. If at this point you did not already know about the iPad by the various articles on here, then you're probably braindead. If you want it to be mentioned every single time someone talks about 'some of the netbooks and tablets that users can look forward to in 2010', that's bordering on complete fanaticism. Maybe the article could have been a little more explicit for the Apple fanboys and said, 'Everyone in the tech world is prattling on about the iPad, here are a few other devices coming out this year.' Would it make you happy then?
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Also the ipad isn't really a netbook afaik - it can't multitask and you wouldn't really be able to run your business from it (word processor, spreadsheet etc) unless you were entirely cloud-based
 
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