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These tables provide a comparison of netbooks.. Aspects of netbooks that should be considered: Mouse layout that is used. Touchpad with 2-buttons below, or touchpad with buttons on each side.
Netbooks are small laptops, with screen sizes between approximately 7 and 12 inches and low power consumption.They use either an SSD (solid state disk) or a HDD (hard disk drive) for storage, have up to 2 gigabytes of RAM (but often less), lack an optical disk drive, and usually have USB, Ethernet, WiFi and often Bluetooth connectivity.
ASUS announced two Eee PC models at Computex Taipei 2007: the 701 and the 1001. [7] The 701 base model Eee PC 4G was released on 16 October 2007 in Taiwan. Three additional models followed. Both the price and the size of the device are small in comparison with similar ultra-mobile PCs.
A new HP notebook similar in appearance to the Mini-Note, called the HP Mini 1000 Vivienne Tam Edition, was unveiled in October 2008, with a launch expected for December that year. [18] The small pink computer is a collaboration with fashion designer Vivienne Tam , and has a 10-inch screen, a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor, 1 GB of RAM, and an 80 ...
Initial entries in the Solo lineup were manufactured on an OEM basis by the Japanese company Sanyo. [2] The Solo was the first laptop to have a Windows key and a Menu key , which respectively activate the Start menu and context menus in Windows (the Start menu first appeared in Windows 95). [ 3 ]
The Dell Inspiron Mini 9 (also called the Inspiron 910), was announced on September 4, 2008, as a netbook set to contend with other low-cost ultra-portables such as the ASUS Eee PC and Acer Aspire One.
In October 2003, Psion Teklogix announced the NetBook Pro, replacing the original netBook. This was similar to the earlier model, but upgraded with a 16-bit colour Super VGA (SVGA, 800 × 600 pixel) display, 128 MB of RAM, and a 400 MHz Intel XScale PXA255 processor running Windows CE.NET Framework 4.2 instead of EPOC. [2]
The IdeaPad S10 was Lenovo's first netbook. [4] While Engadget found the design unremarkable, the low starting price was well-received. [4] The S10 featured a 10.2-inch (260 mm) TFT active matrix 1024×576 or 1024×600 display with an 80 or 160 GB hard disk drive and 512 MB or 1 GB DDR2 Random Access Memory, both of which could be upgraded via a trap door on the bottom of the netbook.