There’s been a lot of talk about so-called smartbooks in 2009. These netbook-like mini-laptops have low power ARM-based processors and are designed to get excellent battery life while maintaining a ...
Wondering why smartbooks have failed to arrive on the market this year? Adobe’s Flash technology and tablet devices like the iPad may be to blame for diminshied interest in this emerging category of ...
Along with tablets, smartbooks are one of the surging new trends in portable computers. But is it any clearer what they can actually do? We check out a few at CES 2010. I started with CNET reviewing ...
Microsoft doesn’t plan to offer a version of Windows for so-called “smartbooks,” leaving the space open to Linux, Google’s Android and other operating systems. Smartbooks are a new class of device ...
Remember that Wistron PurseBook we peeked back in early April? Yeah, that's not just some one-off creation to wow folks on a show floor. We just sat down with Qualcomm to hear all about the newest ...
Where Netbooks use an Intel Atom processor and, typically, Windows XP, the forthcoming smartbooks will feature ARM chip designs and Linux. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, ...
Are smartbooks going to fizzle like MIDs and UMPCs, take over the market like smartphones and netbooks or just confuse things for a while? Would an Apple tablet change any of that? After Microsoft ...
What if I told you there was an ultralight device that put all the functionality of a powerful tablet into the thinnest, lightest laptop you ever saw? It exists. It could be great. And it’s dying ...
Microsoft doesn’t plan to offer a version of Windows for so-called “smartbooks,” leaving the space open to Linux, Google’s Android and other operating systems. Smartbooks are a new class of device ...
There are two major trends in the netbook space today. On the one hand, PC makers are putting out ultraportable laptops with bigger screens and keyboards and faster processors. We’re talking 11 and 12 ...
Qualcomm have been sharing their plans to take on Intel and the netbook market with a range of Snapdragon-powered Smartbooks. Bearing a similar design and ethos to the Wistron demo unit spotted back ...