2009年4月13日星期一

It was no April Fool's joke--selling small laptop computers as little as $50 !

One of the earliest signs of this shift came Apr. 1, when AT&T began selling small laptop computers Dell XPS M1330 battery in Atlanta and Philadelphia for as little as $50 to people who also signed up to get at-home and mobile broadband services for two years. It was no April Fool's joke.
AT&T, the biggest U.S. phone company, is "very pleased with the early results" and is considering introducing the offer nationwide, says David Haight, vice-president of business development for emerging device organization at AT&T. He wouldn't provide details on the results so far. Rival Verizon Wireless plans to offer small, inexpensive laptops Dell XPS M1210 battery called netbooks to customers this quarter. Other carriers are expected to follow suit.
There are more than 200 on the road in the United States, some in the hands of celebrity customers like George Clooney and Michael Dell.
Tesla has been financed with dot-com money. Elon Musk, who briefly attended Queen's University, founded e-commerce company PayPal, which was sold to eBay in 2002 for $1.5-billion. Musk's money was in the first round of financing in Tesla in 2004.
But this only goes so far, so what follows are my observations and opinions based on using five assorted netbooks. The vast majority of computer Dell Vostro 1710 battery reviews deal with new machines and their assorted features. Not this article. This is more about living with a netbook – well after the new toy high has dissipated.
"Consumer laptops are designed to sit on a desk or table in a home environment and not be taken out of that environment too often, whereas a business notebook is built to be regularly carried around, used in many different locations and treated in a more rugged way," says HP Australia's market development manager for commercial notebooks, Janet Bradburn.
This tells the browser to resize its window to the standard netbook Dell XX327 battery resolution. Windows users will find that Internet Explorer interprets this differently, if at all.
The frame of a business laptop is often cast from an advanced material such as magnesium alloy, which offers durability and is lightweight. Some models encase the internal circuitry in a magnesium alloy "roll cage" for added protection.
Well, how about most anyone with computing needs that extend much beyond e-mail, Web surfing, office-type tasks, and listening to MP3s? Netbook processors (mostly Intel Atom) are compact and energy efficient, yet they're feeble compared with the Core 2 Duo or AMD Turion dual-core processors that grace even slightly larger laptops XX337 battery.
The 10-inch netbook screens are generally 1,024-by-600 resolution, or thereabouts. Their keyboards are all less than full size, some painfully so. Many can't even run Photoshop (though they should fare better with Photoshop Elements), and they are stumped by most of our other performance tests as well. If you regularly edit photos or videos, a netbook will likely prove a ticket to frustration. As for 3D gaming, fuhgeddaboutit.

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