npd.com - 6/24/2009
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How many new netbook owners had planned to buy laptops or Smartphones, but chose netbooks instead? How many Smartphone switchers are out there? Where are consumers using their netbooks? You may be surprised! What are they doing on netbooks, and what software do they use? Are netbooks meeting, ...
reviews.digitaltrends.com - 6/25/2009
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Netbooks make fine travel machines for surfing, typing
and watching videos, but as most new owners eventually...
discover, things start to get a little slow when you push too far beyond the basics. After all, 1.6GHz and 1GB of RAM can only take ...
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Netbook study finds that netbook buyers don't know what netbooks are
Engadget —
... Oh noes! According to some market research dudes, the average consumer cannot tell the difference between a netbook and a notebook. We're inclined to believe that this is simply because the average consumer hasn't perused this handy chart, but what do we know? Of ...
Netbook wars continue in the midst of "consumer confusion"
Ars Technica —
... As netbook sales continue to escalate out of sight, models and
manufacturers proliferate, and new platforms battle for supremacy in
the marketplace and in the minds of consumers and OEMs, analysts
continue to debate the suitability of netbook hardware to consumer
needs. NPD's most recent report on netbooks ...
Study Finds that Netbook Consumers Unaware They're Buying Netbooks
Maximum PC —
... According to some resent research by The NPD Group, many of the people that are buying netbooks don’t know that they’re doing so.
Sure, the two names may sound familiar (notebook and netbook), but a whopping 60 percent of the people that purchased a netbook expected the same functionality as a notebook. Needless to say, the confusion has led to some irritation.
“We need to make sure consumers are buying a PC intended for what they plan to do with it,” stated Stephen Baker, vice president of industry analysis at NPD. “There is a serious risk of cannibalization ...
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Thumbing Windows 7 onto Netbooks
news.cnet.com 6/26/2009 —
Microsoft has shown Windows 7 running on Netbooks ever since it introduced the operating system last fall. However, helping consumers get it on their notebooks has proven more tricky. (Credit: Ina Fried/CNET)
Microsoft is considering offering ...
Why You Should Buy a Netbook
futurelooks.com 6/29/2009 — It seems that netbooks are the hottest things since sliced bread. At the same time, you might remember my article a while back that explained why netbooks are already obsolete. In the interest of fairness and balance, I thought it would only be ...
Rumour: ARM-based netbooks later this year
bit-tech.net 3/16/2009 — Netbooks based on Qualcomm and Freescale's ARM CPUs are rumoured to be scheduled for launch at Computex this year, while the OLPC project encourages Microsoft to code an ARM-compatible version of Windows
Are Netbooks Already Obsolete?
futurelooks.com 3/3/2009 — For a number of reasons, netbooks have quickly risen in popularity among the general populace. Everyone seems to swoon over these little laptops and their ability to shove the entirety of the Internet into such a small package. At the same time, ...
A closer look at the Core i7-940
techreport.com 12/12/2008 — We first tested a "simulated" Core i7-940 by underclocking a Core i7-965 Extreme, but we missed a couple of the "uncore" clocks, including the one that governs the L3 cache. Just how much do those clocks affect performance, and how does a real Core i7 ...
A closer look at fresh versus used SSD performance
techreport.com 5/27/2009 — The block rewrite penalty inherent to flash memory has interesting performance implications for SSDs. As we've discovered, some SSD controllers cope much better than others when facing well-used drives.
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