Saturday, October 17, 2009

Netbook Computers

Netbook (nettop, mini-notebook or subnotebook) - a small, lightweight, low-power notebook that is designed primarily for surfing the Internet. It has less computing power than a full-size laptop is still suitable for word processing, running a web browser and a wireless connection to the Internet.

Netbooks fall into a category of small sized computers. These computers were names such as subnotebooks and ultra-portable, mini-laptop, nettop, CloudBook and knownUltra-Mobile PC. The name netbook is currently the most popular marketing slogan. As a rule, a netbook a stripped down operating system, a smaller keyboard, a smaller screen and less storage space.

Netbook was originally created to education market, or consumers who might want a second computer are the target netbooks gain a broader base of consumers now that budgets are tight and consumers around the world begin to feel comfortable with applications and media in theCloud.

Software - usually no netbook have no software that run the operating system supports. The hardware architecture is similar to its big brother, laptop and personal computers, of course, it is easy to port the large, modern operating systems Netbook.

Operating system - since January 2009, most netbooks come pre-installed with Windows XP. Microsoft has extended the availability of Windows XP for ultra low-cost PCs in June to 2008June 2010 to discourage them netbooks market share at the expense of desktops, and "value" of laptops and to prevent the wider adoption of Linux installations on netbooks.

Other half of the netbook operating system now takes only 10% of the current market. Since January 2009 is the second most popular Linux operating system to Windows. As Linux systems in general software installation from an Internet software repository, they do not need an optical drive to install software. But by the earlyDo not use netbooks like the ASUS Eee PC on this performance by disabling access to the full spectrum of available Linux software.



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