Techcrunch is reporting that market forecaster DisplaySearch released their findings from the second quarter worldwide shipments showing a 2 to 1 growth rate for netbooks vs. notebooks. Europe leads the charge with 32.9 percent share of the netbook market and the US following close behind at 26.6 percent. Does this mean the netbooks will be
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Engadget is reporting that Acer is moving up as the world’s number 2 producer of personal computers. Not too surprising as I write this entry on my Aspire One netbook from Acer. Many are shocked by this and I have to wonder why? Acer reflects what mainstream consumers have long desired, just good enough quality to
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Over the weekend, Gigaom has an interesting observation at this year’s SXSW. It seems people are pulling out their smartphones to sync up rather than using a laptop/netbook/etc. I am noticing this trend at airports as well. It seems that the tech on smartphones are at the point where business tasks can be performed without
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So you want to help your spouse job hunting efforts by using tech. First thing you want is an affordable laptop for web building and blogging. You head to the nearest Best Buy only to be slammed with terms like netbook, sub-notebook, MIDs, UMPC. Follow the handy flowchart provided by The Register and you too
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