Over the last few months, there have been loads of UMPC (Ultra Mobile PCs) come onto the market.
Clearly Asus started it all with their EeePC however everybody has now jumped on the band wagon and the term netbook has been used widely.
Now depending on who you choose to listen to, a netbook is a device that allows you to connect to the net and access all the wonderful Web 2.0 services via a browser. One would not expect such a device to be running CPU intensive applications as this is not the purpose of such a device.
Ideally you will have a light OS (Linux is the one of choice right now but my own thoughts on why this should be Windows Mobile are well known) and a browser and not a lot more. This should all be in an inexpensive, small and light device that has a good battery life.
But hang on.
A lot of users are loading Windows XP onto their netbook. Indeed there are a number now showing with Vista which of course is not well suited to a low power device.
So I think we are kidding ourselves.
I don’t believe everybody wants a netbook. I think really everybody just wants a cheap laptop and you know what? I actually think that they are going to get it.
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