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19 Nov 09

What ChromeOS Means For Netbooks And Why Microsoft Needs To Be Scared

  • Android will replace Windows Mobile as the “default” smartphone operating system. Thus far, if a manufacturer didn’t have their own OS or wasn’t in bed with a certain provider, they chose Windows Mobile. That operating system is still popular with a certain subset of user, namely users with lazy IT departments or computer owners cursed with the inability to download and install odd syncing software. Android will change all that.
  • My prediction is this: netbooks, as we know, them will come with ChromeOS as a boot option. Ultrathin laptops (think the Air or the HP Envy 13) will come with Windows 7. Netbook configuration, then, will consist of entering your IMAP and SMTP info, a few social media credentials, and maybe uploading a picture of your dog as a background image. The rest – installing apps, buying games (other than Android/ChromeOS games), and running Microsoft Office – will be gone, thrust into the cloud.
19 Jun 09

Five reasons to seriously consider buying a netbook - Ars Technica

  • many netbook users are choosing to tether instead, sharing an internet connection on a smart phone rather than buying a netbook-specific data plan. Tethering is a morally gray area, as many of the phones that are being used to tether with do not explicitly allow this in their contract terms and conditions. Tethering also means you have to coordinate two devices (instead of using hardware already built into a netbook) and have to watch battery usage on both. Tethering, you'll be unsurprised to hear, can drain a phone's battery very quickly.
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