01-17-2011, 12:06 PM
[quote name='Yakim' timestamp='1295183499' post='5576']
Can you elaborate about the difference between a NetBook and a NoteBook? I thought both are small laptops.
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That's a fun question... don't mind if I chime in too...
I'd look at the earliest netbooks because that's when the term was coined up. Earliest netbooks ran limited operating systems and the machines were built primarily for browsing the internet and hence the name.
A notebook is a more featured computer... in terms of the processor and the operating systems.
For example, the Intel Atom CPU was made for netbook-like limited devices. Proper notebooks have real CPUs. The early operating systems of netbooks were modified and stripped down versions of Linux containing a browser and a few more tools... but notebooks have always had full versions of Windows running. Now, however, most netbooks run on the standard versions of Windows.
Also, I wouldn't use size as the classification criterion. I have a 1Kg 8.9" swivel touchscreen Fujitsu tablet PC/notebook (P1610) with a proper 1.2GHz Intel Centrino CPU, running Windows Vista, belonging to a design that easily predates netbooks. By today's standards, it may be slower than certain netbooks, but it's still a notebook <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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That's my 2 cents as a computer scientist <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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GTW
Can you elaborate about the difference between a NetBook and a NoteBook? I thought both are small laptops.
[/quote]
That's a fun question... don't mind if I chime in too...
I'd look at the earliest netbooks because that's when the term was coined up. Earliest netbooks ran limited operating systems and the machines were built primarily for browsing the internet and hence the name.
A notebook is a more featured computer... in terms of the processor and the operating systems.
For example, the Intel Atom CPU was made for netbook-like limited devices. Proper notebooks have real CPUs. The early operating systems of netbooks were modified and stripped down versions of Linux containing a browser and a few more tools... but notebooks have always had full versions of Windows running. Now, however, most netbooks run on the standard versions of Windows.
Also, I wouldn't use size as the classification criterion. I have a 1Kg 8.9" swivel touchscreen Fujitsu tablet PC/notebook (P1610) with a proper 1.2GHz Intel Centrino CPU, running Windows Vista, belonging to a design that easily predates netbooks. By today's standards, it may be slower than certain netbooks, but it's still a notebook <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' />That's my 2 cents as a computer scientist <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' />GTW