Saturday's Apple: What's With These Netbooks?

[Magnus]

Starting with Asus and the eeePC, more and more companies have jumped on the bandwagon with what’s become labeled as netbooks. These are usually really small notebooks, about 1kg or less, 9 or 10-inch screens, relatively low power and performance processors, low cost, etc. They’re the very symbol of compromise in many ways but they are meant to be mobile, temporary workstations for those who live in “the cloud”.

Another trend which feeds into the netbook craze is that of “the cloud”. Even Apple is now living in the cloud with their MobileMe service. The cloud basically means the internet and the idea is that we put more and more information online and we run web applications rather than applications on our desktops, in our regular OS, like Windows or Mac OS X. Google’s recently announced Chrome web browser is another good example of the cloud since it’s arguably aimed at users who spend most of their time using online applications and putting their information online.

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