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NetBooks To Get Serious Performance Boost Next Year

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 19th Dec 2008 23:26 UTC

There might be a lot of companies stating that netbooks are just a fad, and that the whole thing will pass (Sony, Apple), but that isn't stopping several chip companies from putting serious effort into improving the performance of these small netbooks. NVIDIA, AMD, and VIA are all hard at work at improving several aspects of netbook computing.

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RE: Not the killer app

by Earl Colby pottinger on Sat 20th Dec 2008 04:34 UTC in reply to "Not the killer app"

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2005-07-06

I think we get bigger bank for the buck with faster SSDs rather than more powerful CPUs.

I thought these devices were IO bound already, speeding up the CPUs gives little benefits in that case.

What I really want to see is lower power for the support chips and battery life reaching near triple digits in hours.

Of-course, I say this as a person who want to take one on one week canoe trips.

Any chance we see one with solar cells built-in for recharging?

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RE[2]: Not the killer app

by Johann Chua on Sat 20th Dec 2008 05:28 in reply to "RE: Not the killer app"

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2005-07-22

I think you'd be better off with a windup charger than solar cells, unless there's some sort of super power-saving design break-through.

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RE[3]: Not the killer app

by mmu_man on Sat 20th Dec 2008 05:45 in reply to "RE[2]: Not the killer app"

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2006-09-30

You know recently in some clubs they have people dancing generate their own power for the light from the floor...
though it's probably a bad idea to jump on your laptop to recharge it

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