Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 24th Feb 2009 18:22 UTC
Chip company ARM is prepping to make its move into the netbook market, and now it has shown off a few prototype designs that really show off the benefits of using the ARM platform: thanks to passive cooling, no fans are required, enabling ARM netbooks to be much thinner and lighter than their Intel counterparts. Thanks to ZDNet, we have a nice video overview of these ARM netbooks - as well as a few very tiny ARM desktop machines.
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My son is currently a uni student, and he recently bought a netbook because of its ultra-portability. He can use it at Uni and the small screen and keyboard is not too much of a price to pay in return for the portability.
When he gets home, however ... he just plugs it into the mains to recharge, and he plugs in a USB mouse and an external LCD monitor ... and he now has two screens, one of which is large enough to be no compromise. He doesn't bother with a bigger keyboard though.
His cheap netbook is now perfectly fine to use for doing homework assignments and papers.