Amy Yang asked:




The HP Mini 1137NR 10.1 Inch Netbook can be a good ultra portable solution. It only weighs in at 2.45 pounds! Very lightweight. And with a thickness of less than an inch, it really is easy to carry around.

It has a lot of pros. One, it comes equipped with an HP

Mika Staplesson asked:




Comparing the two categories may sound a bit forced to some people, but there is a system to the madness. Since most netbooks are cheaper than $499, the price of an iPad, it makes a lot of sense to put them against each other.

Netbooks have been around for quite a while now, 3 whole years actually, a lot of time to hone everything to perfection, which Asus has done apparently. In the other corner iPad is relatively lonely in its category, being the only real tablet that can be used without applying several hacks just to get through the day.

Netbooks have the distinctive benefit from the three years they’ve spent on the market without real contenders. When you buy a netbook you know exactly what it is you’re actually buying; a screen 10 or 12 inches big, a reasonable set of chips to get you through the daily tasks, and a keyboard to tell the computer what it needs to know.

On the other hand iPad, the tablet has a lot of proving to do. It has been on the shelves for a month, most parts of the world haven’t seen it sold through official channels either. There are lots of expectations to live up to and the hardware is very thin to do that. Maybe it’s the software that does the majority of the work?

On netbooks you can run basically any operating system the hardware can take, and the x86 architecture has seen a few decades go by. What it means is that it runs all versions of Windows including XP, Vista and 7, and I’m fairly confident to say that you could get a Windows 98 running if you were determined enough.

IPad runs its own variation of Apple’s operating system. It’s a far cousin of the OSX and basically the thing you see on an iPhone. Or iPod touch, to be more precise. The hardware is under seven locks, but it is supposedly an ARM based technology, which means there is not going to be a way to run anything you like.

You get iPhone OS whether you like it or not. Not that it’s a bad thing; Apple has hit the nail on the head when it allowed iPad to run all iPhone applications. That means more than a hundred thousand different apps available through apple store, well done!

Netbooks get to have a physical QWERTY keyboard that comes really handy when you need to create content or answer a great deal of e-mails. The product from Apple puts a virtual keyboard in front of you that may seem like a great way to put in text, but once you are at the level of 70 words per minute, dropping back to 15 is not a great option.

Without accessories iPad is just a fancy way of updating your Facebook status, but netbooks are not the computing powerhouse some people would like to see them either.

Yolanda

Johnny Q asked:




I have to agree some companies have definitely changed the way we look at technology and the internet. Some of these companies have change the way tech savvy people such as myself look at a simple email while on the run. As soon as I received my iTouch I was hooked. We as the technology generation have continued to surpass the way we communicate with each other. My company runs of my iTouch and anything I complete it’s in my hands. I love the way technology and information just pours to my hands with a simple touch of a screen.

Now I was just amazed at all of the features that the new iPad has to offer. I just happen to watch the demo video and the first thing I notice was the slick design of it and the cool appearance that it just stands out. The iPad can use up to 140,000 apps available in the app store. One of the cool benefits is that it’s like a crossover between a laptop and the iTouch. It really is going to come in handy when I need to get some valuable information from the office and I can just jump on my iTouch and get anything available in the internet. This is business at its best; sure it’s fast, quick and in a hurry. Now If I can make the switch to a slick design and have all the easy to use technology it will definitely help. Like I said I’m one of those savvy tech people that like fast business in the speed of thought. If it gets things done quickly, then I like it.

One of the things that I notice was the price, starting at $500.00 dollars it seems to be competing against some of the top competitors. I asked my self why should I buy an iPad when for the same price I Can get a notebook? They are the same category of technology for sale. The iPad need to stand up to the name and the name of its makers, to demonstrate the agility of the way we do business or communicate with each other. One of the coolest features that I notice was the slick design in the keyboard. I thought the keyboard was out of this world. Now I hope that it’s like the regular keyboards that you can just act like it’s a regular keyboard. One of the problems that some technology companies have is that the iTouch and the iPhone do not have enough grunts to run a proper browser.

Some of the time when I’m browsing for me it just seems to browse the internet better with my laptop and not the iTouch, every time this happens it irritates me. Hopefully, for me if I am going to spend any kind of money in a gadget I want something that I’m not going to have trouble with.

But let’s not give the iPad a bad name. It now comes with three stores the iTunes Store, the App store and now the iBook store. Here is where you carry your own library around and get some cool books. This was a big plus for the iPad. I just wish that the technology gurus are going to deliver on this iPad because I will have high expectation of it. I will be looking forward to my iPad.

Barbara