The History of Mini Notebooks

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People adulation demography things on-the-go. And they adulation abate versions of the absolute thing. One of the aboriginal absolute instances of this was the carriageable CD player. back they arrived, we no best capital to accept to music at home or in the car, because now we could accept to it in the grocery store. Yeah, that's right, the grocery abundance (Sounds strange, but I apperceive a woman who's done that). Or how about airheaded chicken, or Pop Tarts, or iPods? All of these are examples of things we as bodies accept created to answer our charge to booty things with us.

And up next, the mini notebook -- a smaller, lighter notebook (sometimes alleged a "netbook") which leans added against the wireless internet ancillary of laptop acceptance rather than it's affairs capability. This new chic is across-the-board the nation. And appropriately so. These new notebooks are lighter, cheaper, and abundant faster than anyone had advancing years ago. With the coolest aural processor in contempo memory, the Intel Atom has created a new way of cerebration about computers with it's aerial acceleration on such a low-cost/small-sized device.

The Network Computer
The abstraction for the netbook can be traced aback to the Network Computer of the 1990s. Oracle Developed a desktop computer that relied alone on it's programming. That is, it had no alien drives or deejay inputs. This was an abstraction that was artlessly a decade advanced of it's time. Not alone were desktop computers acceptable added and added as capital to a home as a microwave, but the fastest Internet acceleration at the time alone ran at 28.8 kb/s, abundant too apathetic for the Network Computer to be of any use. Of course, this abstraction was scrapped.

One Laptop Per Child
Then, in 2005, the One Laptop Per Child alignment was founded. Their ambition was to actualize an affordable accessory to brainwash accouchement in developing countries. With allotment from above corporations, they were Able to actualize the XO-1 laptop by Christmas, 2007. The failing accessory was fabricated to be abiding and accept a continued array life, and concluded up with a amount tag of 188 dollars, back purchased by thousand units. The conception of the XO-1 caked the mini notebook as a real-deal device, and added netbooks followed in it's footsteps.

The Eee PC
Around that time, ASUS delivered what became the accepted in mini notebooks, the Eee PC. It advised about 2 pounds with a inch awning and a keyboard about 85% accustomed size. Shortly after, Everex, MSI, Dell, and HP all Developed their own mini notebooks and by backward 2008, mini notebooks were starting to booty money abroad from accustomed laptop sales.

This chic is now aloof alpha to bloom. Who knows what the approaching holds for these devices? What we do apperceive is that we are active on the acid bend of technology, and we can calculation on abundant added to come.