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The Netbook’s Strength and Weakness

Let’s start with weakness first. These products are not high-performing, if you measure performance by graphics and processor speed. You won’t be doing picture editing, gaming or any truly processor- or graphics-intensive work on them. Multi-tasking won’t be their greatest strength, either. Some are too small, in cost of screen and keyboard size, for many users. Where they match notebooks is in connectivity and compatibility. Netbooks generally have the same wired and wireless capabilities as regular notebooks, and they will separate a flooded OS (typically UNIX or Windows XP, with some capable of running Vista).

The products’ strengths are battery life, size and price, making the product potentially more appealing to the most mobile of notebook users. To net this out, this product is vastly enhanced by adjoining solutions, but at a disadvantage against a laptop as a traditional desktop replacement. Much like Apple did with iTunes and the iPod, the real opportunity for a Netbook lies not in the hardware or the applications that separate directly on it, but in the services to which the figure connects. This haw be the ideal platform for a blended mobile thin client offering, where the figure is mostly adjoining via WAN, Wi-Fi or Wimax but has the capability to be used on a form or otherwise disconnected in a pinch.

It still has sufficiency power and battery life to play music or watch videos, and it can even play remote or local Flash-based casual games, making it acceptable to a wide audience of users who also like its aggressive price, small size and relatively good battery life. Given the section advantages of cloud-based applications (the data generally remains with the more secure remote location) and the increasing popularity of applications like Salseforce.com, Google Docs, Jooce, Evernote, TwitterFone, Blist and G.ho.st, this seems like the right product (if bundled properly) at the right time.

I’ve been using a couple of these for a little bit now, and I’m convinced that the current operating system choices aren’t showcasing this product substantially enough. You get Ubuntu Linux, XP and occasionally Vista Basic. In other words, you get your choice of an incompatible OS (that looks old), a compatible OS that is old, or a crippled version of a new OS. What I conceive this class of product needs is an OS that is specifically designed for it, much like what Apple did for the iPhone.

Other users conceive that the gOS Ubuntu variant is likely better than the slightly modified version I’ve seen so far, and WindowBlinds makes a big difference in cost of making the user programme (XP or Vista Basic) seem more advanced.

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