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YellowGal
Location: Minnesota
Great Information
Date:August 5, 2010
I had never really understood the difference between laptops and notebooks -- this was very helpful. This info will help me decide what I am buying for my next computer -- laptop or desktop
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ernel
Location: dubai
hi-tect and save space, easy go lucky
Date:August 5, 2010
Buy only those electronics can be upgrade easily at lowest price in the legitemate shop or accridited retail shops. ask a receipt.
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Mako
Location: California
Helpful article, needs a little polish
Date:August 4, 2010
The article hit the high points well enough, but could be improved with a discussion on battery life between recharging and the impact of SSDs vs. hard drives on battery life, speed and $ costs a little better.
I would also like to see Ubuntu Netbook Edition discussed as an option in the netbook line. This option would lower the purchase price a considerable amount (allowing families to afford more than one netbook, say one for each child) and provide more capabilities/features than any of the handicapped Windows "Home" or "Media" versions.
For example, Win7 Home does not allow you to create a share for any directory you want (say C:\shares\MySharedStuff\ )as you can in Win7 Professional and Ultimate and Ubuntu.
Win7 Home locks you into using the Win7 "Library", which is far less flexible. You have to pay for the Premium or Ultimate versions of Win7 to get those missing features.
Win7 while reasonably fast and very feature complete in the Pro and Ultimate versions, requires a 3rd party antivirus and security product, which is yet another cost that is mostly hidden behind a "trialware" 30 to 90 day demo period.
Antivirus software also impacts system performance negatively, which is critical for netbooks in particular, as they have much less capable CPUs and limited resources like memory and disk space, than a full laptop has.
An Ubuntu option can save customers the costs of both Windows and antivirus software licenses with the bonus that a resource limited netbook is very likely to run faster and be able to handle more demanding applications without the extra demands placed on it by the antivirus software.
Even if only 10% of customers selected an Ubuntu netbook, the positive press and HP offers customers Choice "glow" could be worth the modestly higher costs of adding one more SKU to the product line.
