A Small Revolution in Rugged Portable Computing
RuggedNetbook Trends for 2009
New small RuggedNetbooks are being embedded with 3G Wireless Technology and Solid State Drives (SSDs). Ruggednetbooks will be of interest to many buying demographics, because of their smaller size and smaller cost.
Netbooks are light-weight, low-cost, energy-efficient, and highly portable. Because of the size, weight and affordability, rugged-netbooks will offer fewer features. They won’t have a lot of processing power, or have operating systems that are resource hogs. Rugged netbooks will be best suited for web surfing, emailing, and web based applications.
These smaller portable computers will be great assets as backup computer gear for mobile workers, like digital nomads and road warriors. Digitalnomads have always expected to pay a premium for portability and usability, and these two features have always come with a price tag up until now. Manufacturers are finding that consumers want mobility and more wireless capabilities.
The desktop PC and desktop publishing are being replaced by laptops and ruggednetbooks to do the same jobs. Rugged Netbooks will be able to perform the most simple functions anyone would need in a mobile computer. Everyday tasks like word processing, scheduling, managing spreadsheets, email and internet access can all be done with a broadband wireless connection and open source software.
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Tagged with: 3G wireless • Intel Atom • Netbook • notebook alternative • solid state drives
Filed under: Netbook Technology
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