Google’s Android to run laptops challenge Microsoft
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Google’s Android to run laptops challenge Microsoft
Business Mirror
Asustek Computer Inc. pioneer of the sub-$500 laptops known as netbooks also has developed a model that runs on Google?s software chairman Jonney Shih said. The adoption of Android-based netbooks may eat into Windows?s share of about 90 percent worldwide for personal computer (PC) operating systems. Google?s move escalates pressure on Microsoft as it prepares to introduce Windows 7 said Calvin Huang an analyst at Daiwa Securities Group Inc. ?This is a negative and may force Microsoft to lower the price of Windows 7? said Huang who covers the computer industry from Taipei. ?More and more vendors are adopting Android and non-Windows in their products so this is a very good chance for Android to penetrate the PC market. ? Acer?s Android-based Aspire ne netbook will be cheaper than the Windows XP model though the two products will have the same electronic components such as Intel Corp.
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Why buying secondhand should become part of the PC process
guardian.co.uk
It does make me wonder just how over-engineered even the simplest netbook must be. If we take the ability to play YouTube or DVDs as the baseline for what anyone will want from a net-connected device then it has for almost a decade been impossible to buy a PC that isn’t fast enough. So if it is now impossible to buy a new computer that isn’t powerful enough ? and this is true I think even of the humblest.
Tech Talk: Don’t need to be a whiz for PC upgrade
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com | The Advertiser. The owner falls in love with the speed at which the applications load and start-up times are brisk and painless.
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