Amazon Announces 4 New Kindle devices...

[sabredog]

I have a microfilm reader if you want one.....

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by kennyc

I want a nano-book...um...nanonotebook...nanonote...quantumlapto p...??

I'll see your nanonote and raise you a piconote

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by sabredog

I have a microfilm reader if you want one.....

Oh wow, I remember using those in the library for research.

Thanks for the Memory!

(not that I'd want it to come back )

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

I'll see your nanonote and raise you a piconote

anyone for femto? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femto-

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by kennyc

anyone for femto? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femto-

Playing hardball, are we? Raise my yoctonote if you dare

[emellaich]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Playing hardball, are we? Raise my yoctonote if you dare

Well, there is the invisi

http://www.engadget.com/2005/11/20/s...invisa-on-snl/

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by emellaich

Well, there is the invisi

http://www.engadget.com/2005/11/20/s...invisa-on-snl/

Very appropriate: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20...-sales-record/

[HarryT]

I've never understood the desire for smaller and smaller notebooks. For me, with big fingers, the keyboard rapidly gets too small to use. I had a netbook but sold it and bought a notebook with an 11.6" screen instead; for me, that's the smallest screen that results in a keyboard that I can actually comfortably use.

[frahse]

Originally Posted by kennyc

I want a nano-book...um...nanonotebook...nanonote...quantumlapto p...??

You want a UMPC.
Go visit Chippy at UMPC Portal, and CarryPad.

The problem with those like the Viliv, Everrun, OoO and other Ultra Mobiles was that there wasn't enough of a market, but Chippy and some others still are trying.

[DreamWriter]

Originally Posted by HarryT

I've never understood the desire for smaller and smaller notebooks. For me, with big fingers, the keyboard rapidly gets too small to use.

Portability, I guess.

I agree with you on the netbook keyboards. Although I did find a Dell netbook that seemed comfortable to type on, all the others I've tried are awkward. My fingers are quite slender, so I'm not sure how someone with big hands can type on those things.

[frahse]

Originally Posted by DreamWriter

Portability, I guess.

I agree with you on the netbook keyboards. Although I did find a Dell netbook that seemed comfortable to type on, all the others I've tried are awkward. My fingers are quite slender, so I'm not sure how someone with big hands can type on those things.

It is very difficult if you have any kind of a big hand. The ladies seem to do all right with them, and smaller people including kids.
The minimum I can really touch type on is something like a 12.3 inch. For the 11.6 Air, I have to hold my hands kind of funny and they will get cramped.. Mind you I am good with my hands, and am a amateur Keyboardist (Piano and Organ).

[pilotbob]

Wow... this thread has really drifted off topic.

The idea of a netbook I think is that you don't do much typing. The keyboard on my phone is tiny, but for the amount of "typing" I do on it, it is perfectly adequate.

BOb

[frahse]

Originally Posted by tompe

Then you should know that they were called subnotebooks. My Dell Latitude 420 is a subnotebook and not a notebook. Notebook is just another word for laptop.

It probably is just a loose term. I saw your machine being described as a Ultra Portable with a 12.1 inch screen.

But over on the Dell site, they had a heading:
Dell Laptops and Notebooks

and under that heading was two Alienware machines with 11.6 inch screens.

There is another factor as well and that is the Aspect ratio. With the new 16:10, 16:9 ratios instead of a 4:3 ratio a 12.1 screen today will have a different total width than the old ones.

e.g. a 19" 4:3 has a vertical height of a 24" to 26" 16:9 TV.

I like the old 4:3 ratios because it proportions a book better. To get the same vertical height today, you have to get a bigger screen.

[pilotbob]

I think "laptop" and "notebook" are pretty synonymous these days.

Where as Netbook is used for a lower powered device (not necessarily size) that is designed to be used mainly for Web Apps or low power requirement apps like email, calendar, to-do lists, etc.

BOb

[tompe]

Originally Posted by frahse

It probably is just a loose term. I saw your machine being described as a Ultra Portable with a 12.1 inch screen.

I think wikipedia reflects the usage as I have seen it.

"A subnotebook (also called an ultraportable or mini notebook) is a class of laptop computers that are smaller and lighter than a typical laptop."