Windows 7 Draws the Future for Netbooks
Touch Screen EEE PC T91
Windows 7 RC1 has been out for a while and will expire license in a while as well. In March of 2010, Windows 7 will start thinking by itself and will make your laptop/netbooks reboot themselves after every 2 hours. Many users have tried and I like to try it too. One of the many features that Windows 7 offers is its great support for touchscreens. And while there’s not a lot of laptops and netbooks with touchscreen, why did Microsoft built Windows 7?
Apart from the touchscreen features, Windows 7 has a lot more to offer including fresh new look, more memory-friendly compared to Vista or XP, improved speed and responsiveness and most importantly, it runs very well on Atom-powered devices. Microsoft has announced stoppage of support for Windows XP but has been extended and extended and extended again. Right now, I don’t have any idea if it’s really gonna end.
Now, based from a report (Digitimes), touch panel makers are seeing netbook makers coming their way to order bulks of touchscreens for netbooks. They believe that netbook makers are going to utilize the touchscreen potential of Windows 7 and that’s pretty nice. Consumers will more likely shift to touchscreen netbooks soon, however, there will be a slight or maybe large increase in pricing. Touch panels costs $2.5 – $3 per inch, and while most netbooks today measures 10.1″ to 12″, you can do the math. Report also says that touchscreen panels might replace the current touchpad we use, though I think it’s bad idea.
When netbooks adopt touchscreen for good, I think there might as well be a battle of Android and Windows 7. Android shows a lot of potential as well when it comes to ‘touchscreen-ability’, at least in some mobile phones.
via Liliputing
Acer’s Android Netbook will ship with Windows
Acer recently announced their plan to build netbooks that run Google Android OS and they actually showed a demo during Computex. The demo showed an Acer Aspire One D250 and Firefox as well.
In Digitime’s report, the Google Android OS will actually comes in as dual boot with Windows. Acer chairman JT Wang it is much safer for the company since the consumer acceptance for the new operating system is still unclear.
Wang added that Acer will cooperate with telecom providers to sell the netbook. He also mentioned that Acer still plans to launch Android-only netbooks.
