Whats the difference between notebooks, netbooks and ultra-mobile PCs?
What’s the difference between notebooks, netbooks and ultra-mobile PCs? In early 2008, the mobile computer landscape was dominated by laptop computers. There were a few alternatives to traditional laptops — tablet PCs, advanced PDAs and even a few smartphones could perform many basic computing tasks. But the laptop computer set the standard for mobile computing — some companies offered laptops that were nearly as powerful as their desktop counterparts. A year later, the traditional laptop faces some competition in the mobile computing market. It can be confusing for consumers — there’s a host of new terms and categories to take into consideration when shopping for a mobile computer. There are laptops, notebooks, netbooks and ultra-mobile PCs. But what’s the difference? Are the terms interchangeable? Are they well-defined? The answer to these quest
