Looking at smart books/netbooks, tablets have potential

Throughout this CES show, smart books and tablets are undoubtedly one of the hot spots in the information terminal field. If we must find a different smart book from a netbook, we should mainly focus on hardware and software configuration, its application scenarios have not changed much. Unlike netbooks that use Wintel, smart books generally use the arm-Linux architecture, which has the advantage of lower power consumption, for example, Lenovo's smart current battery can work for 10 hours, which can basically ensure the work needs of a day. However, compared with netbooks, the operating system has become a weakness, especially for Chinese consumers who are used to Windows operating systems.

In the old man's experience in using netbooks, Netbooks are just an extension of laptops to the low end. They are more straightforward. Netbooks are laptops, but the difference is that CPU is replaced with atom, users who buy netbooks seldom use netbooks and also have laptops. I believe this is also the main reason for the popularity of the netbook market, because most consumers prefer to use higher-end laptops.

With the foresight of the netbook, compared with the application of the smart book and the netbook, it is difficult to think about the smart book too much, although some people define the smart book as an intermediate product between the netbook and the smart phone (from smartbook to smartphone and netbook), in essence, the smart 10 inch screen only replaces the netbook of the processor. Even if the operator will hold the bid in the future, it will still compete with the traditional notebook, and it will be difficult to become the companion of the notebook, after all, from the perspective of applications, it is difficult for consumers to use Linux netbooks to satisfy their demands for computers. Linux's support for e-commerce and games is far less comprehensive than windows, therefore, although the smart society has a certain market like netbook, it is not a mass market like mobile phones and computers.

With the same processor and screen, the future of a tablet may be much brighter than that of smart phones, because it has full potential to become a companion to a computer or notebook, in ideapad U1 released by Lenovo, Lenovo uses the tablet computer as the display screen of the notebook computer to achieve perfect fusion between the two. The combination of the two is a real notebook, and the separation is a tablet computer, the reason why tablets are regarded as laptops is that compared with the smart book, tablets are more suitable for hands-on operations, while smart books can only be placed on desktops or legs for operations, the operating habits of using mobile phones expand the space used by tablet computers, or the tablet is a computer-based mobile phone, while the smart is a mobile computer, and the smart is an extension of the notebook to the low end, A tablet is a mobile phone or smart phone upgraded to a high-end. Although the configurations are similar, they give consumers a very different feeling.

From netbooks to smart computers, this is the result of continuous innovation by computer manufacturers or intel. From mid to tablet computers, it is the driving force of mobile phone manufacturers or arm. The real competition between Intel and arm has just begun, according to the old man's judgment, although the smart book and netbook have a certain market, the epoch product form should appear in the form of tablet computers, tablet computers or Mid prospects are unlimited. (Author, old author)

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