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Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 11 review: a netbook by another name
Author: Jade Kim
A few years ago, netbooks were small, light, inexpensive, often underpowered computers — and the word quickly became a pejorative term, to be used only with the greatest of disdain as you throw your netbook out the window. Then came ultrabooks — small, light, inexpensive, often underpowered computers that have taken the PC market by storm. The more things change, the more they stay the same. So while Lenovo may call its new IdeaPad Yoga 11 an ultrabook, make no mistake: it’s a netbook. This is a bag-sized, two-pound, $ 599 laptop that runs low-end software on low-end hardware. It does have a handy touchscreen, plus an ultrapliable hinge that turns the laptop into a tablet and a bunch of other things besides, but it’s a netbook.
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Smartwatch Market Could Be A Third The Size Of The Netbook Market This Year (Maybe)
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It’s almost like Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft have actually launched smartwatches. Except of course they haven’t. But who cares! Analyst house ABI Research has been stroking its collective beard and come up with a forecast for the size of the nascent smartwatch market. And — drum roll please! — it reckons you can bank on more than 1.2 million of the wrist-strapped gizmos shipping this year.
Put another way, that’s about as many Raspberry Pi microcomputers shipped in its first year on sale. Or just over a third as many netbooks are predicted to ship this year (3.97 million units globally, according to IHS iSuppli). Which means smartwatches could be about as popular as a niche gadget for learning about computing/making a DIY robot, but less popular than the PC that’s cannonballing towards extinction the quickest.
Which sounds about as plausible as any guesstimate produced prior to any mainstream tech companies actually launching product. If you’re in the business of reading tea leaves it helps if you wait for someone to make a brew before doing divinations.
ABI says its “market intelligence” of the “strong potential emergence of smart watches” — note the careful hedge, and don’t bet the farm on this one just yet — is based on the emergence over the past nine months of “a number of new smart watches”, which is likely referring to Kickstarter-funded Pebble and its myriad of wrist-coveting, crowdfunded competitors.
The analyst also says its forecast is based on ”contributing factors” that it reckons are encouraging the smartwatch market to (maybe) emerge from its Kickstarter-powered chrysalis and (possibly) blossom into a standalone butterfly — namely:
…the high penetration of smartphones in many world markets, the wide availability and low cost of MEMS sensors, energy efficient connectivity technologies such as Bluetooth 4.0, and a flourishing app ecosystem.
Even though the smartwatch market remains a partially formed, largely limp-wristed creature, listlessly stuck within its chrysalis of potential, ABI has already spotted four categories hoping to fly in the months and years ahead — aka: notification types (such as MetaWatch and Cookoo); voice operational smartwatches (such as Martian); hybrid smartwatches; and completely independent smartwatches — i.e. smartwatches that have their own OS and aren’t just playing second fiddle to a smartphone.
In the latter category, ABI cites I’m Watch as an example but also suggests that other “possible archetypes” could be “Apple’s hotly anticipated iWatch, Samsung’s Galaxy Altius and Microsoft['s 'Windows Watch', or whatever catchy name Redmond ends up bestowing on it, if indeed it ends up making such a thing at all]. If Mark Zuckerberg or Jeff Bezos or Justin Bieber decide to launch their own Android-powered smartwatches ABI would presumably add those in here too.
“Smartwatches that replicate the functionality of a mobile handset or smartphone are not yet commercially feasible, though the technologies are certainly being prepared,” adds senior analyst Joshua Flood in a quasi-illuminating statement of the potential factors that could influence this nascent market’s potential as the hands on our (non-smart)watches push inexorably on.
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Acer Iconia W510 preview: as Acer moves into the Windows 8 period, it returns to its netbook roots
Author: Jon Mitchell
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Right here it is, individuals: our first Windows 8 gadget. No, not the very first we’ve laid hands on, but the very first built-for-Win-8 COMPUTER that we have actually had the ability to take residence and spend some quality time with. If you do not bear in mind today’s specimen, you ‘d be forgiven: the Acer Iconia W510 is just one of many, lots of tablet / laptop hybrids that have debuted over the past few months. Plus, this isn’t really also the highest-end Windows 8 PC Acer has to offer: unlike the W700, which has a 1080p screen and Ultrabook digestive tracts, the W510 runs off a Clover Trail-based Atom processor, and has a smaller sized 10.1-inch (1,366 x 768) display.
Accordingly, the rate is also reduced: the W510 will certainly start at $ 500 for the tablet only, though you’ll additionally be able to acquire it with the detachable keyboard dock for $ 750. (And if the dock truly does double the battery life to 18 hours, you might want to.) Though the W510 won’t be readily available for a few weeks yet– it goes on sale November 9th– we have actually gotten a hold of a very early device. A vital note: the model we tested was pre-production, so we’ll resist on benchmarking in the meantime and update our story with performance scores and an evaluation card once we have the chance to test a last unit. In the meantime, if you’re searching for a deeper dive on the hardware, you’ve concerned the right location.
Acer moves into the Windows 8 era, it returns to its netbook roots originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Oct 2012 08:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink|| Email this|Opinions
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