A smartphone is a mobile phone with some computer capabilities, such as web browsing and email. A Netbook is a small notebook computer. So a Smartbook is what? Something between a Smartphone and a Netbook.?
You might think so.
Take device A. This has 64 meg memory, a mobile phone operating system (windows CE or Android) a couple of gig of flash memory. In other words the same spec as a smartphone but without the phone bit and with a screen and keyboard.
Device B. A gig of main memory, maybe even a dual core processor, 160 gig disk, a full-blown multi-user operating system with a full set of office applications.
Obviously device A is a smartbook and device B a netbook.
Wrong. If device A has an intel processor and a Microsoft operating system and device B has an ARM processor and Unix.
It is madness, but the definition of a smartbook now is apparenrlty that it has an ARM processor because ARM processors are the ones you have in your mobile phone.
This is a triumph of marketing for Microsoft/Intel.
It has to stop.
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