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Differences Between Notebooks, Netbooks and Ultra-Mobile PCs
Gone are the years when mobile computer was
widely 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. It is a fact that 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 questions depends upon whom
you ask. One person may call a particular PC a netbook while another insists
it's a notebook. It's like asking someone to describe an elevated geographic
feature -- some may call it a hill and others insist it's a mountain. There's
no universal definition upon which you can rely.
