Stay connected with a Mini Laptop
Posted in General | 1 Comment »Mini laptops are small, light weight and inexpensive laptop computers increasingly being used to stay connected to the digital world. These devices are typically below $500 and designed for web browsing, chatting & email and for less demanding media applications.
The most important features that differentiate mini laptop computers from traditional laptops are price, weight and battery power. However, mini laptops also differ significantly from traditional laptops with respect to features like processing power, memory size, display screen dimensions etc. Moreover, these power optimized devices do not perform well specifically with video streaming and graphic-intense video games.
As these devices are the fastest growing computer segment, users are using them in variety of ways. The idea behind the development of these devices is to allow the user to stay connected to the world while on the move. These small and incredibly light laptops help the user to keep-up with blogs, instant messenger and email so that he never loses the touch with family and friends.
Some of the most used applications on such devices are web-browsing, multimedia usage, and working on official tasks. The following points give an overview of various application Softwares available for web-browsing and multimedia usage on these small computers. In later posts, I shall give an overview of some Softwares available for working on official tasks with a mini laptop. Some of the examples of these devices are HP mini laptop, toshiba mini laptop etc.
Web-browsing: The web browser is the most important and most used application on a mini laptop PC, specially for people who are using cloud computing or browser based applications. The top three browsers that let the users browse the Internet on these devices are FireFox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. Furthermore, since these devices have a small screen as compared to traditional laptops, full screen browser becomes an important requirement for good browsing experience. All the above mentioned browsers do have full screen browsing facilities.
FireFox and Internet Explorer do provide decent web-browsing performance, but recently released Google Chrome is developed specifically for hassle–free connection to the cloud in such computers. Moreover, Google Chrome also offers a facility to close or kill single tabs during multiple tab browsing. This feature is still not offered on any other browser. In case you use GMAIL for email and chatting, Chrome opens the webpage quite fast when compared to Internet Explorer and FireFox.
Multimedia: This is where the limited power of processors used in these devices starts to hurt. But still some available devices do allow users to watch a movie or some movie clips. If it is a windows machine, you can use Windows media player for watching movies or playing clips. Another good option is to use VLC player, which is a reliable light weight alternative since it is available for both Windows as well as Linux.
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December 18th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
This mini laptop is so cute one would not dream it has the speed and power of a large computer. I am totally amazed at its performance. It speeds right along for me, no hesitations at all. I bought the blue one and love the steel blue color. In addition I purchased a wireless mouse with an Internet device, since I never have liked the mouse on laptops. I am thoroughly delighted with my purchase, no criticisms whatsoever. For the money you absolutely cannot go wrong. The tiny little size belies its power and capability.