The choices
of mobile computing for SOHO users (part 2)
Subnotebook and Ultraportable
Subnotebook, or
ultraportable, can provide a medium power (especially when it compares with
laptops in recent years), but they maily focus in the portable ability and easy
to be used. The main concerns in here are the battery duration, small and
convenient size, and as lightest weight as possible. When a businessman on his
work trip, he chooses one of these gadgets because of ts convenience – because
after all, no one want to carried with themselves more weight, and these
machines are still strong enough to handle those mission in their businesses.
These gadgets can
provide smaller screens, but it’s not always like that: 13 inch LCD screen
normally is the typical one, but it gets changing since the producers are
finding ways for packaging larger, lighter screen into a smaller computer.
Normally, subnotebook just can provide less connector: instead of 3 or 4 USB
slots, subnotebook only provides 2; instead of 500GB storage on bigger laptops,
subnotebook can have the super fast and thin SSD with less capacity. Some of
the notebooks even eliminate the capital drive, and your suggestion is always
using an outside DVD player or the drive is one of the docking station, which
are usually forgotten through out the trip.
Note that subnotebook
can’t be as cheap as the systems in the CPU which are more powerful and bigger.
The more powerful components are being packaged into a small gadget require the
more expensive of those components compare to those using in the bigger CPU,
yet still the producers have to use that.
A good example for
this category is Sony VAIO S Series (starting at $899,99). Laptop S Series
weights 3,8 pound with standard battery, including 500GB storage and 13.3 inch
sreen, with the battery duration up to 7,5 hour. It’s beautiful, powerful and
easy to be carried in the luggage, or even in a big bag.
Apple MacBook Air is
another good example for subnotebook. Thin and light, Air has model 11 inch and
13 inch, Intel Core 2 Duo microprocessor, 64GB storage or 128GB, 4GB RAM, long
battery duration and high-definition screen. Air starts about $1000, and the
price increases rapidlywhen the capacity and the power have been fixed and more
additions. Therefore, with such a high price like that, Mac fans will be
considered when buying this realistic and beautiful gadgets.
