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During a presentation at the Mobile World Congress, Intel and Nokia announced that they are bringing together their respective Linux-based operating systems under a single banner.
The combined platform, called MeeGo, supports multiple architectures and will be suitable for use across a wide range of mobile and embedded form factors, including netbooks and smartphones.
Nokia's Maemo platform evolved from the company's experiments with handheld tablet computing. It has shipped on all of the company's Internet tablets (Nxxx Series) as well as the N900, a high-end smartphone that Nokia launched last year. Intel's Moblin platform, which is principally designed for netbooks, is backed by a number of prominent Linux distributors and hardware vendors. Although there are a number of significant technical differences between the two platforms, they have a lot in common.
Full Article [Ars Technica]
Multi-Touch devices are getting more and more common these days but they come with a catch, it must be capacitive meaning no stylus support.
Stantum's technology has made it possible to have Multi-touch on resistive devices, meaning added stylus support for accuracy.
Stantum's technology is a software-based refinement to resistive touchscreens that allows for accuracy beyond the pixel density of the display, a complete lack of touchscreen "jitters" and some fairly incredible input methods. Termed "TouchPark," the multitouch framework provides gesture recognition, cursor management and physics processing for phone builders to stick on top of the phone OS (Symbian, Windows Mobile and Android are currently supported), and works with hardware such as Texas Instruments Zoom, Freescale i.MX and ST Nomadic.
This is a hardware implementation and it will not be possible to run it on existing resitive devices but there is an software implementation but it is still in it early stages and doesn't look promising.
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Well, there was mention of bugs and debugs in Microsoft Inno Center. Well, why debug? why not deworm or deanimal. Why bugs?
Consider what you are using it for. Is it for games or for normal school activities? Or would you also see the weight as an important issue too? If you just want a laptop for normal uses, that means you don't need high graphic games, why not consider a light weight laptop? It's just as powerful as a full-sized laptop except that the graphics card may not be able to support high intensity graphic games.
The current laptops sold in SP have a minimum of an integrated 4500MHD graphics, which you will be able to enjoy the HD movies that you have. If you are looking for a gaming PC replacement laptop, why not look for a graphics card like ATI HD3670 and above? Those will have a graphics card with GDDR3 graphics card, which will be able to take on high intensity graphic games. The current laptops will also have an Intel Centrino 2 mobile technology, a 4GB DDR3 ram (2 x 2gb DDR3) [note, only a 64-bit OS may be able to fully use all 4GB, 32-bit OSes can use around 3-3.3GB only) , a DVD drive, at least a 250gb HDD. That is the minimum for a laptop bought in SP though.
I wouldn't say a netbook is no good, but the display size is too small, making your eyes cry. But there are netbooks which the specifications are comparable to the normal laptops. Such as the ASUS N10, which has a Nvidia Geforce 9300 M , which the Fujitsu L1010 sold in school also has it.. So N10 will also be able to take on high graphic games. ASUS N10 also has a facial recognition technology , similar to the Lenovo ideapad. So ASUS N10 is a good choice for a netbook. Sorry I did not manage to get the video up for ASUS N10 preview. Anyway this is the link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNKTZvtDtlA&feature=channel
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