Asus is on a roll on the Netbooks market as their latest product called Asus EeePC T91 is a netbook with a convertible screen turning it into a tablet PC, portable TV player, global positioning system or digital picture frame.

This new powerhouse small computer has an 8.9-inch touch screen display and uses Intel Atom Z520 processor. It also has a TV tuner and GPS chip.

I am reading a post months back by Mark Wilson from Gizmodo about his dislike for Netbooks. In an excerpt: The other day I walked into a coffee shop where I witnessed a man—a grown man—hunched over a tiny laptop. He wiggled with cautious, uncertain movements like a fat guy squeezing his way into an old pair of pants. His hands, too wide for the keyboard, made him look klutzy and a bit stupid. His face, in almost erotic proximity to the tiny screen, squinted to either see more clearly or repress the eyestrain. And to top off this scene of sleek convenience, a long, mismatching wire complete with power brick connected the computer to a nearby outlet. After all, such a small machine could never be expected to run off battery power alone!

I totally understand the problem with using Netbooks as I have experienced it with my Lenovo S10. Honestly, I initially thought I made a mistake as I found it difficult to read and type on my Lenovo S10. But after a few weeks, I just woke up and simply didn’t notice they were small. My fingers and eyes got used to it, similar to playing an electric guitar up to the 20th fret or trying out a yukelele for the first time.

Now, I love my netbook to the core especially with its triple boot – Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. The size allows me to carry a small bag and the weight doesn’t feel ripping my shoulders off. Not only that, when I work on my 15.4 inch laptop or desktop, I feel they are gigantic piece of equipments and I feel like going back to my netbook where I feel I can focus more on the task at hand.

If you feel you are having problems with your netbook, just give it some time.

More post on Netbooks hater:

Why I Hate Netbooks

Why I Love Netbooks

Three Reasons Why Netbooks Just Aren’t Good Enough

If you still remember Palm, they are still alive especially after a $100 million dollar infusion last December. I admit I use Tungsten T3 and have been frustrated when they stopped producing these devices. I live and breathe Microsoft at the very core; and T3 is one of the very few non-Microsoft products I patronize.

I had my first two smartphones with Microsoft Windows Mobile but I felt I had another gadget/device that needs more care and love than I can provide. You know, the frequent tune-ups, restarts, performance maintenance and stuff. All I want is a simple but effective tool that can synch my schedule, act as notepad, maintain tasks, contacts, and lists. I want it to be snappy, hard-resets in a blink of an eye, doesn’t munch much on battery power. I am surrounded with a lot of complex technologies that the last thing I need is a pamper intensive personal device and as such my fondness for Palm.

Given that the company has slowly created devices with Windows mobile loaded on it, their previous flagship Palm OS slowly lost it’s brand.

Recently, Palm has hinted that they are unveiling their new operating system named Palm Nova OS whose official public revelation would be during Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on Thursday together with a new device that goes with it. The new OS is going to be based in Linux, oh no. Nonetheless, I still like the Palm concept and am interested to their official announcement.

I think they are now moving into a different arena and abandoning their old gadgets and platform. Just yesterday I was surprised to find their mind-blowing sale at Palm store where they sold keyboards from 70USD down to 29 USD. I did order, however, I received a mail that my order cannot be completed. Was it just meant to generate traffic to their site as they unveil their new operating system? Let’s see.

Rob Enderle has noted that netbooks and smartphones would be the PC platform for 2009. The rise of netbooks in 2008, the continuous growth, the continuous economic slump would further boost the sales of cheap laptop alternatives. At 400 USD, users would be able to do more than 50% of their productive work. Likewise, Smartphones are also said to power 2009. This small gadgets continue to become more powerful and cheaper and users would be more than happy to do more productive work in these devices.

As Rob points out: 2009, driven largely by the need to both be mobile and frugal will see an expansion of these thinner and less expensive communications and productivity platform products as more and more vendors being out ever more compelling products based on the Microsoft, Google, Apple, and even new Nova Palm platforms”, adds Enderle.

In 2009, we would see more powerful netbooks as Microsoft has already demoed that Windows 7 is going to run on Netbooks. Asus on the other hand, already announced that their succeeding Asus Eee PC would be powerful enough to run the next version of Windows with ease.

More articles on netbooks:

Top Reasons Why 41 Million Netbooks in 2012 is Possible

I have Finally Given in to a Netbook, Lenovo IdeaPad S10

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