Subnotebook

Today at Boing Boing Gadgets, we helped Carnegie Mellon University make AI smarter by playing casual games; saw Intel announce and unannounce an Atom-based iphone; confused Shoryuken for Schubert; and found that MSI's Wind subnotebook is as good as the Eee PC. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It's Apple's entry into the lightweight portable computer market known as the subnotebook, often used by business travelers and popularized by companies such as Toshiba and Sony. ❋ Peter Cohen, Dan Frakes, Jonathan Seff, Dan Miller (2009)

That applies even in the price-sensitive entry-level subnotebook market, as IDC analyst Felipe Rego explained to the paper: ❋ Unknown (2008)

And there was much exasperation from Beschizza as he fired off a polite British philippic at a gadget industry that can't seem to tell the difference between a UMPC and a subnotebook. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Kindle is a more natural form factor for these tasks (reading books, websites, and email) than a subnotebook, and I believe Kindle-like products will dominate this category in a few years. — ❋ Unknown (2008)

HP's competitor to the MacBook Air isn't lighter, thinner or more attractive than Apple's subnotebook. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The thing that I took away from that article, other than increased hope for the long overdue subnotebook from Apple is this: ❋ Unknown (2007)

Despite their protestations of revolutionary design, the Foleo looks just like another subnotebook. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The interview pretty much reinforces all the problems I outline in this post – Hawkins completely fails to differentiate the Foleo from any other subnotebook in his talk. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The other thing is that if it works like a laptop and not a crippled laptop, then $500 for a subnotebook is pretty cheap. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Dubbed the Pavilion DV2, HP's 12. 1-inch subnotebook weighs 3.8 pounds and measures 1.3 inches thick. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And by beautiful he means it looks like every other grey subnotebook you can find in all of history. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Granted, Apple's subnotebook has the DV2 beat in every way. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Apple faced a similar question when designing the MacBook Air, the subnotebook computer that goes on sale next week. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The screen is big for a subnotebook, and quite bright. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Kohjinsha has released another subnotebook model, the W130. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Reasons given are the 10.2 1024 x 600 LCS, the 92% full size laptop keyboard, 1.6GHz Atom 2GB max RAM, all of which make it theoretically the most powerful subnotebook. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Put simply, the JL7100 is basically a Windows-based PDA pretending to be a subnotebook. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The MacBook Air received a mixed response after some fans — who were hoping for a touchscreen-enabled tablet PC — deemed the slim-but-pricey subnotebook insufficiently revolutionary. ❋ By Leander Kahney (2008)