A lot of interesting news is expected in the next two days. E3 conference dedicated to the computer and video games and everything concerned with it has opened. Particularly, there will be officially presented a new version of the portable game consoles PSP Go. Tomorrow starts the same exhibition Computex, dedicated to electronics and IT. And we already have the first news from there.
During the exhibition was noticed a smartbook ASUS Eee PC prototype, running on Snapdragon-based chipsets with a frequency of 1 GHz and managed by OS Android. But what is most interesting – the system works without a cooler.
Low power, secured by a new chipset Snapdragon, not only helps to extend the work of the gadget, but to abandon the active cooling. This smartbook is able to not only to provide easy surfing on the network, but also play HD video with a resolution of 720p.
Also soon will be released a model with better graphics and chipsets Snapdragon on 1.3 GHz and 1.5 GHz with dual processors. Let’s hope that in the coming days we’ll have more details describing the smartbook.
Even a couple of years ago, few people knew the term «notebook», but now it is so widely distributed that the term «inventors» decided not to defend all the rights to its use. Now the continued miniaturization and convergence of technologies make us use new terms for all types of emerging gadgets. And one of them is smartbook.
For the first time it was used for Computex in Taiwan, which described the prototype gadgets, resulting from the joint work of Freescale and Qualcomm. But soon it is possible to expect the spread of the term referring to all the gadgets that can be placed in a niche between notebooks and smartphones.
By technical characteristics smartbooks will a little concede notebooks, but they will be able to work in the networks of cellular communication and in wireless computer networks. The use of special platforms with low power consumption should increase working time and will allow refusing from coolers (which, in turn, lead to more subtle designs). The main operating system of smartbooks should be a special assembly based on Linux (the primary candidate, in my opinion, is the Android).
Several conceptual smartbook designs were developed at College of Art and Design Savannah. Who knows, maybe in the near future they will become the most common form factors of new gadgets.
