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Although netbooks have been around for a couple of years, they are quite knew and unknown for most people. That’s why many confuse them with laptops or try to find the differences between netbooks and laptops.

That’s why in the rows below I’m going to explain to you what is the difference between a netbook and a laptop in a couple of short and easy to understand lines.

First of all, netbooks are like the tiny brothers of regular laptops. that’s because they are lighter and smaller. While the average laptop has a 15.4″ screen and weights around 4.5-5 pounds, the average netbook these days has a 10″ screen and weight around 2.8 pounds. And since it has a smaller screen, it also has a smaller body and it’s more compact and easier to carry around.

Then, netbooks come with smaller screens and usually smaller resolution. You might have already got that from the previous paragraph, but since netbooks are smaller, so are their screens. You can get them with displays between 7 to 12 inches, while laptops have displays between 12 to 19 inches , and there are only a handful of 12″ versions.

Also, netbooks are more portable than laptops. Besides that size issue, they also come with better battery life. if you could expect and average 3 hours life from a 15.4″ notebook, a standard 10″ netbooks can easily give you these days 6 to 8 hours, with some even passing the 10 hours mark. and that’s something a standard laptop can’t offer you.

the bigger autonomy of netbooks is mostly due to the lower hardware they house. Yes, netbooks are meant to use low-consumption hardware that can only offer a limited amount of performances. they’re good for basic every-day stuff, but when it comes to resources hungry applications or games, they can’t take the challenge. Laptops on the other hand can even house ultra-per formant hardware, as there are bigger desktop-replacement devices with up to 3 hard-drives, Sli graphic cards and high end CPUs.

Last but not at all least, there’s the price mater. A standard netbook goes for around $350 and offers a good 10″ screen, decent hardware, good built low profile body and an autonomy of around 8 hours. You can get laptops for these money actually, but you’ll end up with a big and bulky device with hardware not much better than what you can find in netbooks and very poor autonomy. A good laptop though runs for 600-800 bucks and high end versions could easily jump $2000 . So, although there are differences in performances between laptops and netbooks, these differences are seen in their price tags.

So, as a conclusion, a netbook is like a sub-laptop. It has a screen, keyboard, touch-pad and most used ports and can offer enough power to run standard apps. It’s also compact light and comes with a very good battery life for a very good price. laptops on the other hand are bigger and with a lower autonomy, but they can provide all the extra performance netbooks lack.

There are other tiny details too, and you can find out more in this article about the difference between netbooks and laptops.

Can the magic of the remote control actually also apply to your new PC home computer? Why have PC’s been so neglected? I mean seriously! All other forms of technology these days feature a remote control of some sort. So it is quite ironic that, PC’s themselves, have yet to fully incorporate this device. True story actually: I really owned a new laptop in 2005 that came with a remote control. Imagine my joy when I discovered it.

But, soon afterwards, I found out that the control itself was, well, not functional in the slightest. Looking on the internet and browsing forum after forum, led me to the conclusion that many computer enthusiasts out there actually had the same problem. Why had I been left astray in such a remote control-less world.

Well you may be happy to know, that PC’s are finally coming online. Online in the realm of remote controlled computing that is. There are a handful of companies these days that sell remote enabled Personal Computers. This has been primarily led by the drive to get the so called multimedia PC out there and into the public’s hands. Don’t worry about their apparent complexity.

PC Remotes do simple tasks, like turn up the volume after you just put in a new DVD and you can’t hear it. They also do other things like control the mouse, though with these versions, there is a bit more complexity added. In either case, worth the investment? Well if you really plan on using your computer as a media device, we think the answer is yes.

The world of mobile internet users is abuzz with the big news of the year: next generation wireless internet networks are coming to cities and communities across the nation and the planet! It has been a seemingly long wait (in reality the lapse between third and fourth generation mobile standards has half as long as that between second and third generation standards, but don’t expect that to quell the thirst for next generation standards one bit), and thank heavens it is a wait that is already over for many millions of Americans and which will soon be over for many millions upon millions more. Having taken root for the first time in the US in the city of Baltimore in 2009, 4G networks have incrementally and steadily spread to dozens and dozens of other cities across the nation; from a measly handful at the very end of 2009, the list has already grown to many dozen by mid-2010 and is likely to reach well over 100 cities and towns by this time in 2011…all of which is really, really exciting if you love your mobile internet connection!

The spread of 4G is mostly concentrated in urban areas where much of the infrastructure needed to deploy such networks is already in place, and all that needs to be done is to have a handful of new, fourth generation radio transmitters placed in piggy-back fashion on preexisting towers/structures. This sort of thrifty form of deploying fourth generation networks further consolidates what is already considered to be the most economical of all mobile internet communications standards, thanks to the brilliant and powerful technology that has gone into WiMax (the currently dominant transmission system used in fourth generation networks). Nonetheless, next generation wireless won’t only be making its appearance in major urban areas over the coming months and years but will also be popping up in many parts of the more rural and remote parts of the continent. This is because, to the great surprise of many of the biggest telecoms in the country, rural Americans have demonstrated a tremendous appetite for high speed mobile internet services. The result of that phenomenon, as unexpected as it happens to be, is that these companies find that the return-on-investment in these kinds of remote places is not that much inferior to the return-on-investment when dealing with the big cities. In short, next generation wireless is coming to a city and a farm near you-assuming it hasn’t already shown up!

The difference that fourth generation mobile makes is, undoubtedly, quite huge: we’re talking more than twice as fast as 3G connections in almost all cases. In fact, at certain non-peak hours it might even be possible for a fourth generation wireless user to download files (big, multimedia files that never before would have been accessible from a mobile device) at speeds of up to 12 Mbps or even more…and that is only a teaser of what is to come. Within the next year or two, data transfer speeds are likely going to careen past the 20 and then the 30 and the 40 Mbps mark!