We all knew the N470 processor was going to come out in March, we’ve been writing about it as early as October of 2009! True to its word, Intel has (accidentally?) published a press release dated March 1 announcing the N470 processor. It runs at a faster 1.83HGz – let’s hope this is enough to [...]
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A study of online consumers reveals some insights into who they are and what they expect from netbooks. The study, conducted by PriceGrabber.com surveys a sample of 1,680 US online consumers between January 7-25. About 15% of this sample – 244 people – own netbooks. The sample sizes for the individual questions listed below varies [...]
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For our North American readers (USA and Canada), here are some interesting statistics on where your netbooks originate from, as of Feb 13, 2010.
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In all of 2009, the US imported laptops (notebooks and netbooks) worth $26.9 billion from 80 different countries.
In all of 2009, Canadians imported $2.5 billion worth from 78 countries.
That’s a 2.5% [...]
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Little bit about the iPad – it’s a 7.5″ by 9.6″ tablet from Apple coming out in April 2010. At only 0.5″ thick, it weighs a bare 1.5lbs. An e-Reader meets tablet, the iPad can be considered a larger version of the iPhone, and just like it’s younger counterpart, there are some significant things it [...]
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GigaOm has some great stats on how many people in the US have internet subscriptions and how much time Americans spend online. He tracks the growth of both these in the last decade. Let’s start with…
Increase in people online & with broadband subscriptions
2.7 million Americans with broadband subscription in 1999 vs. 80 million in 2009 [...]
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