Tablet Netbooks of the Future
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Some interesting things will be happening for netbooks in the near future, and the latest idea is a bigger variety of tablet-style netboks.
Small keyboards and screens can lead to a lot of frustration. This has led to a lot of speculation on newer touchscreen netbooks, such as the touchscreen Eee netbook next year.
Perhaps the iPhone will be the inspiration for 2009’s netbooks. The technology exists for better touchscreen netbooks, from both a display and processor viewpoint. Touchscreens are simpler and more elegant, and with no need for a physical keyboard tablets may have more room for batteries. The upcoming 7-9 inch Apple iPhone should make use of these, and offer something for the industry to mess around with when thinking of its own new netbook designs.
[...] Rob928 over at mydellmini has modded the hell out of his Dell Mini 9, converting it to a tablet PC. He worked his magic with a solderless touchscreen kit, and the results are quite frankly [...]