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Tasawar Mughal
Once upon a time, the PC was king, then its crown (and reign) was stolen by the laptop; in its turn, the laptop was defeated by the notebook, then the new kid on the block was the netbook, but now, there’s a new guy in town: the tablet netbook.
Ladies and gents, welcome the technology world’s latest offspring: every gadgeteer’s dream come true, the perfect combination of mobility, power, storing capacity, sleekness and flexibility.
In order to have a clear view on the subject at hand, we should first do a recap of this marvel’s forerunners. In the 1970′s, Alan Kay envisioned a “personal, portable information manipulator” that he called the “Dynabook”. Laptops’ screens are at least 11 inches wide, thus permitting for full-size keyboards to be added.
As these products were pretty heavy to carry around, the netbook was born a few years later: a slimmer and lighter laptop, also less expensive, the only drawbacks being on the CPU side. As such, the netbook soon took center stage, a combination of both its predecessors but with added portability (being smaller and lighter) and power (due to the advancements in the field: smaller and more potent chips).
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