September 1st, 2009

Mini laptops may be will so in two different choices at laptop computers market, during these time mini laptops based on Arm chips has patching way, so the mini laptop gets place in the user heart, which could heat up the battle in a space dominated by netbooks with Intel’s Atom chips.

Laptop computers maker trying to introduce new mini laptop to the market, besides aim to creating a product that can be used as handily as a mobile phone and has functions of a small laptop called netbook, it also aim to users have to know more that both device have any difference netbook and mini laptop.

Sharp announced an ultra-compact PC-Z1 mini laptop in last week, it called the “NetWalker” uses “Ubuntu” Linux-derived OS, one of the first mini-laptops based on an Arm chip, has a 5-inch touch screen and a 68-key keyboard and offers 10 hours of battery life. The NetWalker designed for those who rely on the Web for computing. Company plans to start shipping in Japan.

So far the netbook go to market and arrived to user hand not covering by erudition truthfully that the netbook are the low-cost laptop computers only work for internet browsing, getting and send email, develop any document, plays music and video but not same to normal laptop computers can working on high graphic with high speed. Above all for users in the developing countries, which they don’t know any information either from netbook seller, they know that are small and cheapest.

Any laptop computers maker and some companies sure has seen the opportunity develop similar devices with larger screens, says will be based on Arm chips designed like Freescale Semiconductor, Nvidia and Qualcomm, but Dell is investigating the concept, Arm-based mini-laptops by some chip makers has official called “smartbooks”, the design to have similar characteristics to netbooks, including compact keyboards and screens, but not based on Intel’s Atom chips and use Microsoft’s Windows OS. The smartbooks will come with Linux, as Arm-based chips, it do not support Windows XP OS.

In situation and economy condition not yet rise, some companies hesitant, like ASUS pioneer on its world’s first netbook has demonstrated a mini-laptop with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon platform, running Google’s Android open-source OS says, no “clear market” for smartbooks and that the company had no plans to ship them. Maybe ASUS know that and experienced when bring up the netbook then wage war at low-cost laptop computers market opposes the rivals.

Qualcomm differ look at, disagreed with ASUS, there’s a market for smartbooks, which are better for people who rely more on the Web for computing “We’re not trying to emulate the PC experience,” Qualcomm said. The smartbooks provide a longer battery life, as Arm chips draw less power than Intel’s Atom chips, highlighted other benefits, including instant access to the Web and quick startup compared with Atom-based netbooks, smartbook have more Arm chips need better application support to compete with Intel chips and low price.

Apple has laid two new update pages for Mac mini firmware and SuperDrive-contain systems at Support Apple site.  Apple users can using Mac mini EFI Firmware Update 1.2, company promise it  improves to compatibility with the latest Apple memory kits on Mac mini computers, it work to 20-inch, 24-inch iMac and Mac mini.

Apple says super drive firmware update 3.0 is designed to eliminate the noise made by your Mac’s optical drive during system startup and wake from sleep. Both updates have need of OS X 10.5.7 or later on.

Apple explains how to settle on whether to your Mac requirements the update in a hold up any document. It requires a Mac mini by means of today’s firmware update, or an iMac by means of iMac EFI Firmware Update 1.4 installed.