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People expect a certain level of performance from a notebook. The 5200B and 5121E I don't think meet that need.
One can have good use from a computer with these processors. It's as easy as convincing customers to use another operating system (eeek!).
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you could probably get 20h out of a 5121E in a notebook of the same size as MSI's with the same battery.
I think that this battery duration war has no sense when figures exceed one normal working day. Who wants to use a computer for twenty hours in a row? There can't be many people that actually want that, and the people that need that would be a fraction of them. Alright, battery duration figures are like the megahertz figures for desktops, pure marketing hook. People just want a single figure to judge overall quality. It's not fair (nor clever).
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What you'd get is something very much akin to the canceled
Palm Foleo
I first choked at the Foleo concept: Something like a laptop, only that with much less funcionality? Who would carry that along with their smartphone?
Then, upon seeing all the crazy things that smartphones do today (the same, if not more, that regular desktops ten years ago), I came to realize that what people need is a
terminal for their smartphone: The smartphone does a lot of things, but it's really limited by its small screen and keyboard. All that's needed is a bigger keyboard and screen for some uses. Internet browsing and e-mail have been on the smartphone for years, but who can actually use them seriously without proper input and output devices?
I have something better: If a manufacturer came with a way of attaching a regular keyboard/mouse and screen to a smartphone, it would take the world by storm. For business use, it would rock, because one can find keyboards and monitors everywhere. You go to that office just with your phone, plug the keyboard/mouse, screen (and charger, of course), and off you go, you can work with no computer (that's what illiterate people would say). When it's time to go, you just pick your phone, and that's all.
If smartphones are good as computers, why doesn't any manufacturer allow them to have decent input and output devices?