The future is compact
It’s generally known that laptops are outselling desktop PCs. People tend to buy a laptop over a desktop PC because it’s portable. But they don’t want to step down in screen size, people want at least a 17″ screen or if possible, even larger. When I walk through the computer department of a store like Media Markt I’m amazed by the ugly-ness and —most of all— the size of laptops!
But since a year or two there is something happening. It seems that people realize that big, heavy laptops aren’t that nice as they thought. Small, mini-laptops (Netbooks) like the ASUS Eee PC are in the lift. You don’t really need the cd-player and with WIFI or 3G connections you can be online, everywhere. I have the feeling we are going to a situation where people use a full-blown desktop PC for all the video and photo editing, etc. at home and a netbook for browsing the web (from anywhere, probably even on vacation).
The evidences of a small Apple netbook are growing so it feels that I’m correct about this. It’s clear that Apple scored with the iPhone, I wonder if they do with a netbook too. Speaking of the iPhone… that 3GS video quality is awesome! The quality on those small pocket video cameras like the Flip and this brand new Kodak Zi8 is probably better, but still… the iPhone video quality is really good too!
Don’t forget: resolution is not the same as quality! It’s not because you have a 8MP camera that the picture quality is better than a 2MP camera. That’s something loads of people don’t really know. The quality is depending on the lens and the quality of the sensor. The number of megapixels of your sensor define the size of the picture.
Check out my first iPhone video test of my cool nephew, Seth. Or this video of the petable (numb) fly that was sitting on my desk this afternoon.
