Chippy of UMPC Portal posted a very compelling piece about how the Internet basically split into two, the ‘full’ Internet and the mobile Internet. It’s an informative read for any mobile warrior and the article touches on how access to the Web has changed over the years.

Basically, the mobile ‘Net was just a subset of the full desktop Internet experience. Now, always-on handheld devices are displaying features not available with regular desktops. While laptops and desktops offer larger screen real estate, better performance and customization as well as access to more tools like Flash, FTP and 3D engines. Mobile devices on the other hand are location-aware (GPS), a touch-friendly and often have speedy interfaces.

Try as manufacturers may to enhance and integrate the features of one set of these devices with the other, they haven’t succeeded in doing so. Device makers are still trying their best to merge the mobile and full Internet experiences with the whirlwind of new gadgets being introduced recently like smartbooks, tablets and others. Maybe this year they’ll finally crack it but in the mean time, you will need to have both sets of device to enjoy the ‘full’ Internet.

source UMPC Portal

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The ‘full Internet experience’ analyzed and dissected

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Atom-powered desktop launched by e-Machine Japan

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All-in-one PCs expected to affect sales of 19-24-inch LCD monitors this year

From the survey, a huge 79% said that they viewed netbooks as an accompaniment to laptops or desktops. While only 11% said they would use a netbook as their primary device.

Shane from Ars Technica seems to agree with the results from the survey as he himself uses a desktop primarily. While his MSI Wind is used as his secondary device, it is noted that it has however, replaced his laptop. Personally, I would be amongst those 11% of consumers that use their netbook as their primary device – an MSI Wind clone replaced my laptop and is used more than my desktop computer, which is used for the only thing traditional netbooks can’t do – read or burn disks.

Would the survey results have been different if you’d answered the questions? Tell us if you use your netbook as your primary device and why or why not.

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Survey: 11% Would use a netbook as their primary device

• Runs on Windows XP Home
• 1.6GHz Atom processor
• 1GB RAM
• 80GB hard drive
• 2x USB ports
• 802.11n Wifi
• 1x PC card slot

It is also a size of a book (222 x 178 x 26.9 mm) and weighs only 1kg. But the most impressive thing about the Eee Box is the fast boot system known as the Express Gate which allows the Eee Box to be in internet ready mode only 8 seconds after you hit the power button!

The price? Only £199 which isn’t bad with for a computer like this.

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Eee PC for the desktop market

By using an inventive method of installation since installing the Syllable Dekstop from a USB won’t work, Michael Saunders did an imaging of his Eee drive with a dd utility (from Linux) and installed Syllable using QEmu and then dd’ing the image back to the real drive. I know this may sound techy, but developers would definitely understand how the process work.

Saunders also reports that video, audio, touchpad, USB and battery of the Asus Eee PC after installing the Syllable Desktop, are working pretty fine. But widescreen video and network are not working yet.

So, if you’re looking for an alternative OS to play around with your Asus Eee PC, you may want to give Syllable Desktop a spin. More details here.

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Asus Eee PC can run Syllable Desktop OS too