Tegra Note 7

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Nvidia has put a much more concentrated into moving into the mobile market. With that said, they have recently launched the Tegra Note 7. As happens with everything Nvidia makes, they have turned to their partners such as EVGA and Asus to manufacture and distribute the product.

At $200, the Tegra Note 7 proves to be a viable option for anyone who wants to do decent mobile gaming, 3D work, or really anything. Of course there were some items that had to be a trade off. The screen has a resolution of 1280×800, and 1GB of ram, these stats are lower then that of the Nexus 7.

There is a 4 hour battery life, which is right in line with the 2013 model of the Nexus 7. That is of course with power saving off and in high performance. If you are not doing intensive tasks, you can turn power saving on and be in lower performance modes and get almost 6 hours of battery life, which isn’t too shabby!

The Tegra Note 7 does pretty well in all benchmarks, and given it’s price point it offers a lot of value. To read more details and see the benchmarks, take a look at this article.

Netbooks – A Thought

I have been using a netbook for a while now, and have had several family members use netbooks. After a few weeks of use and some thought about that I might need in terms of a computer in the near future I decided to write a bit about my thoughts on the whole netbook situation. Keep in mind, whether or not a Chromebook is a considered a netbook officially or not, they’re netbooks to me.

I originally purchased the Acer Aspire One due to my last computer dieng, and because of my job as a blogger and working in the marketing profession, I needed something by the next day. Given I didn’t have a lot of money to blow on a laptop, I figured this would do me for a couple of weeks until I could do my research on get on something good. Although this computer was never intended to be my full time computer, I have to admit it has done a pretty good job.  At first glance you think the screen size would be a big issue, and the first couple days it was. I had the same issue with the keyboard. If you have really chubby hands like I do, small keyboards are not your friend. However, the screen size is not as big as a problem long term as I thought it might. I seem to have adjust reasonably well, and with most sites now running HTML5 and CSS, if it is written well the screen sizes adapt reasonably well. They keyboard is still a pain in the ass, so the only thing I could suggest to anyone considering any netbook is to get an external keyboard and attach it.

Most netbooks now come with a reasonable amount of ram, 2GB + is the standard, and given the 1GB in this netbook, I would say 2GB is the bare minimum. Due to (I presume) the low ram, even Xubuntu can get a bit laggy sometimes, but generally speaking it runs pretty smooth. You just have to watch how many programs/windows you are trying to run at once.

All the netbooks I have used have the same general issues with screen and keyboard size. But I think if you accept there are going to be these limitations, the more modern netbooks can handle most of what people are wanting to do on the go anyhow. I have used several Asus netbooks as well and ran into no issue with performance, same with the Chromebooks. They run 95% of what most people do with no issues.

If you need something ultra portable I would suggest considering a netbook, just know and accept the limitiations before you complain it isn’t your 17 inch desktop replacement.

I give the netbook platform 5 crushed beer cans out of 6.