Microsoft Courier Tablet PC – Courier vs. Apple Tablet?

If you haven’t seen Microsoft’s Courier, the “secret” tablet they’ve been working on, then let’s start this by showing the video that’s been going around that has a mock-up of what it may look like to use the device:

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Intel Clarkdale CPU and Intel Arrendale CPU Benchmarks

I know that Intel’s Core i3 CPUs aren’t out yet, but that doesn’t stop some sites from getting closed-door previews of what to expect when these processors come out in the fourth quarter of 2009. Keeping in mind that the Intel Clarkdale and Intel Arrrendale CPUs these are dual-core processors (which I understand may be a bitter pill to swallow for some, but shouldn’t be when you consider the possible applications for these CPUs) the numbers are looking pretty good.

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Is the iPod Touch/iPhone the New Netbook?

If you caught the Apple “It’s Only Rock and Roll” event this week then you may have seen the following picture.

Photo courtesy Engadget

If you paid attention to what Phil Schiller was saying while he was on the stage, he was basically implying that the iPod Touch (and I think more so, the iPhone) is Apple’s answer to the netbook market. Sure, he didn’t come right out and say just that, but if you remember that Apple has said in the past that they have no interest in getting into the “nascent” netbook market, then this kind of makes sense as being their answer to it. The funny thing is that the answer has been there in front of us for over two years now.

So, this brings us to the question: is the iPod Touch/iPhone the new netbook?

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