January 7, 2009 by Matt Thomas
The recession hasn’t been bad for everyone. Makers of Netbooks, the new range of dirt cheap laptops have been raking in the money as people jump at the chance to own a compact and perfectly decent computer for between $300 and $500 dollars.
The boom in success for this kind of computer hasn’t gone unnoticed by the high tech industries who are falling over each other to tailor their products to this emerging markets and maybe even make their own netbook-like products that address some of the devices’ failings.
One of those failings is a lack of power, which means they sometimes struggle with videos and complicated graphics. In response to this, HP plans to release a laptop which will retail at just under $700 dollars and boast much improved capabilities in this area. Another failing is that the devices are often hard on their batteries and take a long time to load up. In response to this, Phoenix Technologies has developed HyperSpace, a layer of software that is downloadable and addresses these issues to an extent.
Essentially, this is a sign that technology companies are looking hard for any way through the recession and, when they see an opportunity, are not afraid to go after it aggressively.
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