Netbook to the throne

In just one morning, 2,500 Eee PC netbooks from Asus were sold out in Vietnam, but the number of people who ordered and waited to own the Eee PC was still quite long. Without delay, netbooks "made in Vietnam" are about to be released.

With a price of less than 500 USD, this is an option for those who like fashion, lightweight and have basic needs such as surfing the web, listening to music, typing simple text.

Enough for a computer

The term netbook refers to laptops that are under 10 inches in size, streamlining features and reasonable costs, focusing on Intel's Internet exploits in the early Intel developer forum. year. According to Intel, 2008 will be the year of netbooks and netbook sales in Vietnam will account for about 10% of laptop sales.

HT, a journalist specializing in cultural culture, quickly owned a netbook quite early and was very pleased with her Eee PC. Preferably traveling, every time you go, stuffing a netbook in your bag can be reassured, wherever you can pull a card, send mail, as long as it has a net. Because of owning the first netbook, the big concern of T. is that the 4GB hard drive will not store much, the small keyboard can only type and handle simple documents.

Duong Vi Khoa, the computer forum administrator, is waiting for the Acer Aspire One to be sold by the end of July. This guy has a hobby of wandering to take pictures and according to Khoa, an 8.9-inch, light-weight computer of under 1kg can install Win XP, Photoshop will be very convenient to carry with photographic equipment. Less than 500 USD, this machine is enough for the need to copy images to the computer, view, delete and surf the web. For every photo-taking trip of Khoa, just that much is enough.

VND 5 to 6 million for Vietnamese netbooks

The scene lined up waiting to buy EeePC at Phong Vu store, Ho Chi Minh City in mid-May 2008 - Photo: Hoang Huy

Netbooks originated from a very good project: OLPC (one laptop per child) for developing countries, poor countries. But the school attendance rate is only 50% in poor countries, and the problem of "bread or computer" or "food aid or technology", and children using computers for the wrong purposes have hindered OLPC's development step. Currently, the project is offering new programs to push the project forward as an American citizen bought two project computers for $ 399, one for use, the other will be sent to for a child in a developing country.

Not participating in the OLPC project, but inspired by that Asus quickly launched EeePC and was excited by users. Intel giants pulled out of the OLPC project, focusing on the Classmate PC series, which focuses on manufacturing and selling netbook chips. Big notebook makers also reveled in netbook products.

Without slowing down, the two Vietnamese manufacturers participating in this market are CMS and Khai Tri. CMS products called ICBook will be released in July, according to Intel's promise, this ICBook is particularly attractive in style. Wiscom of Khai Tri will be the 2nd generation of the Classmate PC with 9-inch LCD screen, 6-cell battery, 512 MB memory, 30 GB hard drive and an integrated webcam. Support operating system Microsoft Windows XP and Hacao Linux, prices from over 5 million to over 6 million.