Nicole over at Netbook News got her hands on the new Inventec Smartbook for a quick hands on review. It is of course not released yet and will be re-branded by manufactureres in it’s final form, but it should be pretty close to the model here.
Smartbooks have not been as popular as netbooks so far because they lack the functionality of netbooks. They are typically slower, have less graphics capabilities, and don’t have full featured operating systems like Windows 7 or equivalent. Some of the new ones, though, are blurring these lines. The Inventec shown in the video here features an Nvidia Tegra T600 chipset so it has fast boot times as well as full HD video capabilities.
Another interesting feature is that it has no on-board storage, reminiscent of the Google Chrome OS netbooks. It only runs on Windows CE at the moment but we can assume that as it’s rebranded by other manufacturers it might end up running on Android or maybe even Google’s Chrome OS? We’ll have to wait and see.
via NetbookNews
