by Matt Williamson on September 16th, 2008

Our computers are shrinking again, even as they become incredibly more powerful.  Ultra portable laptops, sometimes called ‘netbooks’, are sitting on boardroom tables all across America, and smartphones are in the hands of teenagers, the college crowd. and (shudder) even our CEOs.  As these devices move from the techno-elite early adopters to the workspace, we will see even more advancement.

Apple’s Macbook AirFirst, let’s take a little time to investigate some of the offerings.  At the high end we have systems like the  Macbook Air from Apple.  While the Air might not have the smallest form factor, it is slim, sleek, and nearly weightless compared to most laptop computers on the market today.  One of the reasons it can be so small is that Apple has moved the CD/DVD drive out of the laptop, allowing for a much thinner base.  On the high end version we also have a tiny, energy efficient, 64GB solid state hard drive.  You can think of the hard drives in an iPod for comparison.  The reason that Apple knows it can get away with such a small hard drive is that they offer their me.com as an alternative to your storage needs.  Me’s storage is built into the Mac OS as the ‘iDisk’ and it looks just like any other hard drive on an Apple.

Dell has released their version of a netbook with the Inspiron Mini 9.  It is small by any standard, the screen is 8.9″ compared to the 13″ display on the Macbook Air, but …

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