Lenovo's Love Story for Netbook S9/S10 and e-learning

Image by CaptPiper via Flickr The form factor of the new generation sub compact notebook PC's also known as Netbooks lies somewhere in between a laptop and a smart mobile phone. Their product dimensions are approximately 8.0 x 7 x 1.2 inches ; weighing around 2.2 pounds. This makes them an ideal thin client for cloud computing.







They are about the size of a text book. They are lighter, easier to carry and have the processing capability to effectively run interactive multimedia e-learning content along with complete connectivity to the Internet. These advances in connected devices and Internet infrastructure will provide the necessary boost we need to promote and utilize effective e-learning once the wireless connectivity to the Internet becomes affordable and ubiquitous through seamless integration of WiFi and cellular networking infrastructure.

In other words the current computing and networking infrastructure can support e-learning but it is not an ideal one. The future of e-learning content creation and delivery lies with netbook+wireless networking+Servers supported by cloud computing. Some people will argue that we can use mobile phone to deliver effective e-learning. It is quite possible but the screen on mobile phone is small that restricts the kind of e-learning content that can be delivered through mobile phones.

Only thing missing from Netbooks is tablet PC capabilities. Addition of tablet with write,save and share capabilities will make Netbooks an ideal platform for learning because it will allow student to interact and share their learning with other learners.

I think Netbooks will be very popular if nothing else but for their low cost Internet connecting devices once cloud computing gains some traction.

This is a major shift in computing platform. In fact about the same proportion when computing shifted from mainframes/mini computers to desktop PC's. A fast browser like Google Chrome or something similar will be a major component of this newly emerging computing and communication platform.

Here is a nice commercial from Lenovo, the Chinese company who is responsible for manufacturing IBM laptops:

While we've been dealing with short-form ad fare in the States, China's gone all artsy on us, with Lenovo releasing a short film to promote its S9 / S10 netbook. We won't ruin the plot for you -- the dialogue is all in Chinese, so it's not like we could -- but suffice it to say that the Lenovo S10 and unrequited love play major roles.

Source

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDE2MjU4MDQ=.html?full=true#full

The Embedded video shows just fine in the preview of the post but fails to show up in the blog post. A bug somewhere in Blogger code or in the code for embedding video.

Here is the original URL for the video http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDE2MjU4MDQ=.html?full=true#full

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