He was, of course, unfairly attractive anyway, in his craggy, lived-in, blue-eyed way, but not so much as to render anyone speechless or unable to operate a notebook.
This week code surfaced that Google is also readying tablet-friendly features for Chrome OS, once pitched as an ideal Netbook companion but now increasingly labeled as a "notebook" operating system on Google's Chrome OS product page.
"Who's that?" a patient asked me as she awaited anesthesia and noticed Osteen standing off to the side of the operating room, notebook in hand.
Thanks to a new line of cheap chips from Intel and licensing deals from Microsoft that let computer makers squirt Microsoft's Windows operating system into dinky notebook -- or 'netbook' -- computers, sales of netbook computers rose to 33.1 million units in 2010, Cowan and Company estimates.
At his keynote speech at the giant Comdex computer show next week in Las Vegas, Microsoft's chairman, William H. Gates, will demonstrate a prototype of a portable computing slate the size of an 8 1/2-by-11-inch notebook, operated not with a keyboard but with a stylus.
C7 Microsoft's New Bet Microsoft's chairman, William H. Gates, will demonstrate a prototype of a portable computing slate the size of an 8 1/2-by-11-inch notebook, operated not with a keyboard but with a stylus, at the giant Comdex computer show next week.
Maxtor and Komag will also benefit from these increased demand patterns, but Maxtor "continues to be supply-constrained," and also Maxtor and Komag do not currently operate in the notebook market.
A baseball official said that Bob DuPuy, the chief operating officer, has a 300-page notebook covering all of the issues that could arise in a club bankruptcy.
The techniques of the cutaway and exploded views (still indispensable for assembly, operating, and repair manuals) originated in his notebooks.
Thus, with Microsoft's operating systems installed on around 90% of all desktops, laptops and notebooks, every tablet bought to replace a PC means one less copy of Windows is sold.
