That said, you can make a wealth of netbook customizations, and they range in difficulty from 5-minute routines to soldering-gun-based surgeries.
If you want to upgrade your machine, we recommend that you hunt down the instruction manual or, in the case of trickier upgrades, a community of users who can walk you through the process of modifying and hacking new functionality into your extremely portable PC. Each model is unique in what you can do to it, and the exact procedures for modifying your device are as varied as the netbooks themselves. These are all common problems–and you won’t find common solutions.ĭue to their diversity, netbooks don’t share common upgrade paths as typical desktop PCs do. A netbook with a superior battery might have a horrible keyboard arrangement a netbook with a solid-state drive might slip out of your price range a netbook with a killer list of specs might be missing 802.11n connectivity. Opera Unite is a bit more than a year old, it’s far from being finished.Netbooks are universally regarded for their portability, but no two netbook models are exactly alike, and each seems to come with different trade-offs. It took a while to take advantage of them, but now they seems to be on track even if you deny it. But widgets were introduced in 2006, more than 4 years ago. Opera is a small business company, it cannot create hype.
niche use patterns, almost no users, no new services for months, unite links no longer shoveled by opera each time they brag about the browser. it affects the time opera starts and closes.īy how much? 100ms? 200? :) Still, Opera will have by far the smallest installer (when FF4 arrives until then – I must admit – it’s just a bit smaller than any other of them…), a nice adaptive memory consumption and great speed including rendering and UI.Īnd unite… is a textbook example of FAIL.
Opera tracing tools show clearly that mail etc is activated, loaded and eats resources even when no accounts are set. (why would they use any other if Opera – which already supplied the browser – can supply them?) They did not mentioned (should they?), but I’m pretty sure, that those are Opera widgets.
This clearly states, that the new Sony TVs using Opera as web browser: “You can even visit your favourite websites and search the Internet using an Opera web browser on the TV screen.”īesides some of them have “BRAVIA Internet Widgets” (see: ). If you are there, you should visit Sony then for example. You will see more about these contracts from press releases and company presentations. How do you know, that you didn’t see any? You waited for an Opera splash screen during boot-up, or what? Those stuffs are usually business stuffs, so these products are heavily branded by the device manufacturer. What 3rd party are you looking for? There is Opera and there is the device manufacturer. haven’t had a chance to see everything yet (its enormous venue, IFA was a petty show), but one would expect it to be all over the place if that what you say is true. Funny stuff – here at CES i couldn’t find A SINGLE opera driven 3rd party device yet.