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Topic: Tech/Science
Title: Blackberry's PlayBook Tablet
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Publication Name: CNN
Date of Publication:
Length: 343 words
Main Idea:
Apple's iPad has been doing so well financially that Blackberry developed its own product for the tablet market, the PlayBook. The PlayBook is smaller than the iPad and has twice the processing power with dual core processing. It also has four times the available memory, with 1 GB of RAM as opposed to 256 MB of RAM on the iPad. No one would want these kind of specs for their personal computer and the screen is really too small for doing any serious work or play. However, this is a breakthrough in a different market: the tablet market.
Tablets are much tinier than laptops and desktops and are designed that way to be able to be taken more places than laptops. To have two reasonable processors and a gigabyte of memory in such small devices opens up much more flexibility for developers and those whose business revolves around easy access to the web no matter where they go. While quad-core laptops are currently hitting the market as the new best in affordable, dual-core tablets with more and more memory.
The PlayBook will be released in 2011 and is something of a gamble for Research in Motion. RIM's Blackberry Torch wasn't an instant hit, and RIM is hoping the PlayBook does better.
Conclusion:
Computing power is getting better and better every year, manifesting in more and more convenient devices. The iPod Nano is an example of how small computers can become and still be fast. Intel supercomputers, with hundreds of processors, are examples of how powerful computers can become and still fit in a box. Now all sizes in between are being tested and produced. Computers have integrated into the lives of Americans and are still a growing commodity.
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