Netbooks
When Laptops Go Light
Excerpt:
A netbook is a laptop with a shrunken screen, an undersize keyboard and a processor that’s so slow, you’d have laughed at it in 2007. The netbooks’ crucial attractions are tiny dimensions, light weight and low cost, usually $350 to $500. Otherwise, they’re all about compromises.
The term “netbook” is a euphemism, intended to stress its main functions: e-mail, Web browsing, chat, Skype and word processing. The hope is to distract you from what netbooks are too feeble to do well: Photoshop, video editing, games and so on.
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wow, this guy has a grudge against netbooks. He really has no idea what they are, besides in a technical sense. He barely touches on it, and then proceeds to rip into them as if he never said it. What that is? A netbook is not designed to be a primary computer, it is designed to supplement your primary computer. It would be like me saying your brand new BMW is worthless because it cannot handle the dirt backroads, or the other way around.
ReplyDeleteI would recommend if you are to get one, to get a linux model. I believe they outperform the windows versions.
Also, on mine, I can do photoshop (well, Gimp to be specific. But Gimp is practically the same thing as photoshop, but free) I run games on it. I know people who have played full fledged online games on a netbook.
As far as HDD size goes, well, I don't think it really matters all that much, considering (IMO) people are moving towards an online storage solution. Mine only has a 40gig drive, and it works fine.
Also, the age of the CD/DVD, again IMO, is starting to come to an end. Sure, it may not be years till it does, but I fell their days are numbered. And most people carry their stuff on USB drives anyways.
IMO, the question that needs to be asked is, why do you have a full size notebook/desktop? Besides highend gaming and video editing, I don't think there is much you cannot do on a netbook. In addition, most if not all have bluetooth so you can hook up a keyboard/mouse. Also, some have a vga out which you can use to hook to an external monitor. So really, at home at my desk I can hook up my bluetooth keyboard/mouse/monitor and work as if I am on a full size computer. Then when I leave on a trip to the couch, friends house, out of state, out of country, just grab the netbook and go.
So what is the point of a full size computer if all you are doing is web/email/office?