NetBooks

There is an increase in popularity surrounding netbooks in recent years. Asus/Acer and a few other computer/laptop manufacturer have been hitting on this market providing a series of products into the laptop/desktop market to get the best out of this demand and hopefully to get the market leadership for netbooks.

It is worth your money then?

Lets look at some of the advantage and disadvantage of netbooks

Pros

1. Lightweight
2. Some netbooks uses solid state drives resulting in smaller but a more reliable storage medium
3. Low power demand thus leading to long to extremely long battery life (Some claim to reach 9 hours)
   
4. Somewhat cheap
5. Wireless connectivity
   

Cons

1. Small storage space, limited amount of data stored heavily require an external storage device
   
2. Processor used is often slow to increase battery life but slows down the process of everything else and thus reduce functionality of it compared to a notebook
3. No DVD/drives
   
4. Very small screens usually less than 10-inch making you strain your eyes on some dense documents
   
5. Few input slots
   

Considering the pros and cons, consider wisely on the odds before you invest on a netbook because a netbook is only designed to for low workload stuff like typing documents and surfing the net.

If you want a computer that only do those, a netbook might be suitable for you.

My personal opinion, i cant stress that it is indeed ultra portable, light and have a long battery life however the lack of functions and the slow processing speed kill the joy out of it. E.g My uncle bought one and i tried to install a vista makeover program for xp but even for that program it cannot run smoothly. So think hard.