taoshum
Well-known member
When does a netbook become a notebook? Or a laptop, for that matter? Is it just a matter of screen size?
IMHO, it is a combination of features, size, weight and cost... everything except an optical drive, 10" or so screen, proportional size, 2 lbs or less, under $400, running XP (if I'm going to buy it) and, BTW, if you get from CostCo they double the warranty and have some tech support. ASUS invented netbooks; it's an interesting story... kinda of a skunks works deal... some maverick manager decided to build a pilot production run of 20,000 units and they sold out in the first few hours. Now Acer, Dell and HP all offer some version or another. The new models have much larger HDs or a solid state HD so they should be even less weight. They have a pretty slow, low power processor so big graphics files will not run or will run slowly. thx, G.