Netbooks Good or Bad

Lots of mini laptops or Netbooks hit the Market over the past year, as many manufacturers recognized a hole in the much saturated laptop Market.


But is this a good or bad thing for the consumer?

In the world of laptop specs you get what you pay for, so can cheap Netbooks really compete with small full blown laptops?

I'm all for cheap mini laptops - that is of course if the purchaser understands what they are actually getting.

Over the past year lots of manufacturers have released cheap mini laptops.








They all seem to run either Windows Xp, or really cheap Netbooks run some flavour of Unix.
As soon as I saw Unix this started the alarm bells ringing, not because Unix is a bad system, but because it can run on much lower hardware specifications than Windows.

After checking out various specs it would seem the reason for this is indeed the low hardware specifications.
Releasing cheap mini laptops is a great thing, as long as it's understood this means low specs, in essence a laptop that's really designed for word processing, email & browsing, but as for large apps, recent games or any higher end graphics forget it.

If you’re in the Market for a cheap mini laptop for light use such as browsing, email, word processing etc then cheap Netbooks are ideal for this.

Just make sure you buy one running Windows Xp rather than Unix if your not used to Unix as changing from Unix to Xp on this type of laptop is generally very difficult due to the hardware specs.

Pluses

Many models are cheap

Good battery life

Light, easy to transport


Minuses
Cannot run Vista
Slow processor
Very limited upgrades

No built in CD/DVD Drive