netbooks

Netbooks are quickly gaining popularity among computer users the world over. Their small footprint, long battery life, cheap price and ease of use make them ideal for carrying around town, to and from school, at work and even during travel. Pretty much all major computer vendors now sell a netbook of some sort, from Dell to HP to Lenovo and many others, and they continue to gain a strong foothold in the portable computing world.

Netbooks are generally light weight, general purpose machines. They use smaller, slower processors (the Intel Atom seems to be the most popular, IMO), many use solid state drives instead of traditional spinning platters, and most definitely do not come with optical drives (CD/DVD drives). They usually ship with Windows XP (Just when Microsoft thought that they could kill off XP, here comes the netbook) and more and more, you can buy them pre-loaded with Linux.  read more »