![]() ![]() ![]() This means they are light, rugged and ultra, ultra portable. Usually, they don't have an optical (CD or DVD) drive, and many use solid-slate hard drives instead of traditional spinning hard disks. Most float around 8.9 inches, though some go larger. Some of the netbooks on the market sport tiny, 7-inch screens. Netbooks are tiny, light and cheap notebook computers, and they typically run Linux, Windows or the Mac OS (actually, only the MacBook Air runs the Apple operating system natively, and at $1,800, it's hard to classify it with its competitors). This is music to the ears of people who need serious horsepower for the computers, like video editors, animators, hard-core gamers, graphic designers or musicians.īut for the rest of computer buyers - which is most of us - people who use their PCs to surf the Web, check e-mail, do word processing and the build the occasional spreadsheet, laptops currently on the market are now way overpowered and similarly overpriced. As prices on hardware drop, PC makers create more and more powerful machines to keep their products at a reasonable price point. ![]() When it's all said and done, I predict tech geeks will remember 2009 as "the year of the netbook."Īnd, if you haven't heard of a netbook, you will soon.Ī little background: the personal computer industry is a bit like the Cold War arms race. ![]()
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