Unless I had downloaded it beforehand, for instance, I had no way of watching a movie while sitting in various airports. The shine on the Mini Note dimmed considerably whenever I needed to do anything that wasn't WiFi related because I had no other means of getting large amounts of data into or out of the device. All my articles were written in Goggle Docs, which allowed me to work offline (not connected to the Web), and made the Mini Note 1000 as portable and functional as any laptop, MacBook included, at least for the narrowly defined set of requirements I had at the time. While out at Macworld, for instance, all my articles were written using an HP Mini Note 1000 that had a 16GB Solid State Drive, a 10-inch screen, a nice big keyboard, and 2GB of RAM. People buy them because they are cheap, and they can do some work, mostly stuff that's Web related. To muddy the netbook waters even more, now Apple is rumored to be preparing a device to compete in the netbook space while not being called a netbook itself, which is ironic since some netbooks aren't called netbooks either. We could go on, but one thing seems clear: netbooks, whatever they are, are a category of computing that has gotten much attention of late.
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Lately many low end, but full featured notebooks cost equal to or less than some popular netbooks, so cost is not the defining factor.
Price! That's the ticket! Because of the combination of weak processors, low memory, and small screens the resulting cost of a device is what makes it a netbook. Some of these processors are pretty powerful and, if mated with decent graphics and memory, could easily give low end notebooks a good fight. It must be the underpowered processors that defines netbooks. No, there are full featured devices with powerful processors that boast 8-inch or smaller screens. Maybe it's the little 8-inch to 10-inch screen that defines the category.
Not quite a serious notebook computer, a tad more than a toy, the computing industry has been scratching its collective noggins trying to figure out just what to do with these devices.Įven the very definition of a netbook is hard to pin down.
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