Should I Buy a Netbook Over a Laptop PC?
Should I Buy a Netbook Over a Laptop PC?Answer: Netbooks are very specialized computer systems. They are designed to be compact, low cost and have very long running times. In order to achieve these goals, the manufacturers have to make a number of sacrifices. Processors must be slower and have fewer cores making them unable to run certain applications and slower at others. DVD drives are completely removed preventing playback of CDs or DVDs and making it difficult to install store bought software. They are also restricted in the amount of memory and storage space they can have by the Microsoft operating system licenses. More detail about all of this can be found in my What Are Netbooks? article. All of these factors make a netbook a very poor choice if it will be the sole computer in a household. While they are functional for basic web browsing, email and word processing, they are not very capable at any multimedia app
