The data plan sold with the netbook includes up to 5 GB of data – how much is that?
5 GB (or gigabytes) is the equivalent of 5,120 MB (or megabytes) of data. Using general assumptions, 5 GB per month lets you send or receive 150,000 emails with no attachments or 50,000 emails with a five page Microsoft Word document attached to each. Surfing the internet, you could visit 30,000 typical web pages per month if you aren’t downloading files. A song download is about 1 MB per song (or 5,000 per month). Short internet video clips are about 3 MB, but downloading a 2-hour movie will use about 1.5 GB (that’s only 3 movies per month). We recommend downloading large files when you are connected to the Internet via Wi-Fi or Ethernet, which doesn’t use your 3G data allowance at all. In short, 5 GB is a lot of data for most users. To help avoid overage charges, SMS and email alerts can be requested from the carrier to warn you when you are approaching your 5 GB limit, however receipt of these messages is not guaranteed. This information is intended as a guide and actual usage and r
