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Jamie Lendino Netbooks have captured the publics imagination. Its the kind of machine many have long clamored for: inexpensive, lightweight, and just powerful enough for the basic, day-to-day, Internet-based tasks that consumers and corporate mavens normally tote a regular laptop for. At the same time, todays netbooks arent perfect. Many suffer cramped keyboards and track pads; neither is fun to use during marathon typing sessions.
Some netbooks are more comfortable than others, but nearly all sport keys that are less than full size. Theres also the lack of screen real estateanyone coming from a 22-inch widescreen LCD will struggle to fit whatever theyre doing on a netbooks tiny 8.9-inch or 10-inch, limited resolution panel. Since netbooks are such small, inexpensive devices, they also include processors, memory, and (most significantly) hard disks several generations behind the ones in regular notebooks. Intel is combating this to some extent with its new Atom processor, which is designed with netbooks in mind. With solid-state disk prices firmly affixed to the stratosphere, these concerns wont be allayed any time soon. But fixing the above issues isnt really the answer. Instead, theyre part and parcel of what makes a netbook. Increase the screen and keyboard size, and add in a more powerful processor, and you no longer have a netbookyou have a laptop. And with full-blown, 15.4-inch notebooks starting in the $500 range this holiday season, theres no need for netbooks to go in that direction. ...
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