Is not clear who started, but there is a new kind of laptop is now called “NETBOOK” which offers some important features. Companies like Asus, Acer, Lenovo and others are offering these products in a hurry but what are they?

Could be defined as between a laptop and use a smart phone with a keyboard. The NETBOOK were invented, it seems, for cases in which required using a computer, but do not need to carry a laptop “complete” or are larger teams. One of its main characteristics is that they work with the new Intel Atom processor, which offers better performance, lower power consumption and WiFi connectivity, a key element in such devices.

One of the main attractions that have excelled in this line of equipment is its price, which starts at $ 400. For that amount of money I get from a laptop? Yes and no. Precisely to reduce costs, some manufacturers offer the option-without-like Windows and instead install a Linux variant called Limpus. This avoids the license fee to Microsoft and lowers the cost, but also that can not be run traditional applications such as Office and other well-known in the Windows environment. Of course, the machines come with OpenOffice and a lot of open source programs, which do not require the payment of licenses and which do the same, but are not the same.
After many twists and turns him, still do not know that either type of user they are addressed. Many years ago using laptops, so leave it as normal computer, where they can work well is the norm in a cafe in the airport, in offices, in the end, this is precisely one of the advantages of these machines.

To save costs and maximize the battery, many of these machines do not come with traditional hard drive, instead, offered as a replacement memory cards in capacities of 8GB by typical example, more than enough space for what they are thinking.

Asus, Acer and Lenovo are actively developing and selling its first model with Netbooks and Atom sure we shall soon see versions of HP, Toshiba, Dell and others. Time will tell who will buy and to use them. I imagine, for example, to be a hit among students because the price is undoubtedly a factor in the Argentine market.

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