| The main decision when choosing a computer used | | | | These notebooks also come with very large hard |
| to be picking from a desktop computer or a laptop. | | | | drives and they can easily be a storage device |
| Nowadays, the laptops have become even more | | | | allowing you to take your music and files anywhere. |
| powerful and have the same capabilities as a desktop | | | | A lot of these run on the latest operating system |
| PC due to the advancement in technology, and | | | | and you can get Windows 7 on them if you are |
| making that technology more compact. This has led | | | | purchasing one. |
| to the introduction of smaller laptops such as | | | | Your choice then really depends on what you want |
| notebooks and netbooks. | | | | from your netbook or laptop. If you just need to run |
| Netbooks are much smaller and lighter than | | | | word processors or spreadsheets and browse the |
| conventional laptops. The first netbooks were not | | | | internet then the netbooks are fine. If the reason |
| very powerful and could only handle one software at | | | | you want it is to get a little work done on the train |
| a time. The netbooks could not handle any large files | | | | then this would be perfect as it is light and very small. |
| and even simple tasks on a word processor and a | | | | Perfect for carrying around. If you are after the |
| spreadsheet became a chore. The netbooks that are | | | | performance and the power and want to use the |
| out in 2010 are still compact but now they have the | | | | computer at home as well then laptops should be |
| punch. They are much faster and can handle a lot of | | | | your choice. The price of netbooks are very cheap |
| software running at the same time. The processor | | | | and you can pick one up for as little as £200. |
| found in a lot of these are the Atom processors. | | | | |