| You hear the word netbook quite often recently and | | | | to school will probably want a small notebook. A |
| may start to wonder what that is. Does that have | | | | mother of these two teenagers who emails and |
| something to do with notebooks? But I thought | | | | surfs the web would probably be happy with a |
| those were laptops? There are different origins to | | | | netbook. |
| each word and many “experts” will tell you | | | | Broadly summarized, laptops can be considered as |
| the exact time, place and company of each origin. | | | | portable desktops and notebooks as lightweight |
| For example, netbook is currently being trademarked | | | | laptops, although both words have become |
| (if not already) by a UK firm. But in short, they are | | | | synonymous and interchangeable. The new entrant |
| marketing terms created to sell new lines of | | | | of the three called netbooks can be considered as |
| products. | | | | inexpensive notebooks mainly for internet use. |
| So are you telling me laptops are notebooks, which in | | | | So when you’re deciding on what to get next, |
| turn are the new netbooks? Far from it. Although | | | | consider what you will be mainly using it for. If surfing |
| they may be marketing terms, they do in reality | | | | the web is all you do, a notebook may be going |
| serve as categories within the portable personal | | | | overboard. Getting a netbook and using the savings |
| computer category that denote a specific purpose to | | | | on something else may be a wise choice. Remember |
| consumers. These three marketing terms tell the | | | | that a netbook is an inexpensive option for basic |
| consumer where they should be looking based on | | | | uses. That means if you’re a power user, |
| their specific needs. For example, a teenager who | | | | don’t buy a netbook and try to run video |
| does schoolwork, play games and surfs the web will | | | | rendering software on it and call it slow! It’s |
| probably want a laptop for his needs. Another | | | | probably best to stick to the laptop aisle. |
| teenager who does schoolwork, blogs and carries it | | | | |