| Introduction: | | | | workspace-desk or area in a cabinet as an application |
| How do you make the best choice with your hard | | | | server. Desktop costs range as low as a netbook |
| earned money when you need to buy a computer? | | | | and typically are at a lower cost than a notebook |
| Brief Reasoning: | | | | with similar capability. For the best value, one can |
| Low cost netbooks are the smallest, very light | | | | usually find a much higher performance computer, |
| weight, easy to stow away and carry, has WIFI, | | | | more CPU, RAM, disk space, powerful graphics, have |
| networked, but is very limited and slows down when | | | | fast responding applications, for games, video image |
| it comes to running most common large applications. | | | | processing, and video phones. Overall, the desktop |
| Netbooks are great if all you need is a basic online | | | | computer is the best choice if portability is not |
| connection for email and taking notes. | | | | required. |
| Some notebooks and mini-laptops are priced just | | | | Conclusion: |
| above the netbook cost and a performance | | | | A person buying a computer today wants to use |
| notebook may go 2 to 4x of a netbook cost and | | | | their money carefully when investing in computer |
| have larger displays, more computing power, | | | | technology to get the most value and have a |
| memory, disk space, is larger to carry in a backpack, | | | | satisfying experience and a long time benefit. |
| takes more power and battery life is typically a few | | | | It's clear that a performance desktop computer |
| hours. Notebooks are typically designed with a price | | | | system is a much better choice than most laptops |
| point, to match performance with a range of | | | | for fixed location applications. However if portability is |
| moderate to good capability and may perform very | | | | mandatory and good performance is needed a more |
| well for most of today's user application needs. A | | | | expensive notebook (laptop) is a best fit. If you |
| good notebook can easily do most any computing | | | | need it all, high performance and portability, very light |
| that is needed with reasonably good performance | | | | weight and small are mandatory and basic computing |
| and has the advantage of complete under-the-arm | | | | is fine then a buy both a netbook for the portability |
| computer portability and fits on top of your lap or | | | | and a main fixed high performance desktop computer |
| any flat surface top. | | | | to get the best experience and benefits of fast |
| Desktop computers range from very small to large | | | | application performance computing of from desktop |
| boxes that are designed to run off AC wall power | | | | and the ease of mobility with a netbook. |
| and left in a fixed location at a personal | | | | |