Ever since the release of Eeepc by Asus in the year 2007, the interest in netbooks has gained a huge edge. In spite of the fact that they are comparatively lesser powerful than the normal laptops but at the same time they are also inexpensive and convenient to handle.
A few noteworthy logics are presented below in favour of buying netbooks over laptops:
1. Economical – Laptops are usually not within the affordability range of general mass. If you’re a financially struggling student with a part time job at hand, then netbooks is surely economical and can perform majority of the functions that a normal laptop does but can be an edge slower in terms of speed.
2. Open Source Software – Majority of these computers arrives with free of cost open source software. You need not splashing out a few hundred of dollars in buying expensive software which you seldom access. For an example, instead of buying Microsoft Office you can fully unlock the potentials of OpenOffice software which is totally a free office application.
3. Size and Weight- the Netbooks are small sized and also light in weight. If you were ever an owner or user a laptop before, then you might be well acquainted with the fact that they take up a lot of desk space. Whereas, you can easily fit in a netbook inside a suitcase or keep it on your lap as you sit down.
4. Power factor and Battery issue- As the netbooks consumes lesser power than the usual notebooks, the longevity of the batteries are usually more. For an example, the longevity of the new Eeepc batteries is more than 12 hours once fully charged. It is pretty difficult to get any other laptop which has the same battery life or even a battery life of more than ten hours.
5. Applications- Quite any desktop application available on market today can be run on these Netbooks. In spite of the fact that the CPU of these netbooks isn’t as powerful as the regular desktop machines, even then it can execute majority of the desktop applications with sheer efficiency.