"I gota laugh at the number of people expecting better performance though. What on earth gave them that idea? NetBooks are smaller, cheaper, and the specs clearly show they have a slower processor. What part of that screams "Buy me because I am fast!"?! "
I don't know but I have overheard and seen sales people market these netbooks on their size alone. Most consumers see the Mhz/Ghz of the processor and that is all they look at. One of the people in my organization that has a Regular Notebook and a netbook came to me and said that her netbook was slow and I replied yeah it will be much slower than a regular computer. Her reply was well my Laptop is 1.8Ghz and this is 1.6Ghz so there is no reason why it should be that much slower. I had to remind her that I warned her of this before she purchased it. She only got it because she said her laptop was too heavy. To put it in perspective the 10" netbook is 2.5lbs and the 14" Notebook is 4.8lbs. Sure it is about 1.5lbs heavier but under 5lbs is not that heavy. Also when you think about all the stuff that she crams into her laptop carrying cart that is on wheels and has a handle like most roll luggage because she travels a lot she is not saving all that much now is she. Sure the netbook was $450 with the ram upgrade and Windows Version upgrade and her notebook was close to $850. One of the primary reason's the laptop was so much more is because it has a 5 year warranty on it. But it also has a Intel C2D processor at 1.8Ghz, 2Gb ram, DVD-RW and performs a hell of a lot better. Some people seem to focus in on weight and IMO that is not worth the performance/feature hit.
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