Laptop, NoteBook, NetBook In Comparison

You hear the word netbook quite often recently and may start to wonder what that is. Does that have something to do with notebooks? But I thought those were laptops? There are different origins to each word and many “experts” will tell you the exact time, place and company of each origin. For example, netbook is currently being trademarked (if not already) by a UK firm. But in short, they are marketing terms created to sell new lines of products.

So are you telling me laptops are notebooks, which in turn are the new netbooks? Far from it. Although they may be marketing terms, they do in reality serve as categories within the portable personal computer category that denote a specific purpose to consumers. These three marketing terms tell the consumer where they should be looking based on their specific needs. For example, a teenager who does schoolwork, play games and surfs the web will probably want a laptop for his needs. Another teenager who does schoolwork, blogs and carries it to school will probably want a small notebook. A mother of these two teenagers who emails and surfs the web would probably be happy with a netbook.

Broadly summarized, laptops can be considered as portable desktops and notebooks as lightweight laptops, although both words have become synonymous and interchangeable. The new entrant of the three called netbooks can be considered as inexpensive notebooks mainly for internet use.

So when you’re deciding on what to get next, consider what you will be mainly using it for. If surfing the web is all you do, a notebook may be going overboard. Getting a netbook and using the savings on something else may be a wise choice. Remember that a netbook is an inexpensive option for basic uses. That means if you’re a power user, don’t buy a netbook and try to run video rendering software on it and call it slow!.

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Both of them have similarity in appearance but having different user orientation, notebook / laptop is for power user who need high performance and netbook is for user who just need to do small scale work or even just surfing the web. Again, the coiche is up to the user needs.

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