I have been using a 1.66GHz, 10 inch Netbook since March. Besides using it on the road, the Netbook is also my favorite computer at home for most simple tasks.
Understanding the basics
Battery life and weight should rank at the top of most people's priority list for simple on-the-road computing device. So, what about a "laptop" with 7 hours battery life (with Wi-Fi on), and weight only about 3 pounds?
Creative packaging
The model of my netbook is ASUS Eee PC 1000HE. It uses a low power consumption, hyper-threading Intel processor. It uses Windows XP instead of Vista, and has a 1024-pixels horizon screen (wide enough for most web pages). The chiclet (Apple style) keyboard is very nice too at 92% full size. The performance button can overclock or underclock the CPU as needed.. The 2 fingers scrolling on the touch pad is very user friendly. To round up a nice netbook, ASUS includes a 160GB hard drive, 1 GB memory, 802.11n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
Drawbacks and workarounds
I have some slight disappointment with the 600 pixels vertical display. It is acceptable once I switched to the full screen mode for most programs. To work around the missing DVD drive, I mounted the DVD drive of my Vista laptop to this netbook over Wi-Fi, for the occasional use to install programs.
Conclusion
This new invention is quickly gaining more market share over traditional laptops. It will continue to get better and be more powerful.
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