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Originally Posted by anyonebutedmonton
In regards to the terrible suckitude that is a netbook...
I honestly cannot believe that people enjoy working on these things. The screen size frustrates me to no end, and they are buggy and slow.
They may be somewhat productive for someone looking for an ultra-portable that just needs to take notes in class or something, but if you are looking for something to consume content on, netbooks suck.
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I love my Acer Aspire. The Atom in it is plenty fast for me in XP, much faster than an older Celeron laptop I have.
The screen size on an average netbook is the same size as that of the Ipad. I guess you didn't know that. I agree with most complaints about difficulties typing on netbooks though, but I have small fingers so it is agreeable to me.
As far as consuming content on the netbook, true it's not as easy to browse a photo album and the track pad is annoyingly hard to use (as all trackpads on all laptops are), but actually viewing content is a breeze because I can put music and movies of any format on there and get it to work without any conversion needed. I also already have a huge and limitless library of games from the past 3 decades I can play on it.
There isn't a day I didn't wish I could just touch the screen myself and click on links though, like the iPad. Then again, I also have an Asus EEEPc and you can buy DIY touchscreen kits on DealExtreme for $50. The problem is I have to admit the Windows Tablet Edition software is absolutely atrocious. It's a horrible, horrible thing.