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A netbook is a small notebook that are ideal for internet-based applications such as mail, web-browsing and instant messaging. You can buy them with both windows or linux. The windows version is dominant. Since Windows Vista is too demanding for the hardware, they are shipped with Windows XP.

If you think it’s boring to use the computer at home all the time I recommend you to buy a netbook. A bus ride or a coffee at a café will never be the same again. But i would recommend you to subscribe to a 3g-internet service as well. A netbook without the net is not that fun…

Netbooks prove that we finally know what PCs are actuallly for. Which is to say not all that much. – Wired

With the netbooks, computer companies has really started to think as mobile phone vendors. The computers are good looking, colorful and designed as consumer products. The idea came originally from the OLPC- one laptop per child organization that tried to invent a pc with a price of 100$. Netbooks is the finally have ended the performance wars in the computer industry.

I have been using my EEEpc 901go quite heavily for 2 months now. During this period i have carried it with me during the days. I find the computer extremely useful on buses, trains and coffee breaks. It is small enough to fit in my small carry-on-case and the weight is nothing that I need to care about.

EEEpc 901go technical specifications:

There are many netbooks on the market now. All have the Intel Atom CPU. It is very power efficient and the rest of the hardware such as motherboard, graphics and sound are similar on all models.

I bought the 901go for 3 reasons:

1. The 901 had a 16GB SSD drive (solid state). This means that the 901 is not equipped with an ordinary harddrive so it is not that sensitive when you carry it with you.
2. 6-cell battery will give the computer 6 hours of battery time on both windows and linux.
3. Internal 3g modem.

What my netbook can do without problem

The hardware is designed to be cheap and power efficient. But you can be 100% sure that it’s enough for:

• Web web web.. .No problem at all. Web browsing, blogging, email, skype, instant messaging.
• Music with iTunes or streaming by Last.fm or Spotify
• Video playback (even streaming with livestation is working very well)
• Word and other office applications.
• Image viewing

What my netbook cannot do that well

• Image editing
• Video editing and encoding
• Playing heavy computer games

I have been testing it hard with Windows XP and some linux distributions: Moblin, Ubuntu 8.10, Easy Peasy 1.0 and the alpha versions of Ubuntu 9.04. My current setup is a dual boot with Windows XP and Ubuntu 9.04. I am very satisfied with this setup. The startup time is really quick due to the SSD drive.

I can recommend you to buy one, be a netbooker

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