Seven Of The Best Netbooks Around
It seems like an age since Asus stirred up the ultra-portable market with the release of the Eee PC. Since that time netbooks have grown in size and features, now converging with new smaller, lighter notebooks, and become the perfect travel companions which help you keep in touch with home and work.
Where the first generation of netbooks featured 7 inch screens, small keyboards, and offered reduced specification and computing power now they boast an Intel Atom N450 CPU processor, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB or larger hard drive, and Windows 7 Starter Edition, with Bluetooth as a preferred option, while higher-end options are becoming more prevalent, with 11.6-inch displays, higher screen resolutions, and new graphics hardware, such as Nvidia’s Ion GPU, helping Netbook prices move out of the $299-$399 range.
As the momentum is shifting from mini-note PCs to slates, manufacturers create a lot of hype surrounding netbooks, which makes it hard to figure out if you need this highly-portable device and which one best suits your needs. As it’s tough to tell the winners from the losers just by reading their specs we took the decision to do a bit of research for you so you don’t have to and in the next pages you will find everything you wanted to know about the ACER Aspire One, Gateway’s LT2118u, the HP Mini 5102, Asus Eee PC 1201n and Toshiba’s Mini NB305.
Source : tcmagazine
