In the yard, after all, but the 21st century is already in full swing and scientific and technological progress does not stand still. To date, personal computer manufacturers have reached such a level that these devices can even be carried in your pocket.
To date, the success of models netbooks forced laptop companies to lower their cost. And now, without much difficulty, you can purchase a fairly inexpensive laptop model, the cost of which is less than three thousand dollars. For a long period of time, only computers of little-known manufacturers were available to us, but now on the shelves of stores and electronics supermarkets you can find personal computers of such brands as Dell, Samsung, Asus, Acer, Lenovo and Toshiba.
At first glance, everything looked quite simple - I came to the store, chose the laptop model I liked and bought it. But here on the horizon appeared netbooks, which are largely smaller in size from laptops, and their cost is lower, in the range of 2.5 - 5 thousand hryvnia. So what will be better in the final version? To begin with, you still need to figure out what a laptop and a netbook are and what kind of differences these laptops are from each other.
Let's start some kind of educational program with a netbook.
If you characterize this laptop as a whole, then a netbook is a device with a small LCD display and relatively low performance, designed for Internet access and for working with office applications. This device is distinguished by its compact size, low weight, low power consumption and a relatively low price. There are also netbook models with touchscreen displays.
Actually, this term was coined by Intel. So, the term netbook means that this device is awarded with a small case size and the minimum necessary equipment. Initially, the term netbook was used back in 1999 to refer to a pocket personal computer.
Why is this netbook good? First, it is, of course, the dimensions of the device. With a netbook, you will be able to travel, taking it with you on the road, wander in the world boundless Internet network, run your blog, view your personal e-mail, watch your favorite and memorable photos, read interesting e-books. The significant disadvantages of this device include the fact that a netbook is not a full-fledged personal computer, and one cannot but agree with this. It will be impossible to work on a netbook in complex programs, since the resources of this mobile device are significantly limited. Also on netbooks there is no DVD drive for playing optical discs of various formats (although there are some models that are equipped with DVD drives, but they differ from their counterparts in their high price). Based on this, you will deprive yourself of the opportunity to install software, watch movies and cartoons, listen to music, and also watch photos, well, except that this can be done with the help of hard drive , or an external DVD-ROM drive. It should also be noted here that not every netbook model can handle DVD video images, let alone HD.
I would like to say a few more words about the operating system with which the netbook works. No matter how good the well-known Windows XP operating system is, it is less suitable for a netbook and will give way to Linux.The whole point is that the Windows operating system consumes a lot of resources, and this is contraindicated for a netbook. In this regard, the Linux operating system will have a significant advantage. Today, for the Linux operating system, you can easily purchase a huge amount of software that is in no way inferior to its counterparts of the Windows operating system.
As for hard drives, many netbook models have special SSD drives that significantly slow down the normal functioning of the system. Of course, SSD-drives have the ability to work faster than conventional hard drives, but this applies only to fairly high-quality, and, accordingly, expensive laptops that have fast memory chips. The manifestation of this kind of slowness is observed already during copying of various kinds of files, not to mention the carrying out of more capacious actions.
Now let's talk a little about laptops , with what all the same, let's say, they are "eaten".
A laptop is a notebook, or notebook personal computer, in a case of which all the typical components are combined, including an LCD screen, keyboard and touchpad, as well as a rechargeable battery.
A laptop is essentially the same stationary computer, which is distinguished by its compactness and mobility. In a laptop, unlike a netbook, there are no resource limitations and due to the fact that they are equipped with voluminous hard drives, it is possible to install on them all the most common operating systems for a given period of time, including the latest version of Windows 7. In addition, on expensive laptop models are equipped with sufficiently powerful processors and RAM, including up to eight gigabytes, which in turn makes it possible for the device to function in rather complex graphic programs, as well as play modern computer games.
In notebooks, unlike netbooks, a built-in DVD drive is provided by the design, for reading information from optical discs, which will allow the user to install the necessary applications and watch films and cartoons. The most common size of liquid crystal display in notebooks is 15.4 "diagonal, which in turn makes working with a laptop more comfortable than on 7-10" netbook screens. On laptops, the keyboard is much more convenient, the keys on which are located in the same way as on the keyboard of a stationary computer model.
Of course, like any device in laptop there are also disadvantages. Laptops are larger and heavier than netbooks. If we talk about inexpensive models, it should be noted that the battery charge will last on average for 2 hours of operation, thereby tying users to the outlet. In the case when you often take your laptop on the road, then such a device will certainly not suit you, but in this case you need to focus on more expensive models, on which one battery charge will be enough for five or even more hours. And this is comparable to the duration of operation of cheaper models of nebucks
If you want to purchase one of these laptops for yourself, then first you need to decide for what needs it will serve you. If you constantly need the presence of the Internet, then, taking a USB modem, a netbook for these purposes is fully suitable. Also, netbooks will perfectly cope with various office tasks - and this is the creation of text documents, and work with spreadsheets, as well as the creation of presentations with slides. The netbook will be good for that category of users who consider themselves mobile and can safely take the device on the road and use it as a second computer.In fact, when choosing a device, you need to focus on personal feelings - how comfortable the keyboard is, how the interface connectors and ports are located on the case, how the protective cover of the display opens, the appearance of the laptop, as well as the color scheme of its case.
conclusions
Potential buyers of this kind of miniature computers should take into account the fact that netbooks are not particularly fast and powerful. For their optimal use, you should use the software that requires less resource consumption to ensure comfortable work. When you have a perennial disk space problem, you need to use portable versions of the software that will work without the need for installation - with memory cards .
This was a brief overview of the models of portable computers (laptops and netbooks), and which one would be better to buy for yourself, of course, is up to you. However, if you think about it, a bright and wonderful future is predicted for netbooks.
