I just returned from visiting my brother and his new baby and traveled, again, with only my phone and my Asus Eee PC. As usual, the little laptop did not disappoint. I was able to keep up with email, work with my spreadsheets and word processing documents and do other web research as well. All from a little marvel that cost less than $400 and weighs less than 2 pounds.
Asus was the first to release a successful mini-laptop last fall (the Eee PC), but since then an entire new genre of laptops has been born now known as netbook. Netbooks have lower power processors, smaller screens, wi-fi capability, and small hard drives, but offer almost all the functionality many computer users require…especially while traveling. Asus has released a couple more models since then, and HP, Acer, Dell and others. Type the single word netbook into Google or Wikipedia and see for yourself what this new genre of laptops has to offer. These are low cost, high function, portable machines that offer much to any computer user looking for a light weight travel computer. I suggest staying with the versions that install Linux as the operating system, but these laptops also provide one of the last methods of obtaining a Windows XP computer.
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