The “netbook” has only been with us for a couple of years, and yet in that time, it has managed to completely shake up the laptop market, driving prices down,
down, down. But I'm here to tell you that the reign of the netbook is over!
The reason for their untimely demise is that netbooks have traditionally been shipped with Windows XP, as netbooks weren't powerful enough for Windows Vista. Since nobody really wanted Vista anyway, everybody was happy with this. But now Windows 7 is hot, hot, hot, and who wants to be left in the dust with crufty ol' XP? It is getting pretty long in the tooth, after all.
But what to do? Windows 7 won't run well on a tiny little netbook, with its miserly 1gb of ram, its miniscule display, its subpar resolution, its slow-to-the-bone CPU, and its crappy video card, will it?
Probably not. This fact has apparently not been lost on laptop manufacturers, and so a few of them have just started shipping perfectly good ultralight notebook computers at netbook prices. For instance, I just purchased an Acer Aspire 1410-2801. It has a dual-core low-voltage 64-bit Celeron CPU and 2gb of ram. It's expandable to at least to 4gb (without taking the whole thing apart you'd have to do for many netbooks!), comes standard with the 64-bit version of Windows 7 Home Premium, and a 6-cell LI battery good for about 5 hours of use. It weighs only a tad over 3lbs, has a decently-sized 11.6" 1366x768 LED-backed display, and can play HD YouTube videos with nary a frame dropped. What more could you want for $400 shipped door-to-door?
“Isn't this just the new breed of netbook?” you ask? Well, of course it is! But the manufacturers don't call them that anymore because they don't want you to think these machines are crippled. And now netbooks aren't. Long live the netbook!
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