The Benefits of Owning A Netbook

By Matthew Kerridge

Netbooks are becoming increasingly popular and everyone from office workers to sales people to even parents and grandparents are getting one. There are a lot of great reasons why you should buy a netbook. Here are some of the best reasons:

First of all, the price of a netbook is pretty fair with respect to what you are paying for, and the size of a netbook is perfect. You can expect to spend usually under $400 for a totally portable computer that will fit in nicely with your current computer station setup. Remember, too, that if you have to replace it, the cost will be a lot less than if you had to replace your desktop computer. Another good thing about it is you can just put it into your backpack, briefcase or handbag and continue on to wherever it is you have to go. You will not have to worry about any power concerns because, on a full charge, you will be able to use it during a meeting and off and on throughout the rest of the day.

It will not be your main computer. For the most part, people are getting netbooks as their secondary computers. They are using them to augment their laptops, as far as computing portably goes. It doesn't matter if you are on the go with your primary laptop, at the office on a personal computer, or on a netbook, the wave of new applications just needs you to authenticate yourself.

The docking capabilities of netbooks are an added bonus. They can, by standard USB and Ethernet connectivity, be connected to peripherals quickly and easily. At your home, you can achieve a secondary system by docking. Bringing your netbook to the office means you are able to transform it into as good a system as it is on the go. When and if you should need them, an external drive, mouse and keyboard are all ready and waiting. Another thing you could do is to share printers, scanners and disk resources by networking to your main computer.

When you think about what netbooks are really used for, you will understand how they cannot be underpowered. Chatting on the go, sending e-mails, enjoying multimedia and browsing the net are basically what they are used for mainly. There is not a need for them to have full power because they are not used for any work that is serious; the main computer is for that work.

It is just a matter of time until built-in connectivity space on a netbook gets up and going and, when this happens, it will be a big deal. The potential is definitely there, and, as long as it is priced and promoted fairly, it will happen. The ability to use the applications on netbooks that are network-based will be possible, and, it will not matter whether you are riding in a car or at a hotspot cafe that has WiFi.

Owning a netbook is such a good choice for someone that doesn't want to be burdened with carrying a heavy laptop all over the place. The common tasks of word processing, video, Internet, excel and e-mail can be handled most efficiently by a netbook. So, if these are the only tasks you use a computer for, spending $1,000 or more on a laptop rather than $400 or less on a netbook just wouldn't make any sense.

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