Types of notebooks.

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Have a PC on Vista.

Looking to buy a notebook. The ads show 3 different types:

1. Notebook

2. Netbook

3. emachines.

What's the difference between the three?

TIA
 
Have a PC on Vista.

Looking to buy a notebook. The ads show 3 different types:

1. Notebook

2. Netbook

3. emachines.

What's the difference between the three?

TIA
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A 'netbook' is basically, a miniaturized laptop. Generally, it has no CD/
DVD drive and a smaller than normal keyboard - also uses a 'reduced
power' CPU. emachines, AFAIK - is a computer manufacturer.
 
A Netbook also has one feature omitted by sellers, and it's not
technical!

Netbooks of past yar have been shown to be far less reliable than a
Laptop.

It's easy to assume this statistics is simply due to their usage -
highly mobile, subject to shocks, weather/abuse. But actually it's not
that alone.
It's also due to cheaper quality of Netbooks, not just their usage
modes. Anything for $300 which does so much, is bound to be of lower
quality than a laptop.
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That pretty much stands to reason, though leaving out things like an
optical drive and using a less powerful processor can also cut costs
without necessarily reducing quality. My wife's eeepc seems to be quite
robust and we've been using it heavily for over a year without any
problems - but then it runs Debian ;)
 
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