A pictorial guide to the subtle differences between small, cheap laptops
By Darren Murph 
posted March 14th 2009 8:16PM
posted March 14th 2009 8:16PM
posted March 14th 2009 8:16PM
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Oh, I didn't know 13.3" was smaller than 13".
the difference between a laptop and subnotebook is evidently .3 inches
What about black friday specials, I don't think my $400 2007 BB sony is an ultraportable.
Pretty sure my approximately 17" 10lb ECS G900 doesn't qualify as a 'just a laptop'. More like a Portable PC. God, I hate lugging it around.
Where does the EEE 1004DN go? It has an optical drive.
Ah, a flaw, as the Pandora is certainly a handheld but has a full OS. But still awesome.
Lol - love the "PC formerly known as Netbook"
This is fail. There are entire lines of ultraportables are all under 13 inches, with optical drive, video ports, etc and they are not ultra thin. For example Fujitsu P series.
Ha, My buddy is going to be pissed he spent $1400 on a "handheld" Tablet PC. (Tablet is a special OS, right?)
Nah. Just extra software on top of the "Full OS"
Not too impressive. If the difference between a MacBook and an ultraportable is 0.3 inches of display then Apple is even more magical than I thought. Also, to get there for a laptop with a 13 inch screen you follow "Is the screen larger than 13 inches?" (no), "Does it have an optical disk?" (yes), "Is the screen smaller than 13 inches?" (NO), "Does it have an optical disk?" (YES). Guess I'm missing the funny.
Hmm.. interesting..
I wonder what my early 80's laptop with an 8.5" screen and 1.4 mhz turbo mode would classify as :)
What's sad? I last used it in 2004 to type up a college term paper using word for dos.
My iMac is a Handheld!!! :P
this is funny
Jeez that 13" thang should be changed to 13,3" There isn't a company that produces 13" notebooks (I am pretty sure), always 13.3" fujitsu,lenovo x300, toshiba, etc except sony vaio Z @ 13.1".
Huh, don't all netbooks have video ports? Or does VGA no longer count as a video port?
subnotebooks are more than 2 kg??
You must be kidding.
ROFL TAFKAP reference FTW!!!
I think there is a flaw in your logic, the only necessary difference between a plain old lap top and an ultra portable it the price?
According to that, the Eee pc 701, the thing that kicked off the whole netbook craze, is not a netbook, but ultrathin (it has VGA out)!
I was just going to say the same thing. I own an actual Asus Eee 4G, the computer that literally started the whole netbook craze... yet according to this flowchart, it's an "ultrathin" because it has a VGA out port? Obviously this flowchart is a brilliant parody not to be taken seriously, but I think that at least the Eee should be an "artist formerly known as Netbook". ;-)
this is a really confusing graph...
not bad, except that by following this chart, my tablet pc is a "netbook". no way in hell. everything on this baby is high-end except the vidjacard
a netbook can't have video ports?
horseshit.
question, I got my wife an Asus n10j-A, which has a 10in. screen, no optical drive, it runs vista home premium, its less than 4.4lbs, and it has an HDMI port with a decent graphics card, but its not ultrathin? where would it fit? Am I supposed to look at the "I'm stuck chart instead?"
Kewl - now I can call my old Motion M1200 a netbook. It's like I have a whole new computer! I feel great!
If you need a flowchart to tell you that you have a COMPUTER, you're a douche.