I've never owned a netbook but for me the appeal of wanting to make my next computer a netbook when my current laptop I've been using for a few years dies is the form factor. A small 10" laptop would still be comfortable to type on but small enough and light enough to more easily take to class than a full size laptop that I have now. And like many computer user the most CPU intensive thing I do is watch Flash videos on youtube a netbook is fine. I do, however, own an SSD that is a huge performance booster. At this point adding an SSD to a netbook would add a lot to the price of a netbook but that will change in the future. So I agree with @Coswyn and his post and @Kyzgar. I think by the end of the year or so when netbooks get DDR3, SSDs, USB3, Ion graphics and these dual core Atoms they'll be a pretty usable computer for the basic tasks of a student that I'll be doing. Or as @Nitesh said, maybe Via can make something nice for us.
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I've never owned a netbook but for me the appeal of wanting to make my next computer a netbook when my current laptop I've been using for a few years dies is the form factor. A small 10" laptop would still be comfortable to type on but small enough and light enough to more easily take to class than a full size laptop that I have now.
And like many computer user the most CPU intensive thing I do is watch Flash videos on youtube a netbook is fine.
I do, however, own an SSD that is a huge performance booster. At this point adding an SSD to a netbook would add a lot to the price of a netbook but that will change in the future.
So I agree with @Coswyn and his post and @Kyzgar. I think by the end of the year or so when netbooks get DDR3, SSDs, USB3, Ion graphics and these dual core Atoms they'll be a pretty usable computer for the basic tasks of a student that I'll be doing.
Or as @Nitesh said, maybe Via can make something nice for us.