Netbooks Vs. Laptops
 

Yes i know the ups and downs and have read enough articles ot make my head spin. But I was thinking of getting one or the other. Being in college i find that it would be handy to have a device that can get on the web and can type. It would make my notes easier to keep and I could write my essays at any time instead of finding mysef only able to them at home.

I'm not looking for a gaming laptop.. i'd never get anything done but I do want to pick the better of the two and at a decent price. (i may or may not get one im debating and it depends on the situation im in at the time)

Anyway what are your thoughts on netbooks or laptops experences brands prices whatever you want to post up to assit in this desicion :)

The laptop I've got cost like 100 dollars more than the netbooks I've seen. You may not want gaming....but do you want a CD drive? For music, putting Microsoft Office on your computer or whatever? If so, laptop is the way to go, netbooks do not have cd drives which is why I will never get one.

Also, the keyboards are really small and cramped on those things vs. a laptop.

Also, toshibas have awesome battery life. My sony vaio kind of sucks, but not as much as my Gateway (overall-gateway had better battery life)

i have used both and it boild down to this, do you need a portable computer or do you need bare-bones internet and word pad? if you get a netbook it will be /just/ what you need internet, writing program, and usb port, nothing else, if you get a laptop you are buying a portable computer with all the fun computer-y junk you use on a tower

Also, what if down the line you change your mind?

Also, I assume you have a computer at home....a laptop would make a good back up-even a cheap one. A netbook? No. A netbook usually has less memory than a laptop....though that doesn't mean they don't have plenty.

And not all netbooks have good battery life. 3 hrs plus....I had a laptop that lasted over five hours-a gaming (technically) laptop. I've never seen a netbook last THAT long.

netbooks have a better baterylife though and with less on them they don't have the load time of a laptop

i like the small board, other than hitting the caps(which i do anyway) it's easier

I'm just going to say this: NEVER get a Dell. Period.

Go with an Asus laptop/netbook, whichever you choose. I've heard very good things about this brand.

i could not agree more, dell is shit -_-;

Gateways suck too. I got mine repaired....came back saying it was refurbished....fucked up again, called the store where I bought it...they told me to call the place that repaired it...and the place that repaired it said they don't refurbish those. Bull shit.

Mother took it to someone to get it fixed who just ran off with the thing >_<

Wow that is BULL. I've gotten screwed over before when my laptop was taken in to get it fixed, and it just got worse after the place tampered with it >.<

I know how that feels.....I've had that happened before.

So much dell hate! /has one Anybody care to elaborate on why they are so bad? /concerned ;O;

But yeah, I was gonna say get a laptop. I was thinking about a netbook for just carrying around as well, but after actually -using- one I can tell I'll be pissed at it every time I pull it out. xD

Well at one point I heard they were having the same problem at Gateway with the soldering? on the motherboard not holding together right so that with normal use? Your laptop dies and there is nothing you can do but pay for someone to fix it.

I might be getting a laptop for 350 but its used a little and has all the extras (mouse, case and like 3 or 4 other things.. lol ) but the normal price is like 500. The person just wants to sell it cause they bought a new one o.O;

Congrats, but be careful. Buying used could be a bad decision in the end. So can buying new. -stabs Best Buy-

Best buy is bad? o n o

*ish on a labtop from thar* XD

Yes. Their "Geek Squad" is the worst customer service I have ever seen. And they should inform you when you buy a protection plan...that you'll have to drive up there for everything -.- Such a waste of gas. A third to a half of the cost of the plan? I had to use that amount to get there and back twice for that shit.

And then all the lying. So much lying.

Thank goodness I have an uncle who can fix mah baby if he ever gets sick then. We don't have a car, so getting out there would be difficult. >.<

And I noticed the lying when we got the comp. Not about the comp, but about a game I'd asked about. They sent me to look. I looked for a good 20-30 minutes. They didn't stock the game; didn't even carry it. -.-

They lies I got:
We're repairing it (they replaced it which means I lost 200 dollars overall)
It'll be two weeks (More like 40 days+)
We're putting an escalate? on it so they'll get to it (absolute lie)
I drive up there AGAIN
We'll put an escalate on it AGAIN (Never knew if they did)

Then they picked out a new laptop for me that cost a hundred dollars less than the one I bought. And I lose the hundred dollar protection plan. I hate them so much.

Wow. o.o They have problems with being truthful, don't they? D:

Yeah, just a lot.