Netbooks Are Little Notebooks, and Linux on Netbooks Rocks
This newfangled netbook phenomenon has brought with it a bit of confusion, which is understandable since it is so new. The EeePC 701 launched the modern netbook craze, a tiny little low-powered thing with a 7" screen, 512MB RAM, WiFi, and 4BG of storage. It ran a stripped-down Linux, and at two pounds and $399, it quickly won many hearts.
But it seems that vendors didn't really have a good vision of what these little machines could do and marketed them as Internet clients, rather than little notebooks that could do almost everything their big siblings could do. Which was, and still is, a big mistake, a mistake shaped by the paranoid, restrictive proprietary software world and a lack of understanding what customers want.
In the tail-wagging-the-dog world of Windows and PCs, everything is a big fat pain, and you're always forced to settle for less. But not pay less. You can't just buy a desktop computer or a notebook, you have to buy a Windows computer whether you want to or not, unless you are clueful to alternatives and know where to find them. You cannot easily comparison shop. There is small chance of getting competitive bids. It is rare to get a notebook built to your specs, and Microsoft dictates specs to netbook vendors. (Hello DOJ and EU, anyone paying attention?
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