Netbooks are the future of computing

A netbook is just that you take the internet and notebook computers, then put them together, and then the thing that you will have in your hands is called as a netbook.

In recent years the Netbooks have gained much popularity and it is due to the fact that now users are more interested in using Web-based applications instead of getting attached to computer-based software. With the advent of iPhone it has become common to having a mini-computer in your hand. The Apple’s iPhone comes with one drawback and that is that it has no keyboard. Netbooks’ have become a hot consumer-electronics product just because of its keyboards and bigger screens

The Netbooks screens could be as small as five inches or as large as 13 inches and primarily they are used for sending e-mails or to browse the Web. The weight of the devices is no more than three pounds and they rely on slimmed-down Windows XP or Linux operating systems. The cost of Netbooks is less than laptops. Usually laptops come with more software and full-size keyboards.

A humanitarian project called One Laptop per Child has give rise to the netbooks. This project was the idea given by a nonprofit group who has aimed at supplying $100 laptops for children living in the remote third-world villages. The project however encouraged competitors to bring their products to the market and then inexpensive notebook computers, including Psion’s now-discontinued netBook brand, and the Palm Foleo started arriving in the market. In 2007, Asus also started selling the popular ASUS Eee PC and Dell and Hewlett-Packard Netbook products were also introduced in the market.

Last year, netbooks began capturing the market shares of traditional laptops, which themselves have been eating up the desktop sales. Predicting the future of computer sales, it seems that the size matters a lot now, as small as the computer sixe will be, as big will be its market sales share. The popularity of Netbooks have been a surprise for a market that has once thought that its audience wanted more power in bigger packages, as now consumers are really interested in having computers that are cheap, lightweight, and easy to carry around. This industry might not have ever anticipated the arrival of netbooks coming, but now as they have arrived and are liked by the PC users, they’re not going anywhere soon.

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