Take note - small is beautiful
THERE WAS a time when the only way to really be mobile with a computer was with a laptop. Then came what were termed sub-notebooks – smaller laptops which still packed a lot of power.
But with the rise of the internet, much of the computing power we need has moved to the web, hence the emergence of the netbooks – a cut-down, small laptop with as simple an operating system as possible.
The other reason netbooks became popular was simple. Linux, a free operating system for computers, was cheaper to put on to these devices than Windows, for which hefty licences have to be paid to Microsoft by the manufacturer. With a free operating system and free software available for simple tasks like web browsing, e-mail and word processing, netbooks began to take off a couple of years ago. The result has been a threat even to the normal laptop market.
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