The ASUS Netbook is the top selling netbook on the market right now. In this article, we are going to explore what makes this netbook so popular and the main reason that you should buy it instead of the others on the market.
You have probably heard of netbooks by now, but if not, let’s take a look at the differences between the traditional laptop and a netbook.
Technology advances continue to allow us to have great things in small packages. Where we once had to have a computer on the desk, we were then allowed to take it with us in the form of a laptop at about the same level of horsepower. Netbooks continue this trend of portability that laptops brought us but they offer even more portable, often referred to as “ultra-portability”. Netbooks are designed to be ultra-light so that you can take them with you virtually anywhere, just as you would with your iPod.
Then, we may ask (as we did when laptops entered the market), what are we sacrificing? What does a laptop have that a netbook does not?
This question is most easily answered by looking at the main components of each. Every computer is equipped with a few essential items that are important for speed, capacity, and the overall user experience. With technology advances, manufactures have been able to equip laptops and netbooks with essentially the same insides. Let’s take a look at these essential ingredients.
The ASUS Netbook comes with 1GB of memory and is expandable to 2GB if you would like. For any activity other than intense gaming, these specifications are easily sufficient.
The ASUS Netbook boasts a 160GB Hard Drive which is more than enough for any on-the-go data and all of your music. As a benchmark, 160GB could hold more than 35,000 songs. If you need to extend this amount (which would only be true if you store massive amounts of songs and movies), you can get an external hard drive for less than $100.
There are two primary differences between a laptop and netbook in regards to the user-experience. Each of these factors make netbooks “ultra-portable”. One, netbooks have slightly smaller screens. To offset this, when you are in one place, you can simply hook up your ASUS Netbook to one of the top LCD TVs and use this as your monitor. (Visit the page How To Connect Computer to TV to learn how to do this.) And, two, netbooks have slightly smaller keyboards. This does not take long to get used to for most people because the keyboard is relatively scaled to a natural keyboard.
While the ASUS Netbook meets and exceeds all of your needs for basic computing power, it excels and beats all of the other netbooks in one key category: battery life. Equipped with an Intel processor designed for speed, portability, and video, the ASUS blows away the competition in battery life. The ASUS exceeds 10 hours of battery life with the competitors trailing at half that time. This alone makes the ASUS Netbook worth it!
In summary, the ASUS Netbook is equipped with all of your essential computing needs. It is the absolutely the best netbook on the market because of the more than 10 hours of battery life. And, to top it all off, it is less expensive than most of the other netbooks on the market.
Find the ASUS Netbook on the Christmas Electronics page at the Christmas Store Online, where you can find all of the Best Christmas Gifts for 2009. The author, Richard Mas, is a retail specialist, technologist, and senior editor at The Christmas Store Online.