A few tips for identifying the most important features when buying a laptop.
Despite the emergence in the market for devices like the iPhone or the Galaxy Tab, refreshed versions of Apple and Samsung’s tablet PC that was announced at the time Microsoft, netbooks are still in force in the market.
These teams, which originated in the initiative to computerize the educational field, allow the user to perform simple tasks like web surfing, chatting or edit text documents or spreadsheets in a light equipment with a lower cost compared a more powerful laptop.
This article will detail the main features to consider when evaluating the choice of a netbook, a segment defined for notebook user requires connectivity and mobility.
Display. Netbooks generally have a size of 10 inches in display area, an agreed standard between different manufacturers. There may be smaller screens of 7 inches, a common measure in the first Eee Asus Taiwanese company three years ago.
More than 12 inches is considered a notebook, a laptop with a more powerful processor, better performance and therefore more expensive.
Keyboard. One of the first netbooks were critical was the layout and size of the keys. However, after distribution began as chaotic, due to the small area of equipment, manufacturers introduced several improvements in the input device.
However, beyond what may be smaller than the keys on a notebook or desktop computers, it is advisable keyboards at points of sale.
It should also experience that incorporates the functions of the computer touchpad area, which reduces application windows, walk through large web pages or desktop drag documents with just the index finger movement.
Computing power. In the market there are two models used in these devices: Atom N270, the first generation of processor created by Intel for netbooks. In early 2010, the company introduced a new more powerful version of the chip, called Atom N450, who lives with his predecessor among the offers of equipment from various manufacturers.
Battery. One of the most critical of all notebook is the empowerment of its power source. In the case of netbooks, the offer consists of a standard 3-cell battery that provides about 3 or 4 hours of continuous use.
However, there are laptops that come with 6-cell batteries, which double the autonomy of computer use.
Netbooks can be a useful option for those users who only surf the Web, listen to music and edit text documents or spreadsheets
Weight. On average, the netbook does not exceed the kilo and a half, by their nature to be used by users who require high mobility and easy transportation. In large part, this value is determined by the battery model, 3 or 6 cells.
The operating system. Despite being presented to the public for almost 10 years, Windows XP is still an option widely used in many of the netbooks from various manufacturers, with the last version that introduced Microsoft, Windows 7. They may also appear, to a lesser extent, Windows Vista computers.
Netbooks also tend to offer, from the factory, a small version of Linux, which allow a single session on an operating system, which allows web browsing, music, chat or video conference using Skype. Alternatively, it is possible to install Ubuntu using a memory stick, due to the absence of CD ROM on netbooks.
RAM memory. This point relates directly to the operating system will have the netbook. While this hardware configuration does not offer much flexibility when evaluating a team of these features in Windows Vista or 7 is recommended to choose a configuration of 2 GB of RAM.
For Windows XP, 1 GB of RAM is the recommended option.
Disk space. Manufacturers incorporated hard drives 120 or 160 GB capacity, with the same features that have more powerful computers. They differ to the limited capabilities of the first netbooks, featuring 4 GB of storage in an expensive media such as solid state drives.
Additional ports and slots. The USB connectors are always present in netbooks, with the widespread use memory sticks, and to compensate for the absence of a CD ROM reader. In turn, an increasingly common option on models that offer various manufacturers, the netbooks come with memory card reader SD, a standard commonly used in cameras, video or other portable devices.
Despite the improvements introduced in the manufacturers of small netbook keyboards is always wise to test this feature in person
Connectivity. As a standard configuration, the vast majority of teams provide Wi-Fi and Ethernet to connect to the Internet. Alternatively, some netbooks allow a connection to have a 3G SIM card slot. As a complement, some models may have Bluetooth to connect to cell phones or other devices or computers.
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