1. Size matters:
Laptops are too big (people do still carry laptops to work and travel) to carry, smart phones are too small to write, to read and to browse internet for long hours. Netbooks fit between laptops and smartphones. Netbook screen is much bigger than iPad, although it weighs slightly more than iPad.
2. Apps matter:
iPhone Os might have thousands of applications. Windows have tens of thousands of softwares, which I would like to call them “apps” too. Can iOS match the number of free and useful apps available on windows OS? To give examples, Windows live writer, OpenOffice, Baraha.
3. Video:
I am not a huge fan of watching videos on internet. Watching movies is best done on blueray player with a large flat LED/LCD screen with 5.1 Dolby surround sound. I record all the programmes I need from TV (Sky+) and watch them at my own time. One can watch all videos from the internet and online TV without any hiccough on netbook. What you need decent WiFi or USB tethering if your mobile has 3G. I do watch BBC iPlayer, YouTube and various other videos on my netbook using Firefox or Chrome.
4. e-Reader:
Ctrl+Alt+right arrow, the screen tilted from landscape to portrait mode. My netbook is a fantastic eBook reader now. Lower the brightness to minimum, yes, you are ready to lie down and read a novel. I open ‘MobiPocket reader’, another lovely free app for Windows.
5. Brand power:
If brand matters the most, pour all your hard earned money to a big fat company so that shareholders can sit back and enjoy your money.
6. Newspapers:
I have stopped reading newspapers long ago. Sorry, I still do read newspapers, but all of them are online. Most of the newspaper sites are well formed for internet browsing, and they look good on windows. My every morning starts with reading “Vijaya Karnataka”, a Kannada daily. The browsing and reading experience is simply superb on netbook. Can I read Kannada fonts on iPad? Does PDF files open as smoothly as they open on windows (knowing the fact that Apple does not like Flash, I am raising this doubt).
7. Travel tool:
Netbooks are slightly heavier them iPad. You can carry spare battery if you want. You can have universal charger if you need. Any day, netbook is more productive while travelling. If you write regularly, QWERTY keyboard of netbook (at the moment, QWERTY keyboard is still better than virtual keyboards, but things will change soon!) comes handy.
8. Memory matters:
160 GB hard drive with 1GHz RAM has costed me just over £150. iPad would cost you fortune (the best iPad comes with only 32GB hard drive, which costs me £500 in the UK, more than a good Windows laptop) . If you want more space, connect 1TB external hard drive to your netbook. Can you do that to iPad?
9. Bluetooth:
It costs £1, yes, £1. Your netbooks is ready for blue tooth experience, if there is no inbuilt one.
10. Browsing Experience:
The best browsing experience comes from Firefox and Chrome. Netbook can have both. iPad still does not have both. If anyone wants a portable unit for purely browsing experience, netbooks make sense, not iPad.
11. Online Music:
You can’t beat netbooks. You can have Realplayer, windows media player, and many other free players, which play virtually every type of on
line music and radio stations. iPad just cannot match the sheer volume of it. I play Kannadaaudio.com, kannada kasturi, raaga.com, esnips.com, etc on my netbook while working on other things. Netbooks does not slow down a bit.
12. Games (Yawn):
I never played any games on computer, seriously! I don’t want to.
13. Office:
I have open office, which is free software and has completely replaced my Microsoft Office. I write, edit and store on my netbook.
14. To show off:
Yes, there is iPad, iPod, iPhone…
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