Netbooks Are Losing Steam?

[Arkhan]

This site really should just get around to changing its name to mac.org.

The amount of macsturbation threads really need to stop.

macsturbation.

That is the best word ive heard in awhile.

anyway, my blunt 2 cents: netbooks are dumb as hell.

I'm glad the little netbook fad is dying in favor of similarly priced but way better laptops.  seeing people gingerly poking at the keys of one on a screen the size of a slice of bread makes me cringe.  You're better off busting out a nintendo DS or a PSP man.

alot of people use them at my school.  They most often carry them in a giant bag with other stuff.   If you can carry that giant ass bag around, you can carry a real laptop around.

man.

I mean I guess they're neat to putter around the internet on, take notes, or look cute while computing on....ESPECIALLY if you have a pink netbook....which is the only kind I'd ever consider. (serious!)

but when you have Joe Linux pulling out his eee PC and rubbing his pole as he talks about how he put Linux on it and it's so great to do school work on it......thats where the line is crossed.

Doing programming work on a computer that tiny is for the effin' birds.  Trying to pretend your cheap netbook is a powerhouse and marvel of modern technology makes you look stupid and annoying at the same time.

Having all that crap open on a tiny screen is worse than doing work on a 13" CRT in 800x600.

[Arkhan]

The problem with Notebooks is heat, not being able to expand or change your system easily and one of the things I've researched about them is they don't last as long as desktop computers.

I have a few NEC Laptops from 1998 that still function as if they were new.
The problem isn't the hardware, its clumsy people tossing them around like toys, eating near them, smoking, etc.

  What I've also discovered through research is that most netbook users use them at home.  So why didn't they just get a laptop or desktop?

What research?  I see about 100 netbooks a day at school.    Seems like maybe most people use em on the go.

If I buy a PC, I believe I will have to start with Linux because Windows is really getting on my nerves; I've almost had enough with Internet Exporer crashing every day,

Stop using Internet Explorer?

 viruses that appear even when you are running virus software,

Well if you run virus software, thats why you have viruses!  :roflmao:
Do you have a proper firewall set up?  If not you WILL get viruses, and the ANTI virus software is there to notice, and destroy it.   Resident scanning, etc.  doesn't prevent it from arriving, it just prevents it from staying.

Outlook Express Crashing and losing my email.  This is actually true and I'm not making it up.

Stop using Outlook Express?

I'll go to use system restore and even though it is enabled, Windows tells me that I can't restore.

Did you set up restore points?   Turning it on and not having a restore point wont accomplish anything.

I'm not excited with Windows and I'm tired of the system registry which is why I want Linux which isn't supposed to have one.

Emmm.  Stick with Windows.  Linux will probably give you more issues.