What's the difference between a netbook and a laptop?

1. Appearance

First of all, in terms of appearance, although netbooks and ordinary notebooks look similar, their screen sizes can be somewhat different. Netbooks are mostly 7-inch, 10.2-inch screens, while ordinary notebooks are essentially 10.2 inches above. In addition, the netbook more emphasis on portability, the shape of most small and frivolous.

2, Configuration and performance

Second, in terms of configuration and performance, netbooks are basically Intel Atom processors, emphasizing low power consumption and long battery endurance, performance to meet basic internet requirements, while ordinary laptops have more robust multimedia performance. In addition, the netbook more emphasis on wireless Internet access, hard disk size is not as common as the notebook.

3. Use

Next again from the use of, netbooks mainly to the Internet, can support online dating, surfing the internet, listening to music, looking at photos, watching streaming media, instant chat, email, basic network games and so on. Ordinary laptops can install sophisticated software, download, store, play CD/DVD, video conferencing, open, edit large files, multitask, and experience richer games that need to be installed.

Netbooks are more portable and smaller in size than laptops. But in the performance above does not compare with the notebook! Netbooks are mainly for office, simple access to the Internet, as well as women, but also want to buy a notebook but do not want to spend so much money people ready! Notebook is now the mainstream. Internet, office, games. The computer has the function to have. The words of the netbook are less entertaining! Today's laptops are available in wireless Internet access as well as wired Internet. Wireless is now mainly in the 3G mainly!3g is currently 3 companies. Telecommunications, mobile, Unicom. 3 of the words Unicom should be relatively stable! Hurry up. Price specific you can go to 3 companies have to consult the business Hall. Because there are so many options. There are monthly, Baonin, according to the flow count, by the hour. These are also in the province and outside the province roaming!

Netbook Intel's description of "Netbook" is: "The netbook is the use of Intel Atom (mobile) processor wireless internet equipment, with the Internet, email and instant messaging (IM) and other functions, and can achieve smooth streaming media and music functions." "There is also a partial use of the Granville Nano (Linglong) processor netbook.

The netbook is 7-10 inches in size. Weight under 1.5 kg, mostly in 1.0--1.2 kg or so. Most of the keyboard is not ergonomic full-size keyboard, only a few of the newly launched 10-inch netbook, equipped with full-sized keyboard, which is one of its shortcomings: the use of adults will have a certain period of adaptation, and primary and secondary school students to use it more smoothly.

The term "netbook" was coined by Intel at the Taiwan Computex Fair last week, before it had a Chinese name and was called "Netbook". Market positioning: One is the need for a second or even the third laptop computer business people; second, young people, students and other groups need to surf the Internet, easy to learn and apply; There are also a third group of people who are special professionals, such as journalists, geological explorers and other people who often need to travel, and even the housewife who likes to surf the internet, is also " Easy PC "target crowd; four is the fashion clan, likes traveling, likes the novelty thing.

Intel also has a similar position with the "netbook". "Netbooks" apply to people who want to have a second or even a third computing device, as well as students or first-time Internet users, the company told reporters.

At the same time, Intel believes that the "netbook" is not used in the same way as a traditional notebook computer: Unlike laptops (or PCs), where content can be created and edited, "netbooks" are mainly "consumer" content, can support online dating, surfing the web, listening to music, looking at photos, watching streaming media, instant chatting, e-mail, basic online games, and so on, while laptops (or PCs) can install sophisticated software, download, store, play CD/DVD, video conferencing, open, edit large files, multitask, and experience a richer set of games to install.

In short, "netbook" is an incomplete notebook computer, "Internet" is the core application, Wi-Fi broadband is the core function. However, it should be noted that the domestic Wi-Fi broadband access environment is not perfect, if you do not have Wi-Fi services around, "netbook" also do nothing.

It is also because Wi-Fi broadband maturity constraints "netbook", so Asus launched the "Easy PC" first stop in the wireless network developed the United States market, while the "Easy PC" in the Chinese market is always the speed of "slow beat" the reason.

The difference between netbooks and UMPC

Many people confuse netbooks with UMPC, and netbooks differ significantly from smaller UMPC (ultra portable personal mobile devices) and mid (handheld mobile devices). Compared with the mainstream notebook computer, netbook size small, low price, the function is not as complete as the mainstream notebook computer; UMPC is also the concept proposed by Intel, the official thought only to meet the "7-inch or smaller display," "Built-in Touch Board", "minimum resolution of 800x480" and many other conditions, can be called UMPC. In the current market situation, UMPC size generally in between 5.6-7 inches, many have a rotating screen or touch screen functions, the price is much higher than the netbook. Mid's size is smaller than the UMPC and is more suitable for your pockets. There is no denying that netbooks have found the best balance between portability and price/performance.

Notably, netbooks are shaking the dominance of Microsoft's operating system, and Microsoft's Windows operating system is still too expensive for PC makers calling for the cheapest netbook. Jenny Lai, an analyst at CLSA, LTD, predicts that installing Linux on a single computer will only take 5 dollars, while XP is about 40-50 dollars and Vista will be 100 dollars.

Currently, about 30% of the netbooks sold on the market use Linux operating systems. At home, we are pleased to hear that Intel has launched a new Linux netbook with the winning software and Great Wall computer. There is no denying that, in many features, Linux and netbooks have a common character. With more enterprises to join in, the future of the netbook will be functional features, cost-effective aspects of a breakthrough, become a mobile era of popular products.

Laptop Killer on alert

Behind the netbook's "glamorous": battery caches quick scrap hidden dangers

Battery and processor Obviously "insufficient capacity"; Wi-Fi easy to cause a third party intrusion

Today's netbooks are moving in a more practical and inexpensive direction. However, although the netbook has many advantages in the propaganda of the manufacturer, there are some drawbacks.

High Battery Endurance

General netbook manufacturers will choose 3-core micro-batteries (mainstream notebook computers are generally used 6-cell or even 9-cell batteries), this battery endurance is widely promoted by manufacturers for 2-4 hours, but often in the use of a year will suddenly shorten to about 1 hours, eventually evolved into almost impossible to disengage from the external power supply.

A notebook industry related Personage said, from the net Book Two thousand or three thousand yuan mainstream price to look, a battery's price cost request controls within 300 yuan. In fact, the market's regular notebook batteries will be six hundred or seven hundred yuan or even thousands of dollars, which forced some companies to compress the cost of the battery, it is easy to use security risks.

"Shrink" CPU difficult to deal with large programs

Netbooks use Intel's "Ling" or Granville's "dragon" processor, technically sacrificing a large number of functions, thereby reducing power consumption, prolong the use of time, but the ability to operate only now the mainstream dual-core mobile processor performance of 1/3. If the netbook run too many programs, or start games, anti-virus software, etc. will occupy a lot of system resources program. such as Norton and other anti-virus software for the system resources occupy very large, coupled with the processor's low computational capacity, anti-virus is very easy to cause the system unusually slow or panic.

System security hidden trouble outstanding

"Wireless access capabilities such as Wi-Fi for netbooks allow intruders to migrate data to unauthorized third-party systems, and users are often not even aware of the dangers that are going to occur," said Christopher Siabala, founder and president of security software maker network intercept. "In addition, some new netbooks with Bluetooth features, if the user does not turn off the Bluetooth function by default, another person holding a netbook is likely to use Bluetooth transmission mode intrusion." If the user's vigilance is not high accidentally clicked "Access", will be violated, some virus authors will use these methods to revolt.