On 5/3/2010 3:54 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 05/02/2010 10:39 PM, Mark Allums wrote:On 5/2/2010 9:35 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
Size. A little almost-handheld netbook just isn't as physically in danger of cracking in your knapsack as a 15" or 17" laptop.I have no idea what you even mean by that. Totally non-sequitur.It's harder to crack a small plywood board than it is to crack a large plywood board. Likewise, an ultra-thin 10" netbook should be less prone to cracking than an ultra-thin 15" notebook. That's just my theory, though.
Most netbooks (at least the ones I have seen) are relatively flimsy. They are not "almost-handheld". They are much larger than that.I was listing advantages of netbooks over notebooks and laptops, but size is not one of them, _at_least_for_me_. They are too small. The screens are too small for my eyesight, the keyboards are too small for my hands, and so on.
YMMV, I suppose. MAA