Internet is the world for most of us. If you want to be connected with the world, then you have to maintain laptop computers or notebooks.

Laptop computers are usually costly and more powerful, where as the netbooks are mainly meant for internet connectivity.

The netbooks will be cheap compared with the laptop computers.They are light and operating systems like  linux can only be run. Windows Vista is not suitable for them.

The hardware of the netbook is simple since it is aimed at running simple web based applications. The desktop equivalent of the netbook is known as Nettop.

You can get the netbook at cheaper rates by purchasing second hand devices.