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Originally Posted by Anke Wehner
I thought it was netbooks that had no CD drive, while notebooks had one?
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Originally Posted by devilsadvocate
That's correct.
There's probably a difference depending on where the speaker lives but at least here in the States:
Notebook = Laptop, and
Netbook < Notebook in terms of size.
The name "netbook" came about because it was thought that, with their lighter weight and lower power, they would primarily be used to surf the 'Net. After personally seeing people with gargantuan 19" laptops doing nothing more than Facebook and email I can see where they would get that impression.
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It's a little fuzzier than that. Generally, a true netbook has a different screen resolution (more scrolling), less memory and a netbook processor (ie, Atom). Many of them run XP or a stripped down Vista / Win7. There are some extremely small laptop/notebook computers with full or HD resolution screens, more memory and a more powerful (though still CULV) processor. They don't have optical drives, but they aren't true netbooks either. I'm typing this on one right now - a Dell Inspiron 11z.
I wanted the smallest laptop I could find that was not a netbook, and this fit the bill. With the battery upgrade, it gets up to 6 hours on a charge (in reality, not just on paper). I've owned a lot of computers over the years, and this one is by far my favorite.