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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
I may be too late to answer, but I bought a netbook for writing and emailing on the go. It wasn't worth it. The keyboard was cramped. I could do email just fine, but writing anything long (and for me I mean a page or two of text or editing a document) was tedious. I think if I had bought one with a full sized keyboard it would have helped. I was running windows on it so that it would be compatible with my laptops, but the machine didn't have enough of anything to really run windows/word. It was fine for an email machine but that was about it.
So my two cents is that if you do buy one, you'll want one that is large enough to make use of--and powerful enough to run whatever programs you know you'll need. I erred on the side of thinking the machine was "just enough" and while it did run windows, it was slow, locked up a lot, couldn't run more than one program at a time...the screen was small so when surfing the internet sometimes it would wrap things around funny and make screens almost unreadable...in short I hated the thing. I can type emails on my Kindle. Buy the smallest laptop you can find...and it would probably be cheaper and better all around.
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You didn't say what size your netbook was. I am guessing 10.1 or smaller.
They call different computers netbooks.
Dell calls a Latitude D430 12.1inch a netbook now but used to call it a laptop.
I am now thinking that the chromebook is too limited though I would like to get a 200 dollar NEW machine.
I can get a USED Latitude D430 12.1 inch or even a USED Latitude D630 14.1 inch, either one for less than 200 dollars on Amazon or Ebay. Only 30 day warranty at most though.
I may do that because my current netbook is not doing so well.