subject: Making Sense of Mobile phones with free laptops [print this page] A netbook is much easier to carry around and usually has a much longer battery life, making it perfect for portable community and much less of a chore to carry with you than a normal laptop. However, netbooks are always slower than laptops and come with a much smaller screen and no CD drive, so if you want a full multimedia system rather than a computer just for browsing the web, a netbook probably isn't your best choice!
