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Netbooks are currently extremely popular, and were a hot gift this holiday year. But are the tiny, stripped-down pcs really the long run of client laptops? Based on the BBC, some technology experts believe that the netbook could have previously peaked—and most of what people seek out netbooks for today, they may use other devices,
Office Professional 2007, including tablets,
Genuine Windows 7 Professional, in the future.
Many contemporary netbook models run Windows XP or
Windows 7 which has forced the specifications, and price, upwards. Many,
Windows 7 Enterprise, he said, now cost at least [$550], a figure close to that for a more capable full-size laptop.
What people are looking for now, he believes, is a machine that can keep up with the demands of contemporary web users - far more than the basic e-mail and web browsing that made the first models so appealing.
"As soon as you want to do anything else you hit the same problem, it ceases to work,
Genuine Microsoft Office 2010," he said. "It does not have the power."
If you own a netbook, do you find that there truly are limits to what you can use the machine for? Are they actually suitable for what most users need a computer for?
Technology changes 'outstrip' netbooks [BBC News] (Thanks,
Office 2010 Serial Generator,
Windows 7 Starter Sale Hands on with the Ubuntu Netbook Remix, Stannous!)