One month in and I’m absolutely not missing my netbook
It’s been about a month since I purchased my Macbook Pro, and despite a rather bumpy road in the switch to OSX, I’m not missing the MSI Wind with WinXP at all. Not even a little bit. There’s something about having desktop power in a 13″ device that totally justifies the two pounds of extra weight that my Macbook has on the Wind.
Granted, netbooks aren’t knockovers either. The Wind handled pretty much everything I threw at it, with the exception of iTunes for Windows — but that can be sluggish even on my desktop. I wrote a lot of articles for JAMM on that machine, and it had a 160GB HDD just like my current machine. That being said, I can’t help but feel that netbooks are in the situation that WinMo and UMPC’s are in — they’re stuffing the ideas of a big-screen OS into a smaller package. It was good to have Windows on the netbook and retain access to all of my usual PC apps, but without some sort of killer feature like a slide-out 13″ screen (which would add to the cost), I can’t see myself ever going back to something that small again. Websites fit on the 10″ screen, but a lot of web apps like Google Reader, and even native apps like Live Writer, just felt like they were being smushed onto a smaller screen.
So what the heck is this post all about? You know, it’s basically just me checking up on myself out loud. I don’t hate netbooks, and they definitely still have a market as long as they don’t cost too much (*cough*, Sony, *cough*), but I’ve learned my limits in the land of laptops. I’ve got to have at least a 13″ screen to process information and to enjoy web surfing with a desktop browser. I think it’s gotten to the point where I’ll refer friends to ultra-portable laptops instead of netbooks. How about you folks?
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