Netbooks are all the rage these days, and while they’re usually cheap, you find some that are on the other end of the spectrum like Dell’s Adamo and Apple’s MacBook Air – portables that are in many ways more like netbooks than notebooks, but cost a lot more money. In the middle of the road though is the lineup of traditional notebooks and laptops that we all know and love, and all of the features we’ve come to expect from them.
But if you’re looking to buy a netbook, does that mean you have to compromise on all of the features you want? Does that mean you have to give up all of your horespower in exchange for an overblown Web browser? Not necessarily: Cisco Cheng, writing or PC Mag, has an excellent roundup of notebook performance versus netbook performance, and a great lineup of what features you can expect to get in a netbook for the price.
For example, you don’t be doing any high-end gaming on any netbook –or most notebooks for that matter– but there are some surprising results. Cisco tested ripping audio, transcoding video, and resizing high resolution images – all pretty system intensive tasks. He tested an array of netbooks, including the Acer Aspire One, the Dell Studio 15, the Lenovo Ideapad Y650, and more. Head over to see the results!