Famed electronics guru Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal has posted up a 5 minute video giving his opinion on the netbook genre of portable PCs. The video is only brief so doesn't go into a hell of a lot of detail about his impressions of the netbooks he tested. These netbooks were the Eee PC 1000H, MSI Wind U100, Dell Inspiron Mini 9 and Acer Aspire One.
His overriding opinion is still of the bent that Netbooks are the middle ground between full blown notebooks and smart phones. While this has some truth to it, I really think netbooks are slowly stepping into the space where they can replace notebooks and even desktops as the sole computer required for personal and business computing.
I've been a huge computing enthusiast (read geek) ever since my parents bought me my first 486 with MS-Dos and Windows 3.1 when I was a little tike. I've always had the biggest baddest desktops to play the latest games and power through my OS. However, very early 2008 I was sitting in my computer room, and just realised how tethered I was with my desktop, not to mention the airplane engine noise coming from under my desk. Friends of mine had realised this and switched to notebooks, but quickly found that they had to jack-in to an AC Plug as their batteries would die constantly from the drain of their Dual Core processors.
That's when I switched to an Eee PC 701, which I've since sold, as my sole PC. I now run a 24% overclocked (using Bios 1.09) MSI Wind U100 which does everything I want to do on a PC, bar running 3d graphical games. I can run Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Office '07, Google Chrome, Firefox, Thunderbird and iTunes all simultaneously with no problematic slow-downs at all. For gaming I've got a Wii... that I stole from my girlfriend.
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