Netbooks and it's unwarranted overhype.

I enjoy hearing stories from users of netbooks, saying how cheap, small and conveninent they are. Which is one of the reasons why they are so popular. That and the fact that it runs on the grilled and drilled windows XP.

I'm not knocking Vista, in fact I quite like those fanciful eye candy and for those who are used the start button, the ability to search for programs is a blessing. I'm not talking about those people who have tons of applications and need the ability to search for it, I'm talking about using other peopele's computers with windows vista installed.

Sometimes, you want to run excel, a specialist app or just a particular browser and the last thing you want, is to see if they have installed it by looking at the desktop, program listing or even the control panel. Just typing the name of the required program in the start button so you can quickly check if they have that particular application installed is just great.

Anyway, I am digressing. What tickles my pickle is the fact that people buy a 17 inch laptop and then start comparing it to 8.9 inch netbook and then comment on how tiny the netbook is and how it's an amazing piece of technology.

For goodness sake, if you compared it to a 14 inch, 15 inch is pushing it, notebook computer and then comentated on how small the netbooks are , then fine because most would be travelling and typing on these notebooks. But to compare it to a 17 inch whopping notebook, is just ridiculous. Who on earth takes a 17 inch notebook to coffeeshop, airports etc!!

The worst culprits tend to be mac users with their pro versions. I'm not knocking apple products. I quite like to have one. It's those hooo ya mac preachers that spend an insane amount on their macs and don't know apples from oranges that give me the hilly billies.