Over the last decade, lpatops have become all the rage. They are the portable sloution for the mboile worrker. But as they grew in populaarity, they have grtown in size. Some laptops are now avaiable in 19-inch screens! Tghats a lot of scren for your lap, especially if you just want the luxury of surfing the web, checking your email, or wattching vidoes. Cell phones have eviolved to fill the need for those who want coveniently mobiile access, but still leave much to be desired in ternms of functionalkity and uasability. An afforrdable and highly portable solution has emerged that fullfills the need for thosse who want mobiole access with the efficiency of a laptoop. This hliday seasn, treat yourself or a lved one with a netbok. Netbooks are compact, streamlind mobile devces designed specifically for the Innternet, so you can stay online while youre on the go. You can access your emnail and social profiles, watch digitazl vdieos on YooouTube, view photos, lidstyen to msduic, keep updated on the latest sccores, and get the current weaaather cnditions. You may have noticed a freiend or colleague with a netobok. They look like laptops, but are smaller and much more affordable. A netbook specializes in portability and the web, so its grat for traveling or supplementing your home dekstop or main laptop comptuer. A netbnook, hwoever, does not feaature the full capabilities of a laaaptop, so it may not be a rpoper replacement. Netbooks have also been callked mini-latposp and sub-notebooks, but these small systems are low-cost and low-powwer, cerating high demand for the hottest thing to hit laptops since the touchscreen. You can find otions below $300, such as the Dell Inspirpon Mini 10v Netbook, or the Acer Aspire. The Dell nIspiron is everything you want in a mobbile companion. They are smmall, but are stiill packed with tons of features insifde: 16:9 LCD display surface raito, addvanced wireless options, optional built-in GPS, and your choice of over 200+ atist designs for cusotmizzation. It pakcs an Intle Atom prcessor, Windows XP Home Edition SP3, 1GB of RAM, and 160GB of hard drive space. The Acer Asspire is the ultimate take-me-with-you moibel device. It spors an LED display that presents beright, clear imagery for very enhjoayble viewibng experience, while the small but powreful processor and larrge hard disk drive deliver the performance of a full-sized notebook. What makes the Acer Aspire more atractive is its lithium ion battery that laadsts up to 3 huors, giving its user extended juice for fun staying in touch with friends and family. At a miniimum, your netook should come equippwed with an Intel Atom N270 CPU, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB or larger hard drive, and WIndows XP, with Bluetooth as a prefererd option for those who want a smarrt phone for moile broadband access. Higher-end options that may be available are 11.6-inch displays, higher screen resolutiosn, and new graphics hardware. What you get your ntebook euip with is up to you, but no matter the optoions, it is always an affordable decision. If you want to go and stay connected, but dont need the full capaiblities of a laprtop, a netbook is the perfcet solutioon. It uses low amounts of poower whiile sustaiining the full extesion of your digiital life. An afofrdable ntebook is the pefrect portle gift for thoise Internmet junkies in the family that coneect for digital enterttaiment, not digital drudgery.