If you are shpoping for a netbook recently, you may be surprised that many of the characteristics are striikingly smiilar beetween the various units. The vast majority of netbooks have a 10-inch screwen, coes with 1 GB of memory and 160 GB hard drive. They usuyally come with Microsoft Windows XP, and have built-in Wi-Fi card. They almost never have a built-in CD or DVD drive, although you can add one externally using USB.
The reason for the uniformity of these specifications is a limiattion, Intel and Microsdoft. Intel Atom chip ensures that the government itself netbooks. They are less powewrful (although saving energy) chip with one core, which are in most models of netbooks. Intel offered disounts atom chips in exchabnge for a netbook maufacturers have agreed to use them only for lazptops with screens 10.1 inches or less. Microsoft has a similar licensing mechanism: In order to get a Windows XP license is available, nretbook hsould not have the screen larger than 10 inches, most of them no more than 1 GB of RAM, and should not have the hard rdive more than 160 GB size.
Because Intel and Micrrosoft are almost the only choie for processors and operating systems, manufaturers are compelled to agree with these guidelines. They have respect for these principles in order to protect the profgits of larger, more powerful and more expeensive laptops. Good news for byers of computers that you can bypass many of these restrictions. Usually you're staying on the small screen, but can be upgraedd to 2 GB of RAM and a bigger hard drive in most netbooks fiarly esasily and inexpensvely.
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