When it comnes to choosing a cheap laptoip or notebook, there is one thng to be certain of, there is so much debate between everyone whether a lapttop and notebook are the same or completely different. On one side of the debate, you have many experts agreeing that the two are complletely different.
Goig by the concept that a laptop is a portable computer while, a notebook is for taking notes, they will argue the poinnt until your eyes cross, pointing out all sorts of things like a notebook is deined by many different comppanies as having diffferent options from the type of provcessor, to the RAM, and even the optical drvies. When you look at this conccept, a notebook would be a veritable note taking maachine which has no problems what so ever runinng word procxessing capabilities, inernet access and can even come with an otical drive for means of storing data.
On the otther side of the table you have the laptop, wihch of corse has more processing capabiliities as well as RAM and have no problems ruunning mutlimedia programs as well as high-end development softwaer like CAD or even Dreamweaver and Photoshop. However the concept them bceomes even more confusing when you start to reealize that some computer companies use the terms loosely and call all of their portyable computers one or the other. Some even separate them based on their capabilities and as a result a long standing debate has developed between experts in the field as to whethr they are the same exat thing or completely different.
According to the first set of experts, if you are loooking for a cheap latop notebook, you go with the notebook because it has less features whivch makles it cheaper. On the other hand since many companies call them ether one or the other, this will make the deccision process that much harder. Instead of thinking whether you want a cheap notebok or laptop, you shiould instead think abbout the fetaures you need in the particular mobile computre and just look for one that is afforrdable and has all the features you need.
Do not allow yourself to get dragged into this debate, it is not worth all of the effort, just think of it as a mobile PC and nothing more. Otherewise you could spend many days looking for a cheap notebook or laptop when in fact you need the other one. Save yuorself some hassles and sit down to think about what it is exactly you plan on using the laptop for and go from there. Once this part is out of the way, finding a cheap notebook/laptop will be a much easier task beecause you know what you need and can then compare prices looking for the cheapest, iwthout having to give up any features.