If you wanted to buy a netbook a year ago, it was very easy. He simply bought the Asus Eee PC 701, which is the only device on the market at this time, and thus the pioneer of all the netbooks that populate the department store shelves today. The Eee PC was revolutionary, because small, lightweight “notebooks” had always been more expensive than large, and thus reserved to buyers with thick money bags. With the Eee PC changed the basic. For less than 300 euros, the buyer got a notebook that was usable for most applications, with the optical drive simply missing an important feature. The too small-sized display with a 7-inch diagonal proved to be a drawback because many websites were not displayed completely, but were cut off at the sides, which required the usual vertical scrolling. The recharge time of about two hours was good, if not outstanding, and the processor, an aged Celeron, certainly no future-proof solution. As a mass storage, a solid-state disk with four GB was used, which was large and fast enough for the netbook equipped with Linux.
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One can safely assume that the great success of the Eee PC 701 had caught the competition on the wrong foot, because for many months, the Asus netbook had the market entirely to itself. But then new netbooks appeared, and with them the new processor for ultramobile platforms called "Atom". This CPU is extremely economical in the power consumption and thus almost predestined for use in netbooks. The Atom processor is now standard. The Atom N270 has a processor core and a clock rate of 1.6 GHz. The device is equipped with a VIA-C7, AMD-Geode or Intel-Celeron-M-CPU. The Atom N270 processor consumes little power. But it looks different in the chipset, which is installed on the mainboard. This is usually a 945GC, which consumes more power than the processor itself, which leads to shorter battery times. Better suited is the Poulsbo chipset from Intel, which is used in connection with an even more energy-saving Atom version, however is much more expensive than the 945er and higher prices for the netbook. These processors with speeds between 1.33 And 1.86 GHz are designated Z520, Z530 and Z540. The Z530 is currently used, for example, in the new 12-inch Netbook Inspiron Mini 12 from Dell. Our recommendation: Take a netbook with Atom processor. Whether it is a device with a cheaper N270 and probably shorter battery life or a more expensive and power-saving one with Z520, Z530 or Z540, you should make it dependent on your purse.
Actually, the small, insensitive SSD (solid state drive) is made for the netbook use. The flash-based hard drives consume less power, they heat up much less, and they are completely impervious to impacts due to the lack of moving parts. Unfortunately, SSDs also have some serious disadvantages. The flash-based disks are still much more expensive than conventional hard disks (HDDs), they have lower capacities, they only allow a limited number of writes depending on the quality, and they are sometimes much slower. For comparison, a 64-GB SSD in the 2.5 "format from Patriot costs about 200 euros. For half the money you get a conventional 2.5" disk of Seagate, WD or Fujitsu with 500 GB capacity For each GBD costs the SSD about 3.12 euro, the HDD against it only 20 cents. No wonder then that netbook manufacturers usually rely on SSDs with small capacities between 4 and 16 GB or just on the classic hard disk in the 1.8 "or 2.5" format. If you use your netbook only for surfing and in order to process its mails, this comes with an SSD from eight GB capacity. However, if you want to take the netbook on vacation and save on the vacation photos, you get to this capacity very, very fast to the limits. Ideally would be without a doubt a fast SSD with large capacity and high-quality memory cells, which have a longer service life than the normal fall to be expected 3-5 years. Realistically, however, these disks are still much too expensive at the moment to enable them to be used in an inexpensive device, such as a netbook. Our recommendation: Take a netbook with 8 or 16 GB capacity SSD, if you want to use the device only for surfing and simple office tasks or the netbook should work also in robust use error-free. If you want to install numerous programs, manage photos and perhaps your music collection and attach great importance to a system that is as fast as possible, then there is currently no way around a classic hard drive.
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