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<blockquote data-quote="Mattsmom277" data-source="post: 372808" data-attributes="member: 4264"><p>I bought difficult child a emachine for Christmas and he loves it. Its basic but works well. Has all kinds of USB plugs, windows, some office suite programs, etc. It does all he could want it to do, except extremely graphic gaming. Although even then he plays a online rpg game and it runs just fine. Truthfully it seems to work better than my acer laptop. </p><p>His emachine netbook was $249 (Canadian dollars) and that was 2 Christmas's ago. So probably cheaper now. I saw one here at Staples on for $189 about a month ago.</p><p>Walmart tends to keep stocked in the small netbooks. My difficult child says you quickly get used to the compact size for day to day computing. YOu can also use a usb connected mouse to make it easier for that function if you want. I know someone whose computer died and they had low funds and went with netbook. They picked up a old monitor and keyboard and mouse for under $30. They connected the netbook to the monitor and then connected the keyboard and mouse to the netbook, thus giving them the feeling of using a desktop computer to avoid the size of the netbook. Personally, I enjoy playing with difficult child's netbook.</p><p>Back to walmart, they also have a layaway policy. So if you see a great deal on a netbook, you can put down 10% and have up to 60 days to pick it up. </p><p>The difference from a laptop to a netbook is first obvious ... a netbook is tiny. It will usually have a smaller hard drive and ram than normal laptops. The ram isnt' an issue since with a smaller hard drive one doesn't usually load really intense software. My difficult child's has a dvd drive but not a dvd burner.</p><p>He notices nothing really different. He watches and downloads movies. Downloads tons of music. Uses email and plays games online. He loaded OpenOffice which is a free product downloaded from the net similar to microsoft office. He chose the programs he wanted. He picked their version of microsoft word. You can also get their version of excell etc if you wanted. The programs take up much less room than microsoft office suite. </p><p>He has a lot saved on his computer and has no problem at all with the size of his hard drive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mattsmom277, post: 372808, member: 4264"] I bought difficult child a emachine for Christmas and he loves it. Its basic but works well. Has all kinds of USB plugs, windows, some office suite programs, etc. It does all he could want it to do, except extremely graphic gaming. Although even then he plays a online rpg game and it runs just fine. Truthfully it seems to work better than my acer laptop. His emachine netbook was $249 (Canadian dollars) and that was 2 Christmas's ago. So probably cheaper now. I saw one here at Staples on for $189 about a month ago. Walmart tends to keep stocked in the small netbooks. My difficult child says you quickly get used to the compact size for day to day computing. YOu can also use a usb connected mouse to make it easier for that function if you want. I know someone whose computer died and they had low funds and went with netbook. They picked up a old monitor and keyboard and mouse for under $30. They connected the netbook to the monitor and then connected the keyboard and mouse to the netbook, thus giving them the feeling of using a desktop computer to avoid the size of the netbook. Personally, I enjoy playing with difficult child's netbook. Back to walmart, they also have a layaway policy. So if you see a great deal on a netbook, you can put down 10% and have up to 60 days to pick it up. The difference from a laptop to a netbook is first obvious ... a netbook is tiny. It will usually have a smaller hard drive and ram than normal laptops. The ram isnt' an issue since with a smaller hard drive one doesn't usually load really intense software. My difficult child's has a dvd drive but not a dvd burner. He notices nothing really different. He watches and downloads movies. Downloads tons of music. Uses email and plays games online. He loaded OpenOffice which is a free product downloaded from the net similar to microsoft office. He chose the programs he wanted. He picked their version of microsoft word. You can also get their version of excell etc if you wanted. The programs take up much less room than microsoft office suite. He has a lot saved on his computer and has no problem at all with the size of his hard drive. [/QUOTE]
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