by John Doe111

Created on: November 10, 2009

Yea, I bet you've all been there, sitting on the airplane, waiting to depart from wherever. You have an 8 hour flight to Ireland for a business conference and you planned to sleep during most of it. Well, the plane takes off, and... you can't fall asleep. You're not even tired, you just sit their, trying to convince yourself that you're slowing drifting away into slumber. But nada, it's not working. You need some entertainment. Then you remember that you left your laptop at home, because your boss said you just need to talk to some people there, and you'll be coming back the next day. Don't you regret that? Well, even if you did decide to bring your laptop with you after all, do you really want to be lugging that thing all over the place. It probably weighs at around 10 Ibs, plus all the cables, and mouse, and bag. And when you're on the plane, you might not have much room to take out even a 14.5 " laptop, and open it up in front of you to watch some movie. Thankfully, brilliant minds of the 21st century have come up with a solution that's pretty darn simple. That solution, my friends, is called a netbook.

The netbook is absolutely perfect for trips. They weigh ~ 2 Ibs, which is FIVE TIMES less than your standard notebook. Netbooks are easier to move around, and they don't take up much space at all. You can get them as small as 8.1", and as large as 11". I'm actually typing this article on a netbook. It's great.

Even with all my praise to the netbook, I bet your thinking to yourself, "what about performance? That thing is tiny." Yea, it's true that the best netbook out there probably can't run games like Crysis on full HD settings, but I got this netbook for $280, and I even installed World of Warcraft on it, and play it regularly. It has an atom processor, which is a single core, but is faster than a regular single core processer, like the ones you find in regular laptops. It has 1 GB of RAM, which is surprisingly enough, even with all the applications running in the background. The graphics card is integrated, but has 244 MB of memory, which is decent. 250 GB hard-drive is always a plus.

I guess the only bad thing about netbooks is that it has no CD drives. That's right, no DVD or movies. BUT, with today's technology, DVDs aren't the only way to transfer movies anymore. You can download them directly to your netbook, or just get a 16GB flash drive from amazon for $40, and put like 12 movies on it. It saves space, and it's really portable.

So I think you may have already guessed what my view is on the best laptop out there for traveling. It's not a laptop, it's a netbook. Light weight, durable, and small. It's the perfect solution for any trip, may it be that 8 hour flight to Europe, or a 2 hour drive to New York (I wouldn't recommend using it while being behind the wheel, unless you are really really skilled...and even then...ehh), the netbook is a must-have.

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