[Dark Knight]

Hello all can someone please tell me what`s the difference between notebooks and netbooks?

Searched high and low and cannot seem to find any defining information.

Thanks.

[jay Z]

same as diffrence between ice cream & ice candy, all money making buzz

[tedsacoolguy]

Actually there is no difference at all. The computer world decided to use the term "notebook" instead if "laptop" to get people away from using them on their laps and other soft surfaces. Todays computer generate more heat now and having them rest on a soft surface doesn't allow for as much ventilation.

[Hybr!d]

The term laptop is on the way out.

Notebook is the new 'buzz' word if you like.

[Dev0115]

Car, automobile..Just people changing the names around..I guess people feel cool saying "notebook"

[XP user]

I'll never call a laptop a notebook. I guess the term is for the new generation. When I was young, a notebook was a place you stored useful information and the notebook was made from trees, not plastic :p

I sometimes use the term portable pc instead of the other two terms.

I saw an interesting thing at the office supply store a couple of weeks back. It was called a docking station, it was priced at 250.00 dollars, and it lets you take your laptop and mount it on a station at your desk to give you the desktop feel. I thought it an interesting concept when viewing it, but really cannot see the benefit of it at all. lol!

[Hybr!d]

A docking station is meant to save time plugging all your bits in when you laptop is in its home location.

Basically you plug your DVD, mains adaptor, printer, broadband etc into the docking station.

The when you get in you just clip your laptop into it and you have all your non movable devices connected in an instant.

[mamab]

I thought the benefit of having a portable pc was that you COULD put it on your lap, thus making it a "laptop." I understand about the need for placing it on a hard surface to not destroy it, but changing the name's not going to make people stop placing it on their lap.

[LPH]

Actually a little history might clear things up.

The term laptop comes from the late 1980s. However, lawsuits were slapped onto manufacturers because of the burning of the lap. As the systems became lighter, the name was changed to notebooks (about 1990s). The name change in marketing also helped push sales forward.

A few years ago, Dell and some other companies were trying to distinguish their products. They reintroduced the term laptop - figuring people didn't know the history. Microsoft employees (who knew nothing about the computer industry) kept repeating the term during their presentations. Once the term was on the MS presentation slides - the term is "legally" stuck and presenters had to use the term. Eventually, ignorance won out and people kept repeating the term over and over again.

Notebooks is the proper term for systems on the market but we may see another shift. Microsoft is starting to use Mobile PC. Intel is not behind the term yet - but may rework the "Ultra Mobile PC" ....

:D

[FourBear]

When I hear notebook, I think of the paper kind before the PC kind. The use of "laptop" has just become so prevalent...who knew there was all that history!