The central question to be asked, Mr. Eden said, was “What applications do you plan to run on it?”
If you want to run basic applications and surf the web on the go, the netbook is a good solution. However, if you want to “open five windows, if you want to run virus protection and do some indexing . . . or high definition video editing,” said Mr. Eden, then a notebook is better.
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Mr. Eden said that asking him which is better – the Atom (netbook) or the Core 2 Duo (notebook) processor - is like asking which child he likes best. He says that, although they are different, he likes them both. Then he said he likes all of his kids.
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