The netbook style of laptop is hot right now. Really hot. A big reason for this is because the price for them is really cheap (even as low as $250 brand new or $299 for the Dell Inspiron Mini 9), so yes, they’re flying off the shelves as fast as manufacturers can make them.

However as a far as it would suit as a primary computer replacement, the answer for most people would be a flat-out “No.”

Even though I personally champion the netbook format, I won’t say you should use it as your primary computer.

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Dave (owner of PCMech) owns three Mac computers. He has a Mac mini, a 15-inch Macbook Pro and a Mac Pro tower. They are all good machines with the best obviously being the Mac Pro.

There was a brief period of time when he was considering getting an iMac but decided on the Pro instead – and I wholly agree with that decision because the Pro is a true tower.

The iMac is not a bad machine by any means but those “all-in-one” computers really rub me the wrong way.

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