CMUThought Community Thought

I have seen more ads for netbooks in the past few weeks as students are getting to head back to school. Everyone from cable companies to wireless providers are now offering these great little computing devices to lure new customers. The attraction to these newer devices is that they allow you to get online easily with all the functionality of a laptop without taking up the space. At first I was not sure how these new devices would fit into the mobile platform since most smartphones and iphones allow you to get on the internet. Now that I have seen them up close they make sense in that they offer faster computing power and full keyboard to make surfing the web and staying in touch much easier.