laptop or notebook? wots the diffrence?

lillykins27

hi all, i wana buy my other half a laptop or notebook for xmas/birthday but i am confused as to what the difference is apart from the price?anyone help

-TangleFoot-

Does this help?

lillykins27

lol nope. :huh:

shandypants5

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

Does this help?

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

-TangleFoot-

How about this then?

pstones578

lillykins27 wrote: »

hi all, i wana buy my other half a laptop or notebook for xmas/birthday but i am confused as to what the difference is apart from the price?anyone help

There's no real difference.

squidykins

Main difference's size and what they are capable of. Netbooks are great if you want to to be highly portable, light weight making them easy to put in a handbag etc. However, unlike the Laptop a netbook normally struggles to do more than three or 4 things at once. So if you want to surf the net or type a letter have a netbook. If you want to use several applications such as internet, microsoft office, itunes at once. Then I would suggest a laptop. Go for a lightweight laptop if size is a problem. Hope this helps.

khiller1988

My honest opinion the extra capability a laptop has is wotth the extra money, however it depends what it is going to be used for! notebooks usually have less memory and don't cope well with a lot of aplications or doing more thn one thing at a time, although this does depend on how much money you are spending on one! If you simply need one to browse the internet and for basic use then most notebooks would surfice, but if you want it to be quicker or to be able to more such as editing photos, streaming video, you find a laptop of more use, again depending on your budget.
hope this helps!:o

-TangleFoot-

khiller1988 wrote: »

...notebooks usually have less memory...

A laptop is a notebook. A netbook is a small, cheap notebook. Got that?

pstones578

squidykins wrote: »

Main difference's size and what they are capable of. Netbooks are great if you want to to be highly portable, light weight making them easy to put in a handbag etc. However, unlike the Laptop a netbook normally struggles to do more than three or 4 things at once. So if you want to surf the net or type a letter have a netbook. If you want to use several applications such as internet, microsoft office, itunes at once. Then I would suggest a laptop. Go for a lightweight laptop if size is a problem. Hope this helps.

The question was not about netbooks it was about notebooks.

dm4140b

I have owned both previously. I upgraded my notebook to a laptop, because the notebook was stuggling. But them I am the type of person who has several things open at once... iTunes, YouTube etc...

If all you need it for is typing, then get a notebook (glorified typewriter imo)