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Story: Don't fear the enterprise netbook

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More useful for work than play

The irony here is that having had my Asus Eee 1000 for a few months now, I am finding that it's actually more useful for work than entertainment.

Obviously, netbooks need to be low-spec compared to traditional notebooks so that they can be cheaper, smaller and lighter, however a lot of the things that you want to do with your notebook for fun (and I am not talking one-handed surfing) like watching DVDs and gaming just aren't possible with a netbook,

Aside from the fact that there obviously isn't a DVD drive, I have downloaded movies from iTunes onto my Eee and it crawls even on greediest power-setting. Not tried gaming but can't imagine that is going to be a better experience. Which means that the Eee is really better suited to word processing and writing articles but then netbooks were also going to be a winner with journalists.

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