A recent report from The NPD Group – a leading market research company reported that 60% of Netbook buyers expected Netbook and Notebook functionality to be the same.

That confusion about functionality is leading to some dissatisfaction. Only 58 percent of consumers who bought a netbook instead of a notebook said they were very satisfied with their purchase, compared to 70 percent of consumers who planned on buying a netbook from the start.

Many of these consumers would have done well to follow this chart when they were making their purchase.

The report also claims that 60% of  buyers purchased a netbook for the portability factor but 60% of buyers never took their Netbook out of the house!

Moral:
Make sure you are aware that a Netbook is a smaller and less powerful version of a laptop and think about how important mobility is to you.

Survey Detail:
Nearly 600 adults from NPD’s online panel who were identified as netbook owners completed this survey between April 27 and May 4, 2009.

See full Engadget story here.

[From GadgetMix.Com]
Microsoft has finally announced the retail and upgrade prices of Windows 7. The differences in price are much more notable when you compare them to the prices of Windows Vista. The Home Premium upgrade version has dropped $40 and the Ultimate upgrade version has dropped $40.

However, if you preorder Windows 7 upgrade, you can get it at a really low price if you are living in US, Canada, UK, Japan, France or Germany.

A recent PC Mag article indicates Microsoft will be specifically targeting Netbooks with one of it’s Windows 7 versions.  According to Microsoft the OS will restrict the machine from running more than 3 applications (manually executed) at a time.

Click here to read the article.