Acer makes great netbooks and in my research were the best (that was a few years ago though and technology changes fast). I would definitely highly recommend an Acer Aspire.
As for the decision between a netbook and a laptop. It all depends on what you need it for. If you need something that is capable of running games or you need to do a lot of work on (e.g. in excel with large amounts of data, etc.), and need to have a lot of programs open all at once. Then a laptop is what you want.
If you just want something to browse the internet on, type up the occasional word document, and do a little work on it. Then a netbook is fine.
I LOVED my Acer Aspire netbook, but I was using it too much like a laptop and wore the poor thing out within a few years. I bought a laptop to replace it after realizing that I was looking more for laptop capabilities. However, I did LOVE my Acer netbook. |