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For all my heavy duty and business related work for which I use softwares like Photoshop, AutoCAD, CorelDRAW, MS Office, Tally and other custom made business softwares, I use my Desktop PC (assembled but very high configuration specs). For normal browsing only I use my Laptop. I like to watch movies also on my Desktop's 19" LCD as I feel anything smaller than that is not justified for this purpose. Also even the best of laptops cannot offer you the sound quality of even a 2.1 sub woofer based Creative/Lansing speaker system, which I have installed on my desktop.
Now coming to difference between netbook and notebook the main differences are in -
- Processing power (though netbook's atom based processors suffice in all general environment)
- Ram (that is a major problem in netbook's limitation to max. 2GB); here the notebook wins...
- Hard disk (here the netbook's 160-250gb suffices for most general application)
- Screen Size and resolution (here the netbook looses big time and mostly the notebook's win; however for general browsing etc. and if your eye sight is good (LOL), then netbook COULD suffice)
- Keyboard and Trackpad (here also netbook's are nearly there but still lack the tactile feel of the notebook's input devices)
- Battery Life (No competition; Netbook's win by a huge margin)
- Portability (again Netbook's win big time)
- Economy (No competition here either; the Netbook wins)
Now choose what is more important to you out of the above parameters and make your decision...