"Until we get to the point where everything is online" They're netbooks. They're supposed to be used for online stuff. If you want to run Word, I would recomme

"Until we get to the point where everything is online" They're netbooks. They're supposed to be used for online stuff. If you want to run Word, I would recommend a mini-laptop. And anyway, you would be surprised at how many people basically use the web for everything these days. I would say an even smaller device is actually the true "netbook" - what is sold today are, IMO, a variety of sub-notebooks, and are marketed as such. That's fine, but they're not "netbooks"!