Comments on: Would you rather have a super smartphone or a new Netbook?

Nvidia's Tegra processor may hit Netbooks and smartphones. Is this the start of a new trend?

[Staszek]

I would rather have a smartphone and a full size laptop. If I am dragging something around a 13-15 inch laptop isnt much bigger then the netbook in the fact that I still have to carry it and it doesnt fit in my pocket.

So if I am going to carry something thats not fitting in my pocket it will be a regular laptop.

Most people (once windows was placed on them) dont buy netbooks for their portability, its because they are very cheap and and a nice laptop replacement for people who dont do more then just email and websurf.

[joshdeboer]

"If I am dragging something around a 13-15 inch laptop isnt much bigger then the netbook in the fact that I still have to carry it and it doesnt fit in my pocket." - well said!

[joshdeboer]

Phone for me too!

[sotoa]

super smartphone please!

the apple iphone seems like a better choice. a huge negative is the cost of service and being tied to it for one or 2 years. with a netbook you can hop on other peoples networks and not be tied to a contract. isnt the actual per month service on an iphone expensive. I would choose no contract any day.

[PhineasBoggs]

I use my iPhone as a touch because the sound and phonology doesn't serve my needs. I use my phone tethered and over a speaker phone in my car, and I've reverted to an old Motorola V330 over the iPhone. So I carry both -- the iPhone for traveling WiFi, and the Motorola for speaking.

The iPhone (as a Touch) is a nifty gadget and I love it. But the keyboard is too small for my frequent use and thus is too labor-intensive for me.

I'd like something about half the size of my Acer Aspire or twice the size of the phones. I just need a decent qwerty keyboard. And good sound would optimal.

Clearly, for me, the iPhone doesn't do it. I'd love to try the other smart phones to see if one would do better for me . . . maybe when I win the lottery!

[Donfuy]

I dunno about most of you, but I'm pretty happy with my netbook.

It's small, fast and does everything one needs for a portable pc (I dunno why you guys keep saying this thing only works for e-mails - my 1st gen Eee PC many times worked as my principal pc and it worked quite well for multi-tasking)

Haha, you guys wanna really work on a smartphone (word, presentations,excel and stuff like that on a smartphone...yeah), haha, good luck with that.

[mathteacher909]

I don't have a smartphone. I have a Nokia N800 MIT and a netbook computer.

I can't see using my MIT or a smartphone for any of my professional teaching tasks (powerpoint presentations, excel spreadsheets, creating paper handouts for class, etc.) so at the very least I have to have a real computer. My Asus 1000HD is working fine for me, only weighs 3 pounds, gets about 4 hours of battery life, and is large enough to work on for hours at a time.

That being said, the MIT works fine for surfing the internet while on the couch or anywhere I can get a WiFi internet connection (about 90% of the places I find myself in), or listening to music in a coffee shop.

I am not willing to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars a year to make sure I have internet access 100% of the time instead of 85-90% of the time. So I'm happy with my combination of traditional cell phone (Metro PCS, $40 per month for unlimited local, long distance, and texting), MIT, and netbook computer and I don't see myself changing that anytime soon.