Netbooks are a fairly new category of portable devices that emerged only a couple of years ago. All started in late 2007, when Asus launched their highly compact and portable gadget called the EEE CP 700. And things moved quickly from there on for this segment.

But, even if now netbooks make for 1/5 of the sales of every laptop on the market, many of us still don’t know exactly what a netbook really is that’s why I’m going to detail more about this subject in this article.