If you have ever used a netbook, then you know that it is incredibly lightweight and small. You also have likely realized the great advantage it is to take on a road trip with the kids. With a netbook, you can entertain the kids for hours with dvd’s and internet games in places where you can get the internet. In fact, some netbooks have a TV tuner built in them and will pick up live TV. One of the primary reasons that the computer manufacturers decided to do a netbook was because people wanted a more travel friendly laptop that was smaller and less expensive. However, they wanted to still have the ability to perform certain tasks on that computer at the speed of their desktop. From all of that came the netbook. It is designed with travel and the common tasks of email, internet surfing, watching dvd’s and other multimedia applications in mind.