Welcome to the Engadget Holiday Gift Guide! The team here’s well aware of the heartbreaking difficulties of the seasonal shopping experience, and we want to help you sort through the trash and come up with the treasures this year. Below is today’s bevy of hand curated picks, and you can head back to the Gift Guide hub to see the rest of the product guides as they’re added throughout the holiday season.
The term “netbook” is such a moving target that it’s hard to tell if it’ll even be relevant at all in a year or two. But for the moment at least it’s a handy bit of shorthand for a laptop that sacrifices performance in exchange for a small form factor and cost savings. Usually. Of course, you’ve got to weigh the sacrifices when gifting one of these: if your target is a power user who can’t get anything done on that smaller screen, slightly-cramped keyboard and low-end processor, then you might want to look elsewhere, but if they’ve got an unhealthy passion for portability and things in miniature, you might just make their year.
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Engadget’s Holiday Gift Guide: Netbooks originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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