Five reasons to seriously consider buying a netbook - Ars Tec...

many netbook users are choosing to tether instead, sharing an internet connection on a smart phone rather than buying a netbook-specific data plan. Tethering is a morally gray area, as many of the phones that are being used to tether with do not explicitly allow this in their contract terms and conditions. Tethering also means you have to coordinate two devices (instead of using hardware already built into a netbook) and have to watch battery usage on both. Tethering, you'll be unsurprised to hear, can drain a phone's battery very quickly.

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