A newer alternative to expensive laptops and notebooks are growing Netbook market since early 2008 due to their low price. Consumers are now able to have computers that can surf the Internet for a fraction of the cost to acquire slimmed.

The netbook philosophy is that Internet applications such as presentations, spreadsheets, use word processing, and storage, such as hard drives have only recently increased up to 250 GB of 160 GB. Since theseactually larger hard drives for netbooks, and some are even justified, with solid-state drives to come fast and small, but usually not more than 32 GB. Netbooks are not powerhouse machines, but they are portals for Internet-based applications and products.