All these people saying Netbooks are more functional, are they really? I have used 3 or 4 different Netbooks, I have lasted 10 mins maximum before I've closed the thing in a huff. Slow, buggy, crash prone things that have small keyboards, low resolution screens and fragile bodies. I'm not going to comment on iPads because I've never used one, I know that is going to have to be a pretty bad device to be worst than your average netbook.

I'm not all that convinced by netbooks either to be honest.
At what point does a laptop become to big to take somewhere that it is fine to take a netbook to??

Ive had a Toshiba NB series netbook for about 14 months now, and find it brilliant. Certainly serves the purpose of the IPAD - and more imo. So long as you get one with more than 1gb ram they are fine.

Just get a Macbook or an iPhone and save yourself the hassle.
Macbooks are great and the iPhones are great too, this just has no place in dare i say normal peoples lives.

People who can afford to buy one or two are the only people who will use them, and even then it is only to add to their "image" at work.

i don't like the itunes software that you need to use to add stuff on