However, at present even the cheapest of laptops will cost about $600, making it more of a richer people’s toy. Though, there are options that are less expensive, but are a little smaller in the size.

Netbooks of small or medium size, lightweight, cheap and energy efficient laptops are second best option for people looking for a reasonable with good performance. Many people don't have a total control over the actual capability of their laptop even after using it for several months. Netbooks are normally used for web browsing and e-mailing. Therefore the netbooks are the most suitable machine for serving these purposes.

Acer's Aspire One is called as a laptop, through is basically a very reasonable and dependable netbook with very good reviews. By new entries from Asus, MSI, Sylvaniaand models by Dell and Lenovo on the way, the Netbook series is getting filled, though Acer's Aspire One cost about 0 at present and that’s is why it is probably the best option available.

Though the Aspire One is not perfect, it does have very useful features and is very attractive at affordable price. The down side of these laptops is its 512 MB of RAM, which restricts its performance, and a very poor performing battery life of only about 2 hours.