“I saw a advertising in the papers for a Netbook and it looks a lot like a laptop, are they the same thing if not then what’s the difference between a netbook and a laptop?”
Netbooks are lighter, smaller and cheaper than a regular laptop. Screen sizes ranges from 7 inches to 12 inches. Netbooks usually come with about 1GB of ram and a hard drive space is usually less than a regular laptop. Netbooks are meant for doing very basic stuff like surfing the Internet, doing email stuff, and light office applications such as spreadsheets. Don’t expect to be doing video editing or hardcore gaming on a netbook that’s not what they were made for. The best part about Netbooks are the price, at a fraction of what regular notebooks costs you can get a decent netbook for under 500 bucks.
Just about every major computer manufacturer make some type of netbook: