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Originally Posted by ThisIsNot

These are the features that I require out of netbooks:

• Use an OS that allows for full compatibility with day-to-day programs such as iTunes, MS Office, etc. This means that I want Windows, sorry Linux but you just can't run iTunes.
• Have a 10-11.6" screen. Anything bigger and I might as well just carry around my tablet as it has a 13" screen.
• Real world battery usage of about 5 hours. This is with the screen backlight set to 50-60%, bluetooth turned off, and wi-fi turned on.
• Enough hardware to at least watch standard definition content.
• Be sturdy enough so that I can throw the netbook in a slipcase and put that in a backpack with some books.
• Have video conferencing software that actually works along with a built-in webcam that produces decent results. I hate sitting down to do a video conference only for the camera to produce grainy results or for the software the really compress the video stream so that everything is pixelated.

These are the features that I actually want:

• Be able to fully playback 1080p mpeg-2, mpeg-4, mpeg-4 AVC, and VC-1 content without issues.
• Have enough hard drive space to carry around my lossless archive of CDs (this means that it would need to have a 1TB hard drive).
• Digital optical audio output.
• HDMI video output.
• A multi-gesture trackpad that uses an LCD that contains quick-launch icons for applications such as iTunes, FireFox, MS Word, etc.
• 24 hour real world battery usage.
• Support for 4GB of RAM so that I can run AutoCAD.
• Come with an external Blu-ray ROM that matches the computer's casing.
• Fingerprint reader.

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