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A UK example is ZooStorm's Fizzbook Spin netbook, with the latest version costing around £400.
But a netbook with a cellphone chip is called a smartbook, according to some companies' marketing departments.
If your aunt is interested in getting an inexpensive computer, a netbook with a built-in webcam is another option.
It's an ARM-based netbook with a 7in screen, a Linux operating system, and 1GB of Flash storage.
Q.I recently bought a netbook with Ubuntu as its operating system and would like to know if there is any simple way to defragment the drive.
The obvious drawback is that, at £700, the 3810T is roughly twice the price of a netbook with a 12in screen.
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(Companies like Acer, Dell and Hewlett-Packard already sell some Atom-based netbooks with Linux).
Operators have even started giving away netbooks with some mobile-broadband contracts.The growth, however, comes with a couple of big drawbacks for the operators.
Another instant-on operating system was Jolicloud, a development from France that likewise used bits of Linux tweaked to run on netbooks with tiny screens and limited storage.
Asustek and Acer were the only two companies still making netbooks, with everyone else who had made them (including Samsung, HP and Dell) having shifted to tablets.
In other words, avoid low-end netbooks with 2GB of memory and 32GB of storage, even if they are as cheap as the quite nice Asus VivoBook E203 (£139.98).
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