To buy or to wait? That must be the perennial question of every computer user. Each year, even each month the computers get faster and faster, their hard drives bigger and the amount of memory rises constantly.

So it is not surprising that the buyers of netbooks encounter the same dilemma. Every geek would love to have a new toy every now and then, but the knowledge of characteristics of computer markets makes it rational to wait yet another month in order to get something better for less than what one should pay now.

At the moment latest netbooks have specs of laptops or even desktops that are only a few years old. Just about any netbook can cope with office suites or digital photos. They even have reasonable hard disk space.

So why should one wait for the next release? Just to have the latest gadget that is bound to be oldfashioned after a few months?

I would recommend you to buy a netbook now, if you need it now. If you just would like to have a new toy, but there is no real need for it, you might just as well wait for a few months. After all, every geek should have quite a collection of usable hardware still somewhere. Why not spend a few evenings while building a nice lightweight Linux system? It would be a nice exercise before jumping to the netbook wagon.