Because I know several people with one. I've tried it out myself.

>Then how do you know it "works great" for surfing the web?
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>The truth is that people devour efficiency - give a mouse a cookie (wow, what a great pun!), and he'll ask for a glass of milk.
>I'll bet most people who don't own laptops and wind up purchasing a netbook, are likely to buy a real laptop in less than a year. They're better off ponying up another 200-300 bucks and getting a real laptop to begin with.