I've Been Tasked With Netbook Purchasing

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So the school recommends Nephew The Eldest have a Netbook or Laptop of his own, and I've been asked to get him that for Christmas instead of the Flip Camcorder he asked for.

I'm thinking the Netbook is a lot closer to my original budget, but I haven't ever used one. Would one work for word-processing/basic schoolwork, or is a laptop really significantly better?

I'm doing some research, but thought I'd appeal to the collective wisdom of The Friendslist as well! :)

Poll Netbooks