Netbook Rating Buyer’s Guide

With the dozens and dozens of emails I get about people looking for recommendations on which netbook to buy, I thought it would be better if I could round them all up and do a “buyer’s guide” of sorts.

The guide is composed of 5 categories I believe is very relevant to consumer buying decisions — feature, design, battery life, price and value for money — each of which will be given a score between 0 to 10, 10 being the highest and zero the lowest.

Of the 5 categories, 2 are objective ratings — price and battery life — so I rated them as such:

Battery Life Rating Score Card:
less than 2.5 hours: 6/10
2.5 -5 hours: 7/10
5 – 7.5 hours: 8/10
7.5 – 10 hours: 9/10
10 hours and longer: 10/10

Price Rating Score Card:
30k and higher: 5/10
25k – 30k: 6/10
20k – 25k: 7/10
15k – 20k: 8/10
10k – 15k: 9/10
under 10k: 10/10

The feature, design and value for money are somewhat subjective but I’m looking at a way to normalize them.

Here is a draft of that rating table. Will be updating them as I move along and improve the presentation.