Until I saw an article which announced the Lenovo IdeaCenter Q110, I didn't even know nettops existed. After quick research, I found that the word nettop is a portmanteau (a word blended from two words) of Internet and desktop, much like the word netbook is a portmanteau of Internet and notebook.
Like netbooks, nettops are designed to be in smaller form factors and consume fewer resources than their big brothers, the desktop computers.
One of the problems with netbooks that have solid-state drives (SSD) installed is that the space on those drives is limited. It's a fact that the Windows operating system uses up most of that space. What happens when you want to use a bunch of applications with it and then find out that the space is nearly gone? A USB drive (preferably a flash drive) can save you hours of grief if you know what to put on it.
While this primarily applies to netbooks without optical drives, it can apply to any PC that where the optical drive is missing or broken. You can indeed install from CD without any optical drive of any kind.
I'm going to tell you the easiest ways I've found to watch DVD, DivX or XviD movies on a netbook. If you have a netbook (without an optical drive), this will be of much interest to you. If you have a laptop that includes an optical drive, you may only be mildly interested in the information I'm about to share with you.
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