Seeing that gaming may be the most demanding application you'll be running, and storage space would be your greatest limitation, lets start with these questions:
1) What is the most demanding game you intend to play?
2) How much storage will you need, and will you be using this storage device intensively?
I.e. constant reformatting, constant data exchange between external drive and the notebook, anything that may require a lot of reads and writes to your storage device.
additionally,
3) what is your budget?
4) Portability or performance?
5) does it have to be 10" (usually 1024x600)?
In other words, can it be an 8.9" with 1024x600 or a 12-13" with 1280x800.
All these questions are essential in figuring out if a netbook or a notebook is right for you.
I would personally recommend the following:
1) Only focus on screen sizes that offer the highest resolution for the size of the notebook. I.e 8.9" 1024x600 or 12" 1280x800, instead of 10" 1024x600.
2) If your play games less demanding than games like CS 1.6 and WC3, then an 8.9" netbook would be the way to go. Otherwise, a 12-13" notebook with a dedicated VGA would be the way to go.
3) With regard to storage, its just a question of either:
A) SSD = fast and saves powerr, but wears out with each read/write and you'll have limited storage.
B) HDD = slow and less power friendly, but lasts much longer and can be found with higher capacities.
Of course, you could choose to upgrade these storage devices after purchasing. e.g. a larger and faster SSD.
I don't recommend notebooks below 12", because they become way too expensive relative to the performance they offer. I also don't recommend netbooks above 8.9", because they become too bulky relative to the performance they offer
8.9" seems to be a sweetspot for very portable and cheap (6-cell) netbooks that last 5-8 hours, while 13" seems like a sweetspot where you can get very portable notebooks with much better gaming performance than an onboard intel GPU, otherwise the next step worth while would be 15" 1680x1050.
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