May/June 2009
Light, but Not Lightweights
Netbooks are more than just cheap laptops.
By Simson Garfinkel
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| Credit: The Heads of State |
For the cost of one night's stay in a New York hotel you can now buy a laptop that weighs 3.2 pounds, runs for more than seven hours with an extended battery, and is equally usable with Windows XP and the open-source Linux operating system. Pundits deride these "netbooks," saying they are good for little more than Web browsing and light editing. But I think these little machines are going to turn the personal-computer industry upside down.
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