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itbusinessedge.com - 8/27/2008
Could Netbooks Be the Notebook Future?
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This week is IDF, and one of the platforms Intel is highlighting is called Netbooks, based on its Atom processor. I struggle with this concept because a Netbook feels and looks like a small notebook and the initial offerings act like notebook computers. The old saying goes if it looks like a ...

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Are netbooks the future of the notebook?
jkOnTheRun — ... That's the question that Rob Enderle is asking in his excellent analysis of the netbook.  Rob tries first to define just what a netbook is, something that all of us who deal with them try to do.  He finds the current operating system choices on netbooks to not work very well, from Linux to Vista Basic and I tend to agree with him.  But what may be the big driver for netbooks going forward are the cloud services which are proliferating at a rapid pace.  Remote computing is the perfect task for the netbook and Rob agrees with that.  He sees the netbook as ...

Tale of a Netbook
The Tao of Mac — ... readers will probably want to stop reading here, because I’m going to write that Rob Enderle is probably right when he writes that (and I quote): ...

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