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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.04 hands-on
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>> | Sure, Ubuntu haters won't go near it, but everyone else with a netbook
>> | needs to give UNR a try because we think you won't be disappointed.
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>> http://www.tuxradar.com/content/ubuntu-netbook-remix-904-hands
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>> Netbook market? What netbook market?
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>> | Today's 'default' netbook, from a name-brand vendor, delivers
>> | quasi-desktop functionality, costs as much as that vendor's (now
>> | non-existent) lower-cost notebooks/laptops, ie in the US$500 range, and
>> | we have the tier-1 name brand vendors perpetually pushing the price
>> | further uphill, introducing pointless feature-creep to justify this
>> | price-hike.
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> I am so used to picking up the light weight EEE that I can't pick up
> a normal laptop without thinking about what a lead weight those
> things have become compared to the EEE. I even stopped treating the big
> jobbies as laptops - to me they are just 'portable desktops'.
> Portable desktops were available a long time ago but went out of
> fashion.
ARM will bring back the light machine.
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