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Originally Posted by Tuna
Whilst netbooks are increasingly able to run applications that previously only ran on high end desktops, no-one in the industry is keen to see the premium price of laptops and desktop pcs eroded. To that end, netbooks will remain constrained by industry agreements. Screen size and resolution, memory and graphics processors are going to ensure that whilst you can run high end applications, you're not really going to be able to run more than one at a time and the experience will be somewhat limited. There will be a netbook edition of Win 7 that will reinforce the difference between the cheaper devices and more expensive laptops.
At present, it's also worth noticing that the industry agreed definition of a netbook actually puts it at a significantly lower resolution than a kindle DX. How Pixel Qi's screens will fit into the natural separation between products has yet to be seen.
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Cheap laptops start at $400 though. my brother got a 15.4 inch, Dual Core, 160 gb hd, 3 gigs of ram for 400. I got mine, 15.4 inch, dual core, 4 gigs of ram, zooming vid card, and metal body, for 555.
net books will be cheap small computers, but there are cheap larger laptops that work just as fine. Netbooks try to keep the weight down. the sub 5lb notebooks are cheap ussually, and insanely fast.