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Old 05-01-2010, 10:28 AM   #44
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Originally Posted by phenomshel View Post
If MS can design and build something that looks like Courier, with similar apps as shown on those demos, and with a full O/S that is powerful enough to run "traditional" Windows apps I'd be all over it.
Actually ASUS and MSI have both designed that creature.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/18628..._netbooks.html

Its just a matter of time (months) before one of them shows up for sale.

They're a natural for the higher-education market; if only a consortium of Universities would simply sit down and talk to those guys they could get an optimized version out the door in weeks.

For all we know that is why MS folded Courier; if anybody, *they* would know if dual screen netbook tablets are coming.
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