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Monday, January 26, 2009 12:00 AM

Netbook Is Nothing But a Cheap PC

You know that saying –- if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck. Same goes for portable personal computers — whether you call them netbooks or laptops. Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia agrees. “Netbooks are not a new category, instead they are just cheap PCs,” he said at a dinner last night with a handful of technology journalists. “It has [an] Intel (x86) processor and runs Windows XP, and to me that is a PC.”…
Om Malik

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Tuesday, January 27, 2009 10:14 AM

Run Windows 7 on your cheap PC!

Windows 7 will run fine on 1GB RAM, unlike Vista. And, it's at least as secure as Vista, which means that it's safer than XP or any Apple OS to date.

—mgriscom Read mgriscom's other letters

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Tuesday, January 27, 2009 10:43 AM

no it's not

I have a cheap PC a state of the art laptop circa last year. It will run rings around a netbook.

—Roxie the Hound Read Roxie the Hound's other letters

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