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codinghorror.com - 10/27/2008

The Web Browser is the New Laptop

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I've been reading a lot of good things about the emerging "netbook" category of subnotebooks : The term netbook refers to a category of small to medium sized, light-weight, low-cost, energy-efficient, Internet-centric laptops, generally optimized for Web surfing and e-mailing. Like any ...

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