Microsoft has been offering low cost Windows XP Home Edition licenses to PC makers selling netbooks for nearly two years. In order to qualify, a netbook needed to have a small screen, slow processor, and no more than 1GB of RAM or 160GB of hard drive space. As a result, nearly every netbook released over the past two years met…

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Asus has just launched a new low cost netbook model in Japan. Don’t expect any fancy new features. In fact, you can expect the opposite from the Asus Eee PC 1000HT. It looks almost exactly like the Asus Eee PC 1000H which was released well over a year ago, except that the Eee PC 1000HT lacks 802.11n and Bluetooth support….

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