When the first Asus Eee PC hit the streets in 2007, nobody called it a netbook. The term didn’t really pick up steam until 2008 after Intel and some PC makers started using it to describe products that had previously been known as mini-notes, or just cheap tiny laptops. Over the years, the definitions have sort of changed, and we’ve…

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When I started writing about netbooks nearly 2 years ago, the category was fairly easy to define. Netbooks were small, cheap computers. It doesn’t really matter whether you call them netbooks, mini-laptops or something else. What distinguishes these little guys from the vast majority of computers is size and price. It’s not like you couldn’t find a $400 laptop a…

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Best Buy will begin selling the MSI Wind netbook on its website and in stores within the next few weeks. The retailer also sells the Eee PC 900. So it shouldn’t be too big a surprise that the company decided to add a netbook information page to its web site. When you select the “computers” drop down menu on the…

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