There’s been a lot of specualation over the last year or two about how low cost, mini-laptops or “netbooks” would affect the computer industry. But one unintended casualty of the surge in netbook popularity was the owner of the netbooks.com web domain. Once upon a time, “netbooks” may have seemed like a reasonable name for a company that offers online…

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[/caption] Intel has purchased the Netbook.com domain. The page currently redirects users to Intel’s page describing the Intel Atom CPU. The page features a bit of news, some reviews, and information about the Atom processor.  Just a few short months ago, there was no accepted term for low cost, low power subnotebooks like the Asus Eee PC and HP Mini-Note….

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