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Intel: Netbook growth is slowing; Microsoft: Nope, netbooks are tanking

Update: Microsoft has released its earnings report, and while Intel says netbook growth is slowing, the software maker says its numbers paint a different story — with netbook sales down 32 percent from a year ago during the same period. Overall, Microsoft is seeing a decline in consumer PC sales, but there’s still growth in […]

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Can’t afford your own netbook? Borrow one from the library

Netbooks are low cost portable laptops that can function as secondary computers for some folks — or primary computers for those who may not have the money to buy a more powerful machine (or the interest in spending that kind of money). But something neat happens when you make computers more affordable and more portable: […]

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Survey: Netbooks are just as popular as tablets, plenty of people don’t care at all

It seems like every other day we see a report suggesting that tablets are killing off consumer demand for netbooks, but last week ABI Research released results of survey suggesting that both product categories remain pretty popular. About 27 percent of those questioned said they were “very” or “extremely” interested in acquiring tablets, while the […]

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Canonical not ready to trade Ubuntu netbooks for tablets just yet

It seems like very few days I see an article proclaiming that netbooks are dead and tablets are holding the knife. The truth of the matter is that netbooks are still selling pretty well — low cost, low power notebook computers just not as exciting as they were a few years and bloggers and journalists […]