Small is beautiful

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Dec 14, 2008 12:57 PM EDT
The Economist
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Steve Jobs says Apple does not know how to make a $500 computer “that’s not a piece of junk”. Yet this article was written on a small computer that costs less than that—and barely a quarter of the price of the Apple iMac that sits on the desk beside it. Small, cheap mini-notebooks like this, or “netbooks” as they have come to be called, are not as fast or as capable as a big computer like an iMac, and in performance terms they trail behind most laptops. But they are certainly not junk, and for some people they may be the best computers money can buy.

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Nice article techiem2 5 1,239 Dec 15, 2008 6:12 PM

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