Netbook Is Nothing But a Cheap PC

You know that saying–if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck. Same goes for portable personal computers–whether you call them netbooks or laptops. Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia (NVDA) agrees. “Netbooks are not a new category, instead they are just cheap PCs,” he said at a dinner last night with a handful of technology journalists. “It has [an] Intel (x86) processor and runs Windows XP, and to me that is a PC.”

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  • http://blog.macb.net Mac Beach

    Genius! Sheer genius!

    I’m in the market to replace my old portable expensive PC with a new more portable cheap one. I think I’ll get a netbook!

    Oh, also, getting the Windows unencumbered ones makes them run faster, cooler, more reliable and even cheaper!

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