Netbooks dead? Not when sales are up 264 percent

Courtesy ZDNET - Between the Lines  Mon, 11/16/2009 - 1:23pm

Can the best-selling category of the PC market really be just a fad? A junky joke? A stunt to prop up the PC market created by Intel?

Not quite. Netbooks may be panned but consumers are still buying them.



 

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