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Netbooks are the small-yet-scrappy cousins to full-fledged notebooks.
The netbook would be part of the "ZX" series, which was apparently originally supposed to be a line of full-fledged notebooks.
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But there are others, including what Intel calls MIDs, for mobile Internet devices, which will be positioned between a smartphone and a full-fledged notebook.
The $900 Series77's color screen, which is 7.7 inches from corner to corner, may seem awfully small when compared with full-fledged notebook computers costing only a few hundred dollars more, but if you compare it with a Palm or a Pocket PC handheld, that is another matter.
Clever, but flat-panels with keyboards may end up not much cheaper than full-fledged notebook PCs.
That's more than the base price for some full-fledged notebook PCs, most of which will connect to the Internet or to a local area network wirelessly.
Here's one for the "Why would I buy a netbook when I can get a full-fledged notebook for the same price?" crowd.
Consider this machine if you're looking for more than a netbook but not quite a full-fledged notebook (see more coverage here).
The new breed of computing devices may not be as powerful as a full-fledged notebook computer, but their allure rests in the high degree of customization they promise.
Though several entries do take stylistic cues from the Apple MacBook Air's teardrop form factor, what is more striking with Ultrabooks is how well the specs compare with full-fledged notebook PCs, just as the MacBook Air compares favorably with the MacBook Pro.
It appears that later this year, we'll start to see a proliferation of ultraportable notebooks that bridge the gap between netbooks and full-fledged standard laptops as "first-tier notebook vendors" like Dell and HP start pushing out systems with Intel's CULV (consumer ultra low voltage) chipsets – basically low-wattage Core 2 Solo CPUs.
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