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R.I.P. Netbook: Mobile Computing Evolves, But MacBook Air Success Proves There’s Life In The Clamshell Notebook Yet

PCWorld’s Tony Bradley observes that the netbook helped catalyze the move to mobile computing, and the exodus from the traditional office desk to a new “compute anywhere” model. Actually that transition was already well underway in the Mac universe long before netbooks came on the scene, but netbooks facilitated catchup on the Windows side. However, Bradley suggests that the netbook has more or less run […]