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Monica Chen, Taipei; Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES Asia
Wednesday 22 July 2009
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I'm still having a hard time understanding the appeal of the Atom and netbooks. I just bought a brand new Toshiba 15.6-inch notebook with 2.13GHz Core 2 Duo, 160GB hard disk, 2GB RAM, DVD burner for $379. Why buy a crippled netbook for $50-100 less?