“A portable computer priced way lower than the competition makes
headlines with its small screen and bundled applications for
instant productivity.“Sounds like a great marketing plan for the latest generation of
Netbook and Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). But if it seems
familiar to long-time techies, it should; it’s the same plan that
worked in the early 1980s when Osborne and KayPro launched the
first portable computers (albeit ‘portable’ in those days meant
20-plus pounds)…”
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