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Tablets Will Eclipse Netbooks, Study Says

Well, your editor sure bet on the wrong horse in this race. He's typing RCPU on a netbook right now, but Forrester says that it's the tablet, not the netbook, that will be the device of the future. Frankly, we don't understand the tablet fascination, and we're going to hang on to our netbooks until Apple pries them out of our cold, carpal-tunnel-wrecked hands...

Posted by Lee Pender on July 28, 2010


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