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psrock said:
Netbooks are like $299, right?

Some less, some more. If you want one with 3G and a contract, by the end of your two year contract you will have paid $720 more just on data charges for the netbook.

But for hardware, netbooks run from $250-$800. Most are around $300.

I think that in a year or so, I could see this ending netbooks. For what a netbook can do, this thing blows it away. If you need real computing (like development work, or photoshop), you need a laptop. A netbook is not going to cut it anyway.

For 90% of the people who a netbook will work for, an iPad will do what they want far better.