Netbooks: Everything You Want In A Notebook, But Less?

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The market, including some high-profile bloggers, got its first look at the thing and went bananas. When Asus, Taipei, Taiwan, quickly sold out of its first generation of netbooks based on Intel Corp. processors, other manufacturers saw a new market taking off and didn't want to be left out. One of technology's newest product segments was born.

And that's when complexity began to set in. The simple, popular equation that the Eee PC first embodied has shifted dramatically in a very short amount of time, about a year. The netbook pipeline now includes everything from inexpensive, but adequate, Web access devices to what might be confused as cheapened-down notebooks. The Test Center has evaluated a number of netbooks over the past year and has seen several key trends begin to emerge:

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