Anyone who has ever experienced the nausea-inducing feeling known as Flying Laptop Syndrome—usually triggered by someone tripping over an electrical cord and knocking a notebook off a table or by good old-fashioned clumsiness—can attest to the fact that most notebook PCs don't bounce. Which means that even a minor netbook dropping incident would result in the machine looking like it had been put through some tests in the Large Hadron Collider.

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