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Flashpacking24/02/2009
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Netbooks violate all the laws of the computer hardware business. Traditionally, development trickles down from the high end to the mass market. PC makers target early adopters with new, ultrapowerful features. Years later, those innovations spread to lower-end models.
But Jepsen’s design trickled up. In the process of creating a laptop to satisfy the needs of poor people, she revealed something about traditional PC users. They didn’t want more out of a laptop—they wanted less.
„The Netbook Effect: How Cheap Little Laptops Hit the Big Time.
Sure netbooks are so popular also because of the many Flashpackers using them…
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