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Subject: $160 netbook
From: tmetro-blu-5a1Jt6qxUNc at public.gmane.org (Tom Metro)
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:30:31 -0500
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jay-R5TnC2l8y5lBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org wrote:
> But the general populace will be looking for heavy web use witch
> these days means firefox and flash.

Right. The Engadget review noted it had problems with Flash.

> I spent a bit more than twice that on my mini with 1gig ram, dual 1.6
> atom, and 20 gigs of flash space 3 months ago.

Dual CPU? I didn't know they had such a thing in this class of machine, 
or that the Atom CPU was designed for that.

Which model did you get and how do you like it?

  -Tom

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Tom Metro
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