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Thursday, 6 January 2011

The End of an Era

Posted on 08:02 by hony
Last night, the beginning of the end of the laptop officially began.

Sure the iPad has been around...but with nearly 30 tablets debuting at CES, and with Android 3.0 nearing rollout, and with Microsoft announcing a tablet-friendly version of Windows 7...one has to really start to ask: why would you buy a $600 laptop when you could get a tablet for the same price that does the same stuff...better?


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