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[Tavycal]

i believe they just stop calling them laptops and started calling them notebooks.

[gotmilk]

or, Laptop/Notebook vs Netbooks

ref: TavyCal "calling them laptops as notebooks"
and,
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For notebook computers, see Laptop.

Slowing down the Netbook train
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10288911-1.html

Netbooks are mini-notebooks with screens between 9 and 11 inches, that have lower-power processors, and fewer features, but very attractive price points.

CULV-based notebooks are ultrathin notebooks. They come with a more traditional 12- or 13-inch screen, but are also very low-power, so they have great battery life. Starting at $600 to $1,000, they'll occupy the price range just a step above Netbooks, which run between $200 and $500.

... this fall.

That's when the new line of notebooks powered by consumer ultra-low voltage (CULV) chips will start appearing in force.

They'll be sitting right next to the trendiest offering in portable computing, Netbooks.

Netbooks have come to be viewed as the best way to get cheap, portable computing, but CULV notebooks could change that.