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Analysts predict that Apple could sell 28 million iPads in 2011--leading a tablet revolution that threatens to make netbooks extinct. Apple - Netbook - tablet - IPad - Laptop […]

The term "disruptive," a common buzzword in tech journalism, is typically used to describe something that jars people out of existing ways of doing things, and provides them with both new ways to do the old things and new things to do. Weather-beaten as the expression might be, it fits when talking about two products that took personal computing by […]

# google Even with tablets ruling the IFA show last week , Google still thinks the future is with netbooks—well, for Chrome OS anyway. In an interview with TechRadar , a Google product manager confirmed they are prioritizing netbooks at the moment. More » […]

bsk_cw writes "According to Computerworld's Serdar Yegulalp, there has been a lot of talk about whether the iPad will take the place of the netbook — or, in fact, whether it will eat into the market share for more mainstream desktop and laptop computers. But, he continues, the iPad has a long way to go before it becomes a netbook killer — if only b […]

It started with netbooks--those cheap little compact laptops that were once the greatest thing since sliced bread: In the months leading up to the iPad's launch, the growth of sales of netbooks hit a wall (see chart at right). […]