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Light and Cheap, Netbooks Are Poised to Reshape PC Industry (New York Times)

Light and Cheap, Netbooks Are Poised to Reshape PC Industry (New York Times)

Posted Apr 5, 2009 9:57 UTC (Sun) by Los__D (guest, #15263)
In reply to: Light and Cheap, Netbooks Are Poised to Reshape PC Industry (New York Times) by drag
Parent article: Light and Cheap, Netbooks Are Poised to Reshape PC Industry (New York Times)

I think you got the money stream a bit backwards regarding the DVD players.

The manufacturer usually gets money from the software vendors for installing some crappy shareware version of DVD players, antivirus and other junk that nobody wants (since there's better free-as-in-beer alternatives).


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