Users Fuzzy Over What's a Netbook

Users Fuzzy Over What’s a Netbook

Written By
Jessica Davis
Jessica Davis
Jun 24, 2009
1 minute read
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The target market for the current generation of netbooks is largely confused about how their new devices differ in functionality from traditional laptop computers. And that makes for a large set of unsatisfied customers.
That’s according to a new report from NDP Group, a market research company, that further shows that many consumers who purchased a netbook – 60 percent — think that netbooks and laptops can do the same things.
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Jessica Davis

Jessica Davis has been a professional writer since 2005. She has worked in various media outlets, writing for a bricklaying trade publication, several research companies and her favorite: a major entertainment company in Washington where…

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