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/Just as we're a href="http://gizmodo.com/5042814/why-i-hate-netbooks"coming/a to a
href="http://gizmodo.com/5042815/why-i-love-netbooks"grips/a with the entire netbook phenomenon,
low end manufacturer Coby comes up with something even lamer. "[Midget PCs] are smaller than a
netbook but not THAT small." Midget PCs. Lovely./p pWhat's makes a midget PC different than a
netbook? If you listen to Coby's marketing director, they're a whole new category of computer meant
for leaner times. As far as I can tell though, the PoqetMate-7 and PoqetMate-9 emare/em just
netbooks, albeit extremely cheap ones. Coby hasn't offered many specs to ponder, but the models,
primarily differentiated by screen size (7in and 9in) will run Linux atop a Chinese Longsoon
processor. Past that, I wouldn't expect much more than a Wi-Fi adapter and a few ports, bringing
the PoqetMate in line with low-end netbooks like the Asus EeePC 701./p pCoby plans to bring these
to discount retailers, including traditionally computer-averse stores like Kroger and Rite-Aid, by
March, making the PoqetMate-7 the first $100 computer to be widely available in the US. [a
href="http://arkansas.indymedia.org/newswire/display/23048/index.php"AKIndi/a via a
href="http://thegadgetsite.blogspot.com/2008/12/coby-to-release-9995-netbook.html"TheGadgetSite/]a/p
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