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Netbook Sales: Cannibalizing Notebooks or Incremental?

Anectodal: Our story is that I bought a netbook for my wife for Christmas. It was an incremental purchase, and I was attracted by the $300 price point. I would NOT have bought a notebook PC. She wanted something small and convenient for web surfing - something smaller than a notebook. I think the notebook is partly a new product category and partly cannibalizes notebooks. Good for Microsoft perhaps, but maybe a wash for chip makers and PC makers.