ARM chip vendors tout emerging category at Computex; Intel says term 'confuses'

If you still blanche at the term "netbook" for being an ungainly piece of vendor-speak, then prepare to be nauseated later this year as "smartbook" supporters start to bang that marketing drum.

What exactly is a smartbook, aside from a term drawn from the obvious blend of "smartphone" and "netbook"?

First mentioned last November in a speech by a marketing executive from hard-drive maker Western Digital, a smartbook will be a computing device similar in size or slightly smaller than today's netbook with smartphone-like features.

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