Netbook Is Nothing But a Cheap PC

As posted by Om Malik in his GigaOM site, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang sums up his take on the definition of netbooks with "if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck then it must be a duck."

So whether you call them netbooks or laptops, they are still portable PCs - cheap PCs, in fact. For as long as they have an Intel x86 and can run Win XP, to him, it is still a PC. Which is rightfully so from Nvidia's point of view, since its Ion platform combines low cost but powerful CPUs like Intel's Atom with a GPU and then some.

But then Nvidia's viewpoint does not settle the issue of non-Intel based (sub)netbooks - you know, the $99 PDA-like models. They do not have Intel x86 processors and neither can they run Win XP. So do we still consider them ducks? :)