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CNET Showcase Live: Slates and Netbooks
Created: 06/25/2010
Video description: Can the iPad be stopped? Rafe talks with CNET experts Dan Ackerman and Donald Bell about the market for ultraportable computers, and what the iPad has that Netbooks never did.

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