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by digi_owl 3097 days ago
The impression i have is that first Intel freaked, as they worried that they would cannibalize the ultra-portable market.

Second Microsoft freaked, because Vista could not run on them.

End result was that we got a combo of hardware and software that was not fit for anything, along with a bunch of gray-box rebrands (particularly of a certain MSI model).