"The people who buy them are not replacing their notebooks with them, " says IDC analyst Crawford Del Prete.

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"Someone like Sun would have more exposure than anyone else, " says Crawford Del Prete, an analyst with IDC.

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"It speaks to the focus of the keynote, " said Crawford Del Prete, an analyst with tech tracker IDC.

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Crawford Del Prete, a senior vice president at tech research firm IDC, says the Intel-Negroponte fight signals that the market for low-cost computers is heating up.

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"Apple, you could argue, sets the standard for a lot of aspects of PC design, quite frankly, " says Crawford Del Prete, vice president of research at tech market tracker IDC.

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"It would certainly be classic Apple in terms of 'We're going to take care of the entire experience from soup to nuts, '" says Crawford Del Prete, senior vice president at tech-market researcher IDC.

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"The fact you can pack more technology into different consumer electronics devices, on an unrelenting and steady pace defined by Moore's Law, means there will always be another gee-whiz gadget that will intoxicate, " says IDC analyst Crawford Del Prete.

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