"This is a new market that is absolutely developing before our eyes," says Carol Hess-Nickels, marketing director for Mini-Note PCs.

“这绝对是一个在我们眼前的新市场”Carol Hess - Nickels, mini笔记本市场经理说。

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HP, the world's biggest PC-maker, entered this new market in April with the "Mini-Note", a small laptop weighing just over a kilogram.

全球第一的电脑生产商惠普，在四月份携一款仅仅一千克多一点的“迷你笔记本”进入这一全新市场。

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Scientists note that older people with typical Alzheimer's often have something else wrong in their brain - damage from mini-strokes, for example.

科学家发现患有典型老年痴呆症的老年病人大脑也有些其他的毛病-如轻度中风。

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The tiny machine joins Dell's Inspiron Mini 9, the Asus Eee PC 900, the HP Mini-Note 2133 and the Intel Classmate PC among the new class of machines offering cramped keyboards, dinky screens and relatively pokey processors.

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It struck us the other day as we were going over some back posts that since the launch of the ASUS Eee PC (and the numerous products that have followed, from the MSI Wind to the HP Mini-Note), to the best of our knowledge we've all yet to have any normalized, agreed-upon name for these kinds of devices.

ENGADGET: Eee PC-like ultraportables - name that product category

Here are two charts, the one we posted here on September 1 taking note of the mini-trend break, and the second from today.

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