After all, with low-end PCs costing just a few hundred dollars, why not buy the kids a full-fledged computer instead?

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The Vulcan Flipstart is one of those products that just gets you juiced up about gadgets, because really, what's more gadgety than a full-fledged computer that you can slide into a coat pocket?

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Nearly four decades after Microsoft was founded, it has finally delivered its first full- fledged, honest-to-God personal computer.

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Unfortunately for anyone considering this as an alternative to a kitchen computer, there's no full-fledged web browser, calendar apps, or the like, but it will at least give you weather updates, and could well be further improved by some of the promised firmware updates.

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It's perhaps the token example of how consumers at large are moving away from needing a full-fledged machine at their fingertips, and the redefining of what a "computer" is for the newest generations.

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B- Their usage pattern requires the greater power and more sophisticated programs of a full fledged computer.

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