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Nothing prevents the design of a netbook which can draw power from a USB host, similar to the way many smart phones or tablet computers do.

However, most PC, laptop or netbook devices are designed as USB host devices, providing (limited) power to and managing communications with USB peripheral devices such as flash memory sticks, digital cameras, keyboards and some-such.

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