Whatever happened to netbooks? Don't give me bullshit about

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>>55723875
They still exist, they just got a big bigger. 11" Atom based machines <$300 are everywhere.

>>55723875
They were a stillbirth that finally got aborted. Laptops under 12" got crippled keyboards, making the whole thing fucking dumb.

>You cannot do any productivity
What kind of productivity can you do with a smallass screen, smallass keyboard and a weakass cpu? Even basic things like browsing are a pain.

>>55724260
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Asus still do convertible ones around the 300 bux

>le portable meme
Tell me, where are you taking your netbook that you can't take a regular laptop to?

>>55723875
CPU's weren't strong enough for anything useful back then. Netbooks were browsing-only machines, and tablets/phones do that now.

I do feel like they're coming back since energy-saving CPUs finally got gud. It'd be nice to have a super small laptop with decent power to work on the go.

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>>55724260

This.

Their only market was for schools that bought them for students to use.

These netbooks were ridiculously cheap and so was their build quality, the battery and performance was terrible and so was the keyboard and screen. The costs of having to replace/repair them every year steered schools towards Apple for their iPads or Lenovo for the durable Thinkpads. Every education department I've worked with has iPads or Thinkpads deployed across the district, most having both (iPads for the younger students, Thinkpads for the older students that need to run excel and whatnot).

>>55723875
Gross hand OP.