Does anyone else miss netbooks? I had pic related and it was pretty much the perfect balance between portability and specs for the time.
The old X series yeah.
>>53152201
I had one as an intern in some govt office, it was so shit I rather brought in my own laptop every day.
>>53152201
I still use my little eeepc1005P for my d2d tasks in uni and on the run.
Cost me 300€ in 2010 and never let me down.
>>53152201
I've got a little six-year-old Toshiba netbook I still use.
It's pretty much completely busted by now though.
I've got an IdeaPad S10 I've been using for the last year, it just got retired last week. I'll be pulling it out here and there for when its successor's not enough though
We need modern netbooks, fuck this tablet bullshit
>>53152949
>We need modern netbooks, fuck this tablet bullshit
Yeah. I'd gladly pay a bit more to get a well-made netbook with good Linux support. With modern processors (ARM?) and battery tech we should be able to get ridiculously long battery lives too.
>>53153067
I'd kill for a 10" netbook with 1280x800 screen and quad core MIPS64 CPU
>>53152201
they still exist though.
However I'm sure your specific flavour of nostalgic netbook doesn't.
anything with an Atom Z3735* or a Celeron these days can be classified as a netbook, regadless of the screen size.
my little sister had an HP 2000 series (CQ6x derivative) that had an AMD E-300 APU. it was horrible. had to bump it to 8GB of RAM to get it to do anything decently. and even then, it was less powerful than my X120e with an E-350 because of the 300MHz speed difference.
>>53152201
I can't live with a 1024x600 screen, so no.
>>53153200
I had a laptop with Celeron N2840.
It was a fucking nightmare, it couldn't even properly play 1080p movies from youtube on Firefox. Somehow only Internet Explorer could play them.
>>53153200
>anything with an Atom Z3735* or a Celeron these days can be classified as a netbook, regadless of the screen size.
netbook |ˈnetbo͝ok|
noun
a small laptop computer designed primarily for accessing Internet-based applications.
There is no real reason a netbook could not have a 1080 or above screen resolution, decent CPU and good battery life. It's just there is no demand now. They killed it off themselves by having shit specs.
http://www.gearbest.com/tablet-pcs/pp_280534.html + the keyboard dock = netbook
>>53152201
the only thing that buggs me is the cooling vent placement. Open the laptop and look for yourself, the fan pushes hot air into a wall... While cool mine has decent performance, but when it gets hot it drops drastically.
>>53153239
Wouldn't be a netbook anymore, what you just described is called 'ultrabook' and costs a lot of money.
Besides there is for example the Toshiba Chromebook 2 and Mediamarkt just released their own brand that offers a 2 gb ram - celeron - 1080p laptop.
>>53152201
Microsoft killed netbooks. The manufacturers weren't choosing to make them all with shit specs, Microsoft had a limit on how powerful a computer could be for it to qualify for Windows Starter Edition, if the computer was too powerful it could not be shipped with Starter Edition
>>53152201
No?
They were rubbish. The only compelling features (weight and battery life) are now filled by the ultrabook space. Except ultrabooks don't have abysmal performance.
>>53153239
http://www.mediamarkt.nl/nl/product/_peaq-pnb-c1011-i0n1-1408665.html
these are netbooks nowadays.
I think the netbook market is getting swallowed by smartphones.
>>53153258
You mean got swallowed by tablets
>>53152201
netbooks didn't go anywhere
the manufacturers just slapped touchscreens on and quadrupled the price
>>53153291
It's not a netbook if it's just a slate.
Manufacturers saw dollar signs and got greedy so overpriced them for their shitty specs and slapped the netbook monika on them. Microsoft did no favors by imposing a shitty compliance for Windows Starter Edition and that ridiculous x600 res. Surface is overpriced MS moneygrubbing. Every other manu's tablet with a keyboard attached sucks donkey balls. The whole idea of the netbook was to have a cheap and portable laptop that did basic stuff. They can still do that but they don't want to sell to poorfags as there is not enough profit in it.
>>53153473
Selling to poorfags sucks. They are the most likely to have complaints because $300 is a large sum of money for them. They expect the world for nothing.
Fuck selling to poor people. Upper middle class is where you want to be.
>>53153219
You were prob. using the shitty ass Flash player. Use HTML 5 player or pop the URL into VLC and it'll play fine.
>>53153575
I've heard netbooks are literal loss leaders. Much like consoles, they lose money on each sale in order to control more of the overall market. To them, apparently it's still worth it.
And your average cheap-o 11.6" netbook cost about $180 these days. $130 if you buy refurb.
>>53153575
poor people are a fucking nightmare.
They ask for the most expensive stuff, get angry over the price, then settle for a knock-off of a cheaper alternative and then just keep complaining it doesn't work like the expensive item they wanted first.
They are called chromebooks now.
Same price range and still as shitty.
Install linux on them and they become as useful as an xp machine.
>>53153630
I wouldn't really count 11.6" as netbook category
>>53153219
>>53153200
>using windows on netbooks
Why?
>>53153675
Try and find a Linux distro that supports all the hardware in netbooks with Atom chips.
You'll end up with some USB wifi dongle, 1 second battery life and no way to control screen brightness.
>>53153652
Good luck with that. The rest of the world disagrees. 10" netbooks were too cramped to get anything done on anyway.
>>53153684
And 1024x600 sucked. At least 11.6" netbooks have the ever-present 1366x768, at a decent DPI for once.
>>53153683
That was 2009 dude
Ubuntu, or Xubuntu supports 99% of all the hardware including the stuff that windows doesn't
>>53153700
Nope, not for cheap chinky netbooks.
Asus for example released 'the perfect' netbook, X205TA. It can't run Linux because of the Atom CPU.
Or the Toshiba Chromebook 2, also doesn't support Linux without crouton. (technically it already runs Linux but you get what I'm saying).
Currently posting with a Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro, I wouldn't call it a netbook but it's fucking great
>>53152201
>tfw toshiba nb200 limited to 2gb of ram
>just a bit too weak, but otherwise good netbook
Should I get one of those 12.5" latitudes/thinkpads? Limited specs are okay if the tradeoff is long battery life, one thing the nb200 lacks.
>>53153684
Everyone's got opinions, at the 11.6" point it's not really worth it as my laptops's already 12.1". I've found 10" to be an optimum netbook size, and I know I'm not the only one.
>>53153714
Maybe those HP Streams with Celerons would be better? I don't know, I don't really fuck with Linux much. (In b4 some fag who only remembers mid-90's Celerons comes in and posts anime reaction image.)
>>53153695
>At least 11.6" netbooks have the ever-present 1366x768, at a decent DPI for once.
Yeah I'm sure an extra 18ppi makes a hell of a difference
>>53153797
It does when you're watching 720p video.
The Toshiba Satellite Radius series are basically netbooks and mine has been great for all the stuff I've needed it to do. Plus, they're insanely cheap
>>53153808
I'm sorry, I didn't realize we were talking about tablets
>>53153837
Netbooks are really just overgrown tablets anyway. Just look at the glut of 2-in-1 convertables coming out lately.
>>53153858
Except for the part where you can actually work on a netbook and their BIOSes don't make it a pain to use anything but Windows
>>53153824
I'm allergic to Toshiba laptops after their "Vista ready" turds in the mid-2000's.
>>53153882
>where you can actually work on a netbook
You really aren't this delusional right?
>>53153907
Just because you're going to have a hard time running AutoCAD doesn't mean it's only good for shitposting.
>>53153960
Have you ever even fucking tried running AutoCAD on an Atom? Please, just stop.
>>53152201
I use an HP slatebook x2... It's a 10 inch tablet with keyboard dock, trackpad and USB ports.
It's a damned netbook basically. So no I don't really miss them...I use one every day.
>>53153978
Of course I haven't you retard. I was saying that just because they can't be used for computationally intensive workloads doesn't make them only good for shitposting.
>>53152201
I still use my Toshiba nb305 sometimes but the Intel Atom processor can't handle any modern browser now
>>53154045
Then what are they good for?
>>53154095
SSH
>>53154114
I can SSH on my laptop.
>>53154095
Web browsing.
Watching videos.
Light text editing.
>>53154147
Watching video is much better done on a tablet. Web browsing and text editing are better done on a laptop or desktop.
>>53154126
Congrats, you want a medal or something?
>>53154179
>Watching video is much better done on a tablet.
Sure, but the tablet is shit for the other stuff.
>Web browsing and text editing are better done on a laptop or desktop
I'm not going to lug my desktop everywhere.
Netbooks were the smallest and lightest device that offered a real keyboard. Which for many people made them the most convenient portable device they could actually work on.
Netbooks still exist - they've just taken different forms. I'd consider the Asus T100A to be a prime example of a modern netbook, with the differences being that the screen is detachable (really nice bonus over a standard netbook), it has rather paltry I/O (only a single full-sized USB 3.0 port and a micro USB 2.0 port on the tablet itself), and it actually has a decent amount of computing horsepower. The main issue that plagued netbooks endlessly was their utter lack of performance, which forced users to employ very stripped back software or simply wait a really long time for things to complete. With all the advances in processor miniaturization, the market has diversified a lot and small computers take many different forms now.
>>53152201
They were utter shit. Resolution far too low and stupidly slow hardware. Add to that the shitty build quality and it's no wonder they are dead.
>>53154254
>thinking those tiny manlet keyboards are a real keyboard
I would much rather bring my tablet and my bluetooth Thinkpad keyboard than use netbook trash.
> Buy Dell Inspiron 11 3000 because you can actually upgrade it
> Still can't do shit outside web browsing, despite having 8GB of RAM and an SSD
> Has Pentium N3700
> No one wants to buy it due to the CPU alone
> Total buyer's remorse
>>53154282
And I'd rather carry my netbook than my laptop, let alone a fucking tablet and keyboard. It's like you're trying to get the stupidest and bulkiest setup you can
pic related but i had the nb305. selected because of the superior keyboard (fuck chiclets) and because it still ran XP at the time which I needed for my work's vpn
>>53154316
>3 lb netbook
vs
>2.6 lb ultrabook
>1 lb tablet plus 1 lb keyboard
>>53154328
such lightweight products didn't exist in 2010. pull your head out of your ass
>>53154282
>thinking those tiny manlet keyboards are a real keyboard
They're good enough for most stuff.
>tablet and bluetooth Thinkpad keyboard
I bet that's REALLY convenient to use on a train.
>>53152644
>implying that ThinkPad X-series are netbooks
>>53154340
>public transportation
>being such a wagecuck that your boss makes you work on the train instead of being able to relax by reading a book or something
>>53154301
You got a shit processor, dunno what to tell you. It has the same single threaded rating as a bay trail celeron. Should've done some research DESU.
>>53154328
>weight and mass are the same thing
Someone needs to go back to grade school
>>53154328
The X205TA weighs 980 grams, good luck beating that.
They are still out there. Even some really lightweight stuff with only 32gig flash though.
Sadly they wont run linux very good iirc. If they'd run ubuntu good, I'd instantly buy one.
>>53154376
Only costed me $220, though.
>>53154950
Not after you upgraded the RAM and SSD. I see that there was a version with a Core i3. Might've been a better choice.
This is relevant to this thread:
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Wangblows killed it with their touch obsession
>>53152644
I miss the thinkpad 240, that was a cute little computer (on the right in pic related).
I love to have one. Might even retrofit one with modern specs as a project.
Just refurbished my Asus f201e pretty happy so far desu
got pic related when it was a new thing. for two stretches of time it was my main computer. tbqh, even in 2010 the web was still usable on an 800x480 screen with a dogshit atom cpu. at some point i even managed to fit a functional slackware installation on the 4 GB SSD.
Netbooks?
You mean those tiny little complicated calculators with limited I/O
Move over little boys, the big man rolling though
B I G M A N
>>53156534
absolutely disgusting. I'd pay the price of that laptop on top of the price to buy a proper laptop just to not use that ridiculous piece of shit.
>>53156534
At that point you might as well just get an all-in-one, because you aren't lugging that thing very far.
>>53155871
thanks anon, just picked one up, looks way better than a chromebook
>>53152201
no, the keyboards were simply too small and my autism level is not quite high enough to carry around my mechanical keyboard with them.
I will never buy another laptop that is any wider or narrower than this.
>>53156672
forgot pic
>>53156571
but anon
>it was free
No. They got killed off because of tablets and smartphones doing pretty much the same thing but lacking a trackpad or keyboard (which can be added to said devices via bluetooth.
>>53154301
That thing looks like a really comfy bed machine.
Install your favorite Linux distro and it'll run faster too.
Also looks like a good device for emulating shit and VNs
>>53156956
1366x768 is not comfy
>>53156969
At 11.6" it is you sperglord
>>53156969
It's a 200 dollar machine you dingus
It's its fine on such a small screen. Considering getting one cheap off ebay actually
>>53157072
I picked up a mfr. refurb X205TA for $130. Not too bad.
>>53152201
Those tiny touchpads were unusable and the small resolutions made everything feel cluttered af.
>>53157201
I hated small trackpads till I tried some option in Synaptics trackpad drivers where it gave the cursor momentum, shit was cash. Too bad the only laptop I ever had that supported the feature was one with a decent trackpad and not in need of said feature.
>>53152201
I had a Dell Mini 9 I ran Lubuntu on through highschool. I played fucking oregon trail on that thing instead of working in classes for my whole senior year on that bad oscar. I hope they make new ones with the new atoms. They were honestly my favorite form factor of any laptop ever.
>>53156956
It's not that comfy. The speakers are in an odd location (and shitty), so when you have the device in tent/presentation mode, you can't hear a thing.
I'd like to put a Linux distro on it, but I don't know what distros are good for touch screens, and which ones aren't complete ass when it comes to battery life.
I had an Asus EEE PC 701 Surf and it was utter garbge. But I needed a cheap and portable calculator back then and it perfomed very well for those money. Now it's at my brothers house used as an HTPC.
still use my mini 311 running arch as a bed machine, upgraded it to 3gb ram 640 hdd years ago and use it to backup my music
>>53157724
Yeah the first netbooks were so awful it's amazing the concept caught on at all. They should have been dead in the water. It wasn't until the 2009 netbooks that they really started improving and became more capable than "sluggish one tab at a time browsing"
>>53152201
Fuck no
>cheapest quality plastic
>the most god awful tn screen
>soundcard? Let's not even fucking try
>so fucking slow that it makes a snail blush
If you can get windows off of them, the 10.1 tablets they sell at best buy are good netbooks(Asus T100).
I'm not anti-windows, but they would run better with BSD or something.
>>53152201
Yeah I got one of those in the pic. The fan on it is loud as fuck. My tablet and smartphone pretty much replaced it, but I've been thinking about wiping the laptop and installing ubuntu on it.
>>53152201
Miss them? Asus sell some pretty nice ones for ~$200 with awesome battery life of ~12 hours.
I mean, they are good for portability and traveling, and if you already have a good desktop, why would you need anything more than that?
>>53152201
>Does anyone else miss netbooks?
Must have been one of the shortest-lived fads ever. There never was a good use-case for them.
>>53161950
>I never found a good use-case for them
FTFY
XPS13 is a 13" laptop in a 11.3" form.
>>53152201
still got one from 2011. It was one of the Amd cpu/gpu combos, it's slow but it runs nixos, emacs and smplayer really well.
I wouldn't need the extra power if it weren't for the javascript on most websites.
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Just got an 11 inch Thinkpad X120e today, setting it up with Windows and use it to watch anime
Using an eeepc daily.
Perfect for programming in bed or on the fly. Limited juice handled by running Arch and minimalistic DE. I do all my programming in vim.
Really light, portable and doesnt burn my lap when I bring it to bed.
Only real bother is the small screen, but not that much of a problem
