/g/, What happened to netbooks?
Tablets replaced them.
>>54770236
they became chromebooks and cheap atom laptops
They got touchscreens
>>54770236
2-in-1 atom laptops which are pretty good unlike the piece of shit that is netbooks.
>>54770236
My lenovo S21-20e isnt so bad. I keep a pretty light distro on it, but the main reason they didnt last was the OS on it was shit. The power just isnt there.
Tablets
>>54770308
I'll take an Atom N270 netbook over a piece of shit tablet any day.
They were replace by tablet PCs (ie surface pro and all the other surface pro rip-offs)
>>54770333
Are you fucking retard, this things are a piece of shit
>>54770356
>this things are
>Are you fucking retard
No but you apparently are.
I don't care if the tablet's more powerful, it's a fucking tablet.
Were shit the whole time. Get an x series tipped. Thinkpad. Proper amount of actual power and reliability of hardware, same form factor. Alternative: smartphone with BT foldable keyboard.
>>54770420
>Alternative: smartphone with BT foldable keyboard
Kill yourself
Intel didn't deliver a good SoC for years
Hopefully Apollo Lake can encourage low cost notebooks again, with the HEVC Main10 hardware decoder and VP9 hardware decoder
There's a netbook umpc revolution around the corner my friend
2-in-1
>>54770484
That's not an UMPC.
don't know but when I go home for the summer I'm digging out those 2 crap netbooks my mom bought way back when and I'm installing Lubuntu on them
>>54770484
>clamshell
Disgusting.
>>54770236
They were replaced by tablets
>>54770533
It's not even an UMPC. Just an android phone with a glued keyboard running rebian mobile on a 2009 dual-core ARM CPU. It's expensive as fuck too. They want like $800 for one.
>>54770554
>debian mobile
Oh it's this retard
Nothing, they're still alive and well.
>>54770565
Debian mobile (aka Debian for ARM) can't run x86 software just like Windows RT.
>>54770484
That looks like a fucking Gameboy.
>>54770236
The became something else.
Chromebooks are the closest, they're a netbook.
Tablets, especially with keyboards are almost the same.
There's still netbooks around running windows.
And the high end became more like netbooks too, smaller and with lower power processors.
>>54770484
No, not at all.
>>54770652
Haha yeah I'd hate to be seen with something that tools so manchildish like that and look like a turbo autist. Good thing I have my trusty REAL umpc
>>54770683
Dam that looks pretty good. How good is the battery life?
>>54770624
It's the same thing for a different architecure. What is Debian for SPARC then? How about Debian for POWER?
>>54770652
About the same size as one
>>54770683
Mah nigga
Chromebooks
>>54770509
>>54770554
>>54770624
like clockwork
>>54770714
>tiny 16/32GB SSDs.
>Chrome OS
>literally worse than Android
gross
Heil
>>54770652
More like a very thick Nintendo DS.
It's meant for emulations --> gaming --> >>>/v/
>>54770738
but linux
Upgradable ssd's and ram
>>54770769
It's not even good for that.
>>54770783
Both are soldered on.
Also chrome os is a botnet, like a huge fucking botnet with extra botnet sprinkled on top.
Reminder that a Baytrail quadcore is as fast as a core 2 duo
>>54770701
Not catching the painfully obvious sarcasm. Wew, this is some high spectrum browsing my friend
>>54770941
Really though how is the battery? Mine gets 4.5hrs with the extended battery
>>54770808
>Both are soldered on.
>there's only one Chromebook
Mine's got a DDR3 SODIMM slot and mPCIe SSD.
>>54770484
It' not an UMPC
But still... this shit is way too expensive for a small netbook/nintendo ds with a Angry Birds processor
>>54771031
>Angry Birds processor
ebin
>>54770787
so --> FAIL
>>54771031
Then what would it be? It's pretty much a clear cut definitiom of what an ultra portable pc is.
Anyway this guy has a shit ton of umpcs that you guys might like seeing
https://youtu.be/hdEVDRiYiAU
>>54771081
>Ultra-mobile PC (UMPC) is a hand-held computing device capable of running a Windows operating system
It's like a UMPC, but is not one
>>54770738
16/32gb ssds are fine for the Chrome OS operating system and a chroot linux install. Linux doesn't need as much disk space compared to windows.
If storing music/videos/pics are a problem 128gb SD cards are $30-40 now.
>>54770738
And yet Chromebooks have overtaken Apple Macbook sales.
>>54771114
>UMPCs are smaller thansubnotebooks, have a TFT display measuring (diagonally) about 12.7 to 17.8cm (5 to 7 inch screen), are operated liketablet PCsusing atouchscreenor astylus, and can also have a physicalkeyboard...The first-generation UMPCs were simplePCs runningLinuxor an adapted version of Microsoft'stablet PCoperating system
>>54771159
UMPC's a specification created by Microsoft and Intel. Part of the specification is to have the ability to run Windows. ARM CPUs can't, it's therefore not a UMPC.
Same concept with Ultrabooks. Take an Ultrabook and keep everything the same but switch it to an AMD CPU, it's no longer an Ultrabook.
>Netbooks
They died off the second goodnuff tablets hit the $300 mark. Intel should have worked on a cheap chip for OLPC instead of stealing the idea and shopping it around to OEMs. From the start, the netbook format was garbage. Mini-chiclet keyboards are downright unusable. Most tried to run full fledged desktop OSes with insufficient ram. The battery life was a complete joke and screens had terrible resolution. Even if none of that were a factor, what purpose would these things serve?
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>>54770548
You knuckle dragging mouth breathers. Why do you post when you know nothing?
>>54770590
This. HP and Acer in particular still make them, available with terrible spinning disc and everything.
Microsoft killed them. You couldn't ship one with Windows Started Edition if the specs were too good and manufacturers wanted Starter Edition, so they made them all according to Microsoft's specs.
>>54771212
>Take an Ultrabook and keep everything the same but switch it to an AMD CPU, it's no longer an Ultrabook.
This is why HP has a line called sleekbook, which usually fits all the specifications of an Ultrabook(tm) but available with both Intel and AMD CPUs
>>54771253
The point of Netbooks is that you can access the internet from a portable machine.
Both tablets and smartphones already filled the niche.
>>54771212
>Literally pulling the "umm ashtully, look at this arbitrary technicality" and being a corporate brain slave
Please go talk about intel's™ high quality specifications somewhere else
>>54771339
Whether you like it or not, that's what a UMPC is.
>>54770236
Acer makes them still.
but really, a tablet makes a better straight web browsing device, and a larger laptop (and you can get one for cheap) is nicer to use for anything more than that
>>54771240
>screens had terrible resolution
god, this
who the fuck wants to do anything at 1024x600, particularly when a large amount of programs assume that a 720px tall screen is the shortest they'll be used on
and the sacrifices to keyboard size you make on a machine with a 10in display are appalling
I had a 1366x768 Acer 11in netbook, worked fine other than the utterly rock bottom build quality.
>>54771381
My netbook's got a 1024x576 screen and I'll still take it over a tablet.
>>54771353
according to your definition, maybe
Because they were ahead of their time
>>54771399
According to the definition.
>>54771353
Just like how when people ask for a bandaid they are legitimately looking for a Bandaid™ brand bandage, or a Kleenex for a tissue, or like in the south how soda is widely regarded as "coke".
>This OBJECTIVE truth trumps socially relevant context
>>54770236
apple wanted to do tablets and laptops
>>54771432
>ooh anon that's a neat iPod
Were you one of those retards?
>>54771338
That doesn't change the fact that they're still being made you mucous eating oaf.
>>54771446
Haha yea I love using brand names when it's not relevant because it's not like I called you a corporate brain slave for spitting out corporate definitions for the sake of promoting them >>54771339
I don't even care much for the open Pandora/pyra since I owned one and quickly sold it but not considering a umpc because "durr intel says it's not because it doesn't have THEIR brand of processor" is just like calling all mp3 players ipods
>>54770236
The hype died down, when tablets was introduced
>>54771137
No shit. MacBooks are $1000 a pop minimum, Chromebooks can be had from $250
Selling lots of cheap shit is less difficult than selling more expensive less-shit shit.
