What happened to netbooks?
Tablets happened.
they're called hybrid laptops now
>>55506790
>tablets killed netbooks
>son of netbooks -the convertible/2-in-ones killed tablets
It's like pottery it rhymes.
>>55506784
>shit battery life
>shit CPU/GPU
>shit screens
>shit keyboards and touchpads
>>55506784
>tfw fell for the UMPC meme and currently waiting for toshiba click 10 to arrive
>>55506856
what do you mean?
tablets have better specs and WAY better screen than netbooks
>>55506923
He's talking about the hybrids that run full windows 10 that cost about the same as tablets.
>>55506784
Ultrabooks replaced them.
>>55506923
Obviously lol, netbooks are aimed at people who aren't very tech literate and just want a fast easy computer. I bought an Acer Aspire One back when it came out for around $399 CAD for a price perspective.
Ultrabooks on the other hand are people who want something small but powerful. That's why their price is so high.
Just got an original Google CR-48 for free the other day (just had to pay shipping to get it here), already ordered a new mSATA SSD for it, plan to get Windows 7 up and running, maybe dual boot with Backtrack since it's more than enough to handle that. Swap out the 3G Gobi modem for another WiFi card and use it for pentesting, should be awesome.
Love this machine, wanted one when Google started giving them away and I applied like 5 minutes after they announced it during a keynote but never did get accepted to participate.
Took almost 6 years to get one but god dammit I got one now.
Flat black beauty, I really do love this machine. Yeah, it's old, yeah, it's just a single core Atom CPU but it works and it's mine finally.
>>55506784
If you have 2k burning a hole in your pocket, get the Panasonic RZ5. It's basically the last of its kind worth considering.
>>55506784
They never died.
They're called Chromebooks and sell a shit ton more than Mac shit.
>>55507130
They also sell for a 10th of the price of a macbook and have insanely low margins.
>>55506784
your mom happend
>>55506846
go to bed, george
>>55506784
I had one like 10 years ago that had windows xp on it. I spent like $300 or $400 which took me probaby over a year to save up. It workes and played youtube videos which was all i needed but it was almost too slow to use even as a 12 year old.
They have meme CPUs and screens.
If a company would come out with one that wasn't so meme worthy they would useful. I fucking hate tablets. But unfortunately the tablets now perform way better than most netbooks.
They got replaced by pic related.
Functionally redundant design. Nobody wants to try and type something out for work on a tiny keyboard while working around a small screen with a Windows UI crammed in. The specs also meant they scaled poorly with most applications and the poor battery life meant being bound to a plug, unlike a full-size laptop that would give you a few hours on the move before packing up on you.
>>55507008
Where did you get it?
>>55507154
Heh, my mother was born decades before the first netbook or even laptop was developed. Nice try, fella. Heh.
>>55507176
>meme
>meme worthy
do you even know what the words you choose mean?
>>55507193
>They got replaced by
somthing more shitty. laptops are king.
>>55507176
If they made one that was useful, they would still want more $$$. Profit is king i guess.
These netbooks were touted as the cheap electronic for the third world. One Laptop Per Child, to some poor sod who has no education. Did that ever take off? Seems like they were just sold for the masses.
>>55506784
They were shit.
Two years ago I promised some girl to explain her how to make plots with matplotlib, I told her to bring her laptop. Turns out she had some fucking Eee-thing and it was horrible. I forgot just how fucking slow PCs can be. Took almost an hour for Anaconda to install. When it was running even super simple shit scripts that just plotted some example graph it took ten seconds, while it finished as good as instantly on my laptop. I can't imagine how people ever put up with that shit. And you could say it's enough for internet and whatever, but honestly no fucking way. Even opening a new tab took centuries. It eventually did it, but holy hell it's not worth wasting your nerves little by little.
>>55506784
Cheap tablet+keyboard = better and cheaper than a shitty netbook
I used to own a Toshiba NB200. My uncle gave it to me to fix it because the screen was not turning on at all. Turns out the screen hinges just pulled the screen cable out of the mobo.
>Open up, re-connect, it werks
When I booted it I cringed at the sight of 3 AV programs, 2 network managers and all kinds of other crap. Hadn't been updated at all in 6 years and the hard drive was almost dead so defrag was hanging. I was afraid to format and reinstall the OS.
>Spent 3 days to clean it up
>Played Red Alert 2 and HoMM III very decently, battery power lasting a surprising 4-5 hours
The screen was indeed crappy but it would've been a nice piece of tech to carry around.
>Hit the power button one day and *Bzzzz* power supply dies, maybe taking mobo with it. Didn't bother to check.
I I used my eeepc from 2009 to last year.
The netbook keyboard broke, I replaced it.
The HDD was shit so o put a ssd
Then the keyboard, the female power input on the motherboard and the screen connection broke in like a week interval.
I bought a second hand thinkpad x201 which will do the job at for 5 years (I expect)
I don't play vidya and I felt for the "light Linux" + openbox meme so a netbook would have done just fine if it wasn't for the shitty quality.
>>55506856
Back then all of this was true about netbooks. The early Atoms were crap, and rarely would you find a decent keyboard on a netbook. They also usually have too little ram for them to age well.
A netbook by today's standards could actually be great.
>decent resolutions possible
>newer atoms and mobile oriented processors that are way better
>ddr3/4 and higher limit to ram
But we all know it won't happen because consumer electronics these days are always about jewing the consumer.
Three things, netbooks followed suit of every other consumer tier laptop in following the poor Macbook trackpad design with no buttons, making it a clusterfuck to use. Second, the introduction of tablets. Third, chromebooks came out.
That is really it.
The dumb consumers don't realize that they have less in buying a tablet rather than a netbook, and because of that the demand shifted away from it. Now it is difficult to find one at all that isn't used or part of the business line laptops.
>>55507419
>spent 3 days to clean it up
Not just doing a fresh linux install
They didn't perform very well, and were eventually displaced by a combination of tablets, transformer/hybrid laptops, and ultrabooks.
For a comeback, there would need to be a compelling advantage over ultrabooks to make up for the smaller screen size.
I don't know if price would be enough.
>>55506784
Steve Jobs talked some shit about them and then they disappeared forever.
>>55507572
It's possible that the hardware was too exotic.
>>55507572
>>55507586
As I mentioned the hard drive was so gone I couldn't even defrag the thing without it hanging and me needing to kill the netbook every time. So I didn't want to risk it and I was too lazy to look around for a new hard drive. In retrospect that should've been the first think to do.
>>55506784
Nothing...they still make sub 12 inch notebooks.
I use an HP slatebook x2 10 inch tablet/netbook convertible. Get it on eBay for about 200 right now
>>55506784
Nothing, still use mine daily and have 2 others
>>55507727
Nice
Steve jobs was right about about netbooks and adobe flash.
I quite liked my toshiba netbook though
>>55506784
They came around before tablets appeared. Once tablets happened, there wasn't much reason to get one. If you want to be more mobile which was the point of a netbook, tablets did it better. If you needed more computing power then you'd get a real laptop/computer.
tl;dr
Other products did what netbooks did but better.
>>55507204
A member of a forum I participate in offered it when I pointed out that I always wanted one but never got into the beta program for the CR-48. He got one, used it for like a year, took the battery out and stored it in a closet and never thought about it much till he saw my post talking about wanting one.
Made the offer to send it my way if I paid shipping (like $20) and I said "HELL YES" so, it arrived on Friday. Ordered an Intel 310 80GB SSD from an eBay seller earlier, that'll be here by this coming Friday.
Already done research into most everything the one really good CR-48 related website:
https://cr-48.wikispaces.com/
Grabbed all the needed files for everything, drivers, etc, so I'm good to go.
>>55506784
They turned into 11.6" laptops. They're everywhere and dirt cheap. ASUS makes the best ones IMO.
>>55506784
Convertables, 2-in-1s, and surprisingly enough just plain cheap ultraportables in the 11" size category.
>>55507928
>cr-48.
Man that machine is gorgeous, do they not sell them anymore? I want one!
>>55507008
lit a cheap plastic clone of a black macbook. why not just get a black macbook, they have core2duos in them
Wait for Apollo Lake low cost notebooks
>>55508018
They were never for sale, Google made ~60,000 of them and gave 'em away back in December 2010 through April 2011. And yes, they are gorgeous, the entire body has that rubberized coating to it and even the keys do too, it's pretty awesome.
I know it's old but, sometimes I'm willing to wait many many years to finally get stuff I want and this one was no exception. I kept an eye on craigslist and eBay over the years hoping for a good deal on one but never found one worth making an offer. People ask some crazy prices for a laptop that most of them didn't pay one fucking cent for.
The most frustrating aspect was that I applied like almost immediately when they announced the signups back in December 2015, literally minutes after they were announced in that keynote event speech at Google but never got one.
And then other people, being the greedy scumbucket motherfuckers they are, applied multiple times and got accepted multiple times. I remember seeing one guy here on 4chan actually posting pics of the 9 - yes, fucking 9 of them - CR-48's he got by using multiple emails. And he wasn't alone, there were a lot of people pretty much bragging that they got a bunch of 'em and were planning on selling them.
eBay even had to block sales of them after people started that crap at Google's request because they were never meant for any kind of sale at all.
Humans, they'll fuck things up every god damned time.
MSI Wind U100 reporting in. Still going strong.
I wish netbooks were still a thing; ultrabooks can suck my cock, dude.
>>55508021
Because most original black MacBooks were defective, that's why, and if I could get one free or even for shipping I'd probably do it but nobody gives Apple products away for free, especially not Apple.
I owned a black MacBook when they first came out hence me knowing the defects quite well, I returned it after purchase and they tried to stiff me with a 15% return fee and I just practically screamed the Manager's head off at the Apple Store 'cause I paid cash in full out of pocket and wasn't giving them $175 free for a defective product. Had to make them try and play a retail DVD to show it wouldn't because the POS Matsushita optical drive was worthless.
The CR-48 is better, actually, and suits my needs pretty much perfect and it damned sure has better battery life. Same resolution display, works just fine, and it has that 3G modem in it too which I just started using with my T-Mobile service and it works great, I get about 14Mbps using the UMTS service, might even upgrade to a proper 4G LTE capable WWAN modem at some point.
MacBooks ain't all that, son, not even.
>>55508177
CR-48 is old and its specs are really unbearable for 2016
But hey if you like it, enjoy it senpai
>>55506784
eeepc1005p reporting in. Still going strong and using it every day!
>>55507727
Is that a 1015PN 1.66GHz? Those were the fucking best. Wish they still sold em.
>>55508177
>>55507008
Anon that machine is shit for use in 2016 like this anon said >>55508343 Like holy shit it must be so god damn slow.
I still use a 1201T daily. Works a treat and I'm quite fond of the display quality. With increased RAM an el' cheapo SSD and a modded BIOS it's fast enough for the side projects I do in it.
>>55506784
>netbooks
Why not get a thinkpad x or a teeny weeny macbook air instead?
>>55508360
Yeah, but you also have a framed photo of Stallman, so none of us are surprised you're using shit hardware.
>>55507008
>>55507928
>>55508106
>>55508177
can't hate a man who knows what he wants and ultimately gets it
nice anon
>>55506784
basically they have the same cpus as tablets, they still sell, cheaper than tablets at the same specs
>>55508368
It is indeed
Honestly I'm surprised at how fast it is, haven't had it slow down on me once even when I had Wangblows7 on it
>>55508563
>not having a framed photo of Stallman
>complaining about hardware that can be used for shitposting just fine
>>55508693
>not having a framed photo of Stallman
SHUT UP YOU AUTIST!
>>55508563
>1998+18
>using your i7 to shitpost on a vietnamese ricefarmer board
>having a framed steve jobs next to a picture of your wifes son
>>55508725
Hyyyeeeee!
>>55508118
Saved.
>>55508360
Please upgrade to at least something with a baytrail atom. I'm begging you.
>>55508811
If you pay for it :^) I'm not using this thing since 2009 because I like the n450 but because my budget does not allow to save for tech. I rather travel 2 times a year than have emacs start up 10 seconds faster.
>>55506784
They were garbage spec-wise.
The form factor still exists but with generally better hardware inside and much more versatility.
>>55508811
>me unzips
>>55506784
Still using my Dell Mini 10v.
Touch pad sucks but I use a mouse.
Mainly using the machine to play j-novels when am riding the train.
>>55507928
pics or it didn't happen
Does this count as a netbook
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE0GgVrcxgU
>>55509220
wrong video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQLxTOEDXLE
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>>55506784
Utter fucking garbage
Even for a poorfag, they are poor choice
>>55509519
It has usb3. I use a sandisk ultrafit in dm-raid0 with the internal ssd: 200MB/s baby!
>>55509601
What is you're poorfag advice?
>>55508839
Bro you can get a bay trail atom netbook for like $100 on ebay easily. If you can't even save that up you might want to stop with the coke binges on your travel budget.
>>55509220
How is it so light but looks so fucking bulky and awkward?
>>55509760
in what way does it look bulky and awkward
What happened to them?
Nothing happened to them.
They are still around. Hell, that sleek apple laptop is nothing but a glorified netbook
>>55509874
It's so .. square.
>>55509900
square is good. Not enough of it these days. Another reason why I miss IBM thinkpads.
>>55509636
DELETE THIS
I miss netbooks.
>>55507524
Are you me?
I also replaced my eeepc from 2008 with a used X201 a month ago. Loving the X201 though, great replacement (although I'm missing my tiny screen and the battery life).
>>55509900
Because it has ports and slots that all laptops should have. It has a pretty functional design desu.
>>55508518
Those aren't netbooks, (at least the ThinkPad, the Air is debatable), they're ultraportables.
>>55506784
intel kept fucking up the atom line and manufacturers gave u[
Pretty good netbook right here. the only downsides are
>2gb of ram
but you can find 4gb boards online
>32gb of storage
you can upgrade it though (single msata port unless you can solder)
>glossy 1366x768 screen
>shitty trackpad
However, its touchscreen has decent linux support and it has a single usb 3.0 a single 2.0 and hdmi. I can get about 6-7 hours of battery life on it (xubuntu) but its not powerful enough for 10-bit video but its a great machine to shitpost in bed with.
Would buy it again
>>55506875
That isn't a UMPC.
>>55507008
You could have just got a thinkpad instead if you wanted a fat black beauty, but with actual guts
>>55509636
Get a used business laptop instead
>>55506784
This is my netbook.
not this fucking thread AGAIN
>>55510490
It's beautiful. Good job.
Is the T420 considered a netbook? It's on the smaller side
>>55507008
I don't use this word often, but you're a
>cuck
>>55507130
They sell more because they're fucking cheap and really easy - just like netbooks were.
What do Macs have to do with this? The fact that you decided to bring them into this necessarily means you need to grow up.
>>55507524
>>55507572
>>55510358
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.
Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
>>55510620
No
X220 maybe
>>55510921
more like x120e or edge 11
x220 is a standard laptop
>>55507928
>12 inch screen
>N455 CPU
How about you purge this shit and get x220/x230 with classic keyboard instead.
>>55506784
Manufacturers killed them by shipping them with bloated OSes followed by tablets being released which satisfied the needs of most people who are fine typing on a touch screen. With optimizing though the older netbooks are great machines with no modern comparison. Pic related is small enough to fit in a cargo pocket (wouldn't recommend it though as the weight might throw off your step) while still having a keyboard large enough for you to type normally on and not sacrificing your ability to use it in less stable positions like tablets with keyboard cases.
>>55510965
x120e is total garbage though
>>55511026
Forgot to add, tablets with keyboard cases also tend to be larger than the older original netbooks.
>>55507193
The design is shit and pisses me off
![csm_IMG_3885_03_83698dd91c[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/s254Hx9.jpg "csm_IMG_3885_03_83698dd91c[1].jpg")
>>55511033
No senpai, that shit's good, even has an extendo battery, find me one other netbook with that shit
X130e is when it went to shit
>>55511033
It's not if you replace the motherboard with i3-powered edge 11 one.
Also E-350 can be heavily undervolted which makes it actually usable.
>>55506784
Modern netbook.
>>55511111
>It's not if you replace the motherboard with i3-powered edge 11 one.
Oh wow, that actually works? Fits right in?
I might have to do this
>>55511141
Yes, it fits fine.
GPU is much worse tho, but if you really need a better CPU then it's the way to go. Oh, and you loose the 16GB RAM ability on it.
>>55507008
I got one during the promotion back in 2010. The hardware itself was great at the time. When Hexxeh's BIOS was released, it became a great little Linux machine.
That being said, the plastic chasis is complete shit. I had a similar idea a few years ago and bought a new SSD to revive it and give it some new life. Literally a day later, the right piece of the hinge snapped clean off and looked like the plastic had deteriorated while it was in storage.
Bottom line is that I would not trust one of these things or invest in them in 2016. Just buy a used IT laptop on eBay and mod the fuck out of it.
>>55511111
>E-350
disgusting
Behold, the great-grandfather of netbooks. This thing actually ran Windows 3.1/95 well when it was on the market, unlike later netbooks that struggle with even XP.
I still have one for VNs and IRC.
>>55511214
Why would you need more computing power in a netbook?
It's still 200% faster than N450
>>55508106
I had to finally recycle mine a few years ago after the screen hinge snapped. Would have loved to keep it as a museum piece, but the plastic matte finish was peeling all over and made it rather unsightly.
>>55509636
Is that a wig or Patrick Stewart's actual hair?
>>55511218
That little laptop was amazing, I was blown by how small it was at that time.
>>55511218
>unlike later netbooks that struggle with even XP.
Mine with an old N270 Atom and 1 GB of RAM runs Windows POS 2009 without issues, at least while playing Touhou. Haven't tried anything other than that yet.
>>55508360
I've got a 1005HAB myself. Good little netbook.
>>55511288
Yeah, if you put even an older SSD in those things they run like new again.
>>55511288
Touhou runs well on a 500MHz Pentium 3.
>>55511340
But it ran like shit in Wine on the same netbook. Ran at ~1 FPS. Fun fact the game is actually programmed to close automatically if it's running that slow.
I bought this because it was a lot cheaper than a normal laptop at the time. Also I liked how small it was.
After a ram upgrade and an ssd it still is a good back up or game machine if the power goes out.
i used the lenovo s21e-20 and it runs ubuntu alright
>>55509220
that thing is really pretty
>>55509220
>$4000
>still no chink clones yet
Fuck this gay earth.
>>55509220
Looks like I know what I'm buying when I go to Japan.
>>55511663
RZ5 is out now.
I have an HP Mini 1151NR running Ububtu 140.4.3. Runs like a champ.
>>55511806
*Ubuntu. Damn.
>>55506784
>You can't work on a 1024x600 display
>For non-work, people prefer phones and tablets
>>55510490
treat it well
>>55509519
>>55509519
Yes!
I've got a E1318T with the AMD A4-1200, 4GB ram and a 1366x768 touchscreen. Best netbook I've used, compared to an MSI wind and a Vaio P. Nice keyboard, quick enough after I put an SSD in it and replaced windows 8, battery life is stunning considering it has an AMD chip in it, I can get 6 hours of shitposting on a charge.
I got it for £35 at less than a year old because the guy lost the charger, instead of buying a replacement I just soldered the right size barrel connector onto a 19V Sony charger I already had.
>>55508360
>>55508368
Had one of those, it is still the most versatile lappy I've ever owned. Guy I sold it to a couple years back is still using it. The slightly newer Asus 12" didn't even make it a month, I ended up with a 2011 MB Pro, which is still going strong but is so much bigger than the Eee. Those are perfect machines.
>>55506790
/thread
Fucking sucks that the only option for a modern netbook is a shitty ass tablet with a keyboard case.
>>55506875
That's a tablet, you dumbass.
>>55506856
This.
Netbooks were never good. The whole production was the result of Intel stealing the concept OLPC before they even had a prototype ready.
>>55510696
No one will ever give a shit about GNU.
Fuck Stallman while we're at it.
>>55507111
>Panasonic RZ5
god damn
i wish i was an ITfag with money to burn
>>55506784
They are still around, though they usually are just called "laptops with 10.1" screens."
>>55513913
That's a tablet.
>>55513921
No it isn’t. Tablets run mobile OSes like android or iOS. Nice try though.
>>55507111
>2k
Try 4k.
>>55506784
chromebooks took over
>>55513939
>No it isn’t
Yes it is, you dumbass.
>Tablets run mobile OSes like android or iOS
Then what the fuck is this?
>>55513939
>implying Windows isn't a mobile OS
Operating systems got too fat for the limited hardware, the keyboards kind of sucks, tablets came out, Chromebooks came out. There's just no reason for them to really exist right now. I've still got an original Lenovo S10 with Kali on it, an Acer Aspire One with Solus on it acting as the Couch Master 5000, but that's about it.
>>55513974
>>55513968
>implying you can access the desktop mode when using a phone
>>55513987
I've got an IdeaPad S10 too, it's great. If they came out with a modern one I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
>>55514003
>implying that has anything to do with any of this
>>55508360
those fingers post titties
>>55513939
There is no such thing as a strictly mobile OS except for perhaps ios
>>55514334
Not him but I agree with that. I run Android 6.0.1 on my laptop.
>>55510378
>>55512159
Per your definition.
>There is no clear boundary between subnotebooks and ultra-mobile PCs
Waiting for Apollo Lake here.
Was thinking about buying a 11' cloudbook but the celeron n3050 that comes with it is really a piece of shit, even worse than the n2840.
>>55514624
Whether you like it or not, netbooks are not UMPCs.
>>55514386
Running 4.4 on my slatebook. So comfy on a touchscreen netbook
>>55514624
>There is no clear boundary between subnotebooks and ultra-mobile PCs
There most certainly is a clear boundary between subnotebooks and UMPCs. Unless it has a physical keyboard that you can comfortably use while standing without anything to rest the device against and is designed to run a full desktop OS full time it isn't a UMPC.
>>55507946
The tie is between the new version of the x205ta and lenovos ideapad 100s
I loved my old netbook. I had it dual booted with Windows XP and n00buntu. I use to take it everywhere.
One night, I accidentally dropped it off my bed while I was sleeping and the headphone jack that was plugged in completely smashed the port to dust. I took it apart and found that the entire I/O board was split in half. I ordered a replacement, swapped it in, and it came back to life and worked great for awhile. The hdd failed about 6 months ago, and I haven't had the time to replace it.
>>55507764
>>55506784
JS came about and fucked them in the ass.
