What happened to netbooks?

What happened to netbooks?

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Tablets happened.

they're called hybrid laptops now

>tablets killed netbooks
>son of netbooks -the convertible/2-in-ones killed tablets
It's like pottery it rhymes.

>shit battery life
>shit CPU/GPU
>shit screens
>shit keyboards and touchpads

>tfw fell for the UMPC meme and currently waiting for toshiba click 10 to arrive

what do you mean?

tablets have better specs and WAY better screen than netbooks

He's talking about the hybrids that run full windows 10 that cost about the same as tablets.

Ultrabooks replaced them.

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.

If you have 2k burning a hole in your pocket, get the Panasonic RZ5. It's basically the last of its kind worth considering.

They never died.

They're called Chromebooks and sell a shit ton more than Mac shit.

They also sell for a 10th of the price of a macbook and have insanely low margins.

your mom happend

go to bed, george

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.

Where did you get it?

Heh, my mother was born decades before the first netbook or even laptop was developed. Nice try, fella. Heh.

>meme
>meme worthy

do you even know what the words you choose mean?

>They got replaced by
somthing more shitty. laptops are king.

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.

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.

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.

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.

>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.

Steve Jobs talked some shit about them and then they disappeared forever.

It's possible that the hardware was too exotic.

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.

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

Nothing, still use mine daily and have 2 others

Nice

Steve jobs was right about about netbooks and adobe flash.

I quite liked my toshiba netbook though

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.

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:

cr-48.wikispaces.com/

Grabbed all the needed files for everything, drivers, etc, so I'm good to go.

They turned into 11.6" laptops. They're everywhere and dirt cheap. ASUS makes the best ones IMO.

Convertables, 2-in-1s, and surprisingly enough just plain cheap ultraportables in the 11" size category.

>cr-48.
Man that machine is gorgeous, do they not sell them anymore? I want one!

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

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 Sup Forums 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.

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.

CR-48 is old and its specs are really unbearable for 2016

But hey if you like it, enjoy it senpai

eeepc1005p reporting in. Still going strong and using it every day!

Is that a 1015PN 1.66GHz? Those were the fucking best. Wish they still sold em.

user that machine is shit for use in 2016 like this user said 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.

>netbooks
Why not get a thinkpad x or a teeny weeny macbook air instead?

Yeah, but you also have a framed photo of Stallman, so none of us are surprised you're using shit hardware.

can't hate a man who knows what he wants and ultimately gets it
nice user

basically they have the same cpus as tablets, they still sell, cheaper than tablets at the same specs

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

>not having a framed photo of Stallman
>complaining about hardware that can be used for shitposting just fine

>not having a framed photo of Stallman
SHUT UP YOU AUTIST!

>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

Hyyyeeeee!

Saved.

Please upgrade to at least something with a baytrail atom. I'm begging you.

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.

They were garbage spec-wise.

The form factor still exists but with generally better hardware inside and much more versatility.

>me unzips

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.

pics or it didn't happen

Does this count as a netbook
youtube.com/watch?v=IE0GgVrcxgU

wrong video
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nihongo desu ne

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Utter fucking garbage

Even for a poorfag, they are poor choice

It has usb3. I use a sandisk ultrafit in dm-raid0 with the internal ssd: 200MB/s baby!

What is you're poorfag advice?

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.

How is it so light but looks so fucking bulky and awkward?

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

It's so .. square.

square is good. Not enough of it these days. Another reason why I miss IBM thinkpads.

DELETE THIS

I miss netbooks.

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).

Because it has ports and slots that all laptops should have. It has a pretty functional design desu.

Those aren't netbooks, (at least the ThinkPad, the Air is debatable), they're ultraportables.

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

That isn't a UMPC.

You could have just got a thinkpad instead if you wanted a fat black beauty, but with actual guts

Get a used business laptop instead

This is my netbook.

not this fucking thread AGAIN

It's beautiful. Good job.

Is the T420 considered a netbook? It's on the smaller side

I don't use this word often, but you're a
>cuck

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.

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.

No

X220 maybe