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Ask HN: Where have all the netbooks gone?

1 pointsby mknitsover 11 years ago

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chipsyover 11 years ago
Tablets ate them up, and quite comprehensively at that.<p>You can get a new Win8 tablet in a similar spec and post-inflation price range to the old netbooks(Atom CPU, $250-350). Attach a keyboard to that and it&#x27;s basically the same experience, just a little faster and slimmer.<p>You can get a cheaper tablet if you opt for Android - or a more expensive small laptop if you get an ultrabook. So the price spectrum is actually covered better than it used to be, just with different categories.