I never got one because, although cool, the limited use I'd have done wouldn't justify even the affordable price as I had no mobility or form factor needs.
@amoroso@flargh loved my netbook. Had an MSI Wind so I could turn it into a hackintosh. Used it religiously in grad school for taking notes in coursework
@amoroso I had one of those first 7" netbooks. It was really durable and the size was very convenient while in school. I even wrote a lot of code on it.
Batteries and throttling were not as good back then, so the battery life was only around 2-3 hours IIRC. Would love a modern version with 8+ hour battery life.
@amoroso I bought a netbook as a broke college student. I thought netbooks were going to be the hot new thing, but I was definitely wrong. I still have mine in a closet but I’m not sure what I can use it for.
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I never ended up getting one either. By the time they came out my laptop was only 4-ish years old with plenty of life left in it and I also had a Sony Clié PDA with a very usable folding keyboard dock so my ultra mobile needs were already covered too.
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The one that really appealed to me was the Sony netbook (Vaio P series) with the really wide screen and that was even less of an impulse buy price, unfortunately.
@amoroso That’s about right. Battery was in the hinge to keep it thin. I used that exact device to cover CES two years in a row because it was super portable by comparison to most devices at the time.
@amoroso It was enough for about 2.5 to 3 hours of use so you had to work quickly! Eventually some of these had extended batteries to double the run time and I had a few of those as well. That was the nice thing: You could pull the battery pack and replace it with a fresh one if you had a spare.
@amoroso I got one from Woot, IIRC. I still have it, though it's just in the pile of antique crap that I hold on to for some reason. It was a neat little machine. I ran Window 7 on it, and used it as a travel machine.
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