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Ask HN: Where have all the netbooks gone?
1 point by mknits on Feb 14, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Tablets ate them up, and quite comprehensively at that.

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's basically the same experience, just a little faster and slimmer.

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.




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