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This laptop has a 10” screen, weighs 900 grams and runs an efficient N100 cpu. Different category to a 15” 2kg cheap 5 year old dell.
A used x1 carbon is a better deal, faster, and weighs about the same with a bigger screen.
> "Netbooks are dead" Not if you buy an eeepc off ebay and put a light linux on it, then they're as good as always. Love me a good netbook
Glad to still see options for small portable laptops on the market, but nothing out there has drawn me away from the 2015 11" MacBook Air. Good keyboard and trackpad, and single core speed is comparable to the newer (albeit lower TDP) Minibook. It's enough for everyday use, and the fan allows for better sustained performance (though it's rarely needed). My main pain point is RAM (even with zram), but considering the…
A 2011 mb air weighs almost half a pound more than this and is slightly larger. Also you are forced to run on 1) MacOS (which I like but is a limitation for many) and 2) since it’s unsupported will have many (especially modern) apps and such not work. I love my 2016 MBpro. Can still render edit and render 4K video, pulls solid work. But it’s limited. Can’t even download Final Cut on it anymore because Apple won’t let…
As for size and dimensions, the difference is under 200 grams, with the MBA being smaller than the 2009-ish era netbooks the blog post compares the Minibook to. Everything is a matter of trade offs.
I had to close everything on the OS just to watch a youtube video at When I got my first job out of uni, they gave me a Macbook Air, and it was so fast that I felt bad thinking about how much time I wasted waiting for things to happen on that netbook.
17 years later, in my late 30s, I don't think I could go back to such a small screen. But it was cool doing real work on something so small.
Every time I try to search, it's either unavailable or 100s€$ over the original price?
I just unpacked my eee PC from college after a move. 8gb of RAM and can barely run a very stripped down version of windows 7. Just the thought of writing my final year project on that little machine again is giving me RSI. I'll stick with my 13" MBP going forward. Netbooks served a purpose but I'm not sure they make much sense anymore
> 8gb of RAM and can barely run a very stripped down version of windows 7 Not sure what you're doing, but Win7 itself uses 1 GB of RAM or less. Even just 2 GB of total system RAM was enough for basic usage, like document editing and single-tab web browsing.
I have one of these. It's an awful piece of shit and I love it. I bought it because I was going on holiday and didn't want to take a real laptop both in case it got stolen and to dissuade me from using it. I ended up using it more than I would have a normal laptop because it's so small and easily carried. My current use case is for my commute into the office, it easily fits on the microscopic train tables and doesn't…
> It's an awful piece of shit and I love it. I think, realistically, the issues the author describes - particularly with the keyboard and trackpad - would drive me up the wall for any kind of serious use. But then, if you're travelling on holiday, do you really want serious use? I like your rationale of taking something that's bad enough that you won't want to use it but you have something if you really need it even…
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Confirmed. Minibooks are amazing in cramped locations (for example, airplane seats), or just to always keep in the bag for support. There's nothing in the market like them, which is a shame - I think a slightly better quality Minibook (Chuwis are plain crap) would be a very solid laptop.
a Steam deck with a small form factor keyboard?