The netbook was the first real reinvention of the PC since the laptop, but in the last couple of years the form factor has been selling less and less well and fewer manufacturers have been willing to offer the devices.RIP the netbook? Image: CNET
In a piece over at The Guardian, Charles Arthur has called time on the mini-laptops, and who can blame him? It certainly seems that the netbook’s day is almost over.
I remember getting one of the first netbooks when they came out half a dozen years ago or so and being tremendously excited by the possibilities of such a cheap and utterly portable computing device.
Cheaper, lighter and faster than the laptops that preceded them I was pretty certain netbooks would take over the world. And yet, within a few years, they’ve all but disappeared from tech industry roadmaps.
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