Notes


Farewell to a netbook

Netbooks enjoyed a meteoric rise and fall in the late 2000s and early 2010s. Basically, they were minimally viable laptops that were maximally affordable. For anyone who wanted a cheapo laptop, they were great! Sure, they were slow, and cramped, and slow. But they were cheap!

Actually, that’s not fair. Netbooks were slower than their contemporaries, but anything clocked over 1 GHz isn’t “slow”. That still should be enough for most reasonable workloads, if not for bloat. But I digress. Farewell to a netbook