Re:Dead Startup Toys
by lupire on Monday July 12, 2021 @02:37PM
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It didn't kickstart netbooks, which predate OLPC XO by a decade and were far less experimental designs.
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There were older subnotebooks of various kinds but "netbooks" by that name are usually associated with small Atom-based machines that Intel was pushing partly in response to OLPC hype. See, e.g., this article from 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20110130085835/http://blogs.comp...
Netbooks are usually considered to have started in 2007 with the OLPC and eeepc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netbook