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Re:Chromebooks and the Cost of Complexity by davidgerard on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @06:57AM (#7016809)
It's the return of the netbook. Microsoft and Intel killed the netbook, it took someone the size of Google to bring it back.

This excellent Register piece may need updating: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/01/goodbye_netbooks/

Man. I was so happy when netbooks came along. I'd wanted something like a netbook ever since I got onto the Internet. I suspect my next laptop will be a Chromebook with Xubuntu installed.

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Re:Chromebooks and the Cost of Complexity by ralphc on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @01:32PM (#7018884)
I bought a netbook last year for the express purposes of being a low-powered ssh etc. server for the house. Works good for that.
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