Back in 2009, I had an Asus EeePC 900A, running Eeebuntu. It was an amazingly portable, little laptop. It wasn’t a powerful laptop, by any stretch. It’s portability, well made up for it. You could fit the EeePC in a glove box or a purse even.
Above the Asus EeePC 900
Many netbooks back then, were pretty awful for typing on, and many weren’t good for a lot of things. Especially due to their small screens, cramped keyboards, tiny track pads, and slow atom processors.
However, there were very good netbooks, like the Thinkpad X120E, and the later Asus EeePCs, that improved upon many things.
Above: ThinkPad X120e
Now, with the new Windows on ARM laptops coming out, that offer 20 hours of battery. Also, ‘always on’ technology, like we have in our smartphones. Could netbooks make a successful comeback? Would you buy a modern ARM based netbook?
What do you think?
seapea
<p>I would IF the keyboard met my needs. </p><p>I have a netbook that I was able to install (unforced) the premier version of W10 on. Sill bring it out once in a while, especially useful if i just want to RDP into a pc. </p>
Locust Infested Orchard Inc.
<p>Since learning of the price for the newly announced Windows on ARM laptops, it makes little sense to purchase a non-x86 laptop at such a price as there shall be a performance hit due to emulation. However it would be notable if any manufacturer have any intention of releasing ~6" Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 devices built with Windows on ARM. Devices embedded with the Snapdragon 845 SoC shall be the flagship devices of 2018.</p><p><br></p><p>As far as netbook revival is concerned, I am of the opinion it will be the AMD Ryzen Mobility 15W platform (Ryzen with Radeon Vega Graphics and Gigabit LTE modem by Snapdragon), announced at Qualcomm Snapdragon Technology 2017 Summit in Hawaii that will annihilate Intel's eight generation 15W Coffee Lake laptops, as the Ryzen Mobility totally outperforms and outclasses Intel's offerings.</p>
Locust Infested Orchard Inc.
<blockquote><a href="#225241"><em>In reply to germdy:</em></a></blockquote><p>Most likely not, because Windows on ARM is adapted specifically for Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC, whilst Surface 2 RT possessed a Nvidia Tegra 4 ARM SoC.</p><p><br></p><p>Besides, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 and 845 SoC are the only two ARM SoCs currently that have been accommodated specifically for Windows on ARM, over the past year or so.</p><p><br></p>
proesterchen
<p>Are you trying to incite nightmares in those of us who actually used these abominations?</p>