• whotookkarl@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Same had a little acer mini laptop in early 2000s I used it for notes, office apps, etc during college and between the battery life and how much more portable it was than the giant laptop I had at the time it was great, it ran BSD without any fuss too.

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      10 hours ago

      There’s some talk somewhere else yesterday about how PC/laptop sales are tanking. It’s mostly because people don’t want “AI” computer.

      Out of all the things in the past 20 years I miss - it was my netbook. It was amazing in college for me too.

      Some say tablets killed the netbook, but there have been so many failed tablets that are not “iPad.” It’s a real gap in form factor and need