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some of the most coveted laptops out there are also the most lightweight with

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plenty of higher-end models weighing 3 lbs or less but did you know that not

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long ago a whole category of super lightweight laptops failed miserably

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after a few years in the sun they were commonly referred to as netbooks and

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they often didn't weigh much more than just 2 lbs or about 1 kilogram although

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there was a trademarked product called the Scion Netbook that dates back to

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1999 it was quite different from the more recent products that Ed the term

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Netbook in more generic way these netbooks showed up on the market Circa

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2007 around the time that we were starting to get used to the idea of

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computers being internet machines where large numbers of tasks were being done

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through a web browser or through the cloud in general remember this is the

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same year that the original iPhone came out by which time we already had Google

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Docs country specific versions of YouTube and the ability to join Facebook

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even if you never went to college seeing as there was now a market for simpler

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PCS primarily designed for connecting to the internet and other basic uses like

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word processing the netbook seemed poised to fill a seemingly large void in

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the computer Market one of the first notable netbooks was the ASUS

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eepc 700 which was only about 9 in Long

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featured a 7-in screen and had a solid state drive instead of a mechanical hard

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drive uncommon for laptops at the time but useful for cutting down on weight

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and power consumption instead of Windows the e700 ran a Linux distribution that

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emphasized ease of use and low resource requirements so while they wasn't much

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appeal for power users its low $399

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price tag made it a hit for folks who didn't need a laptop with Advanced

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features they didn't have much use for the success of the EPC started a trend

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other computer manufacturers started pumping out their own netbooks into the

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market and ASUS released a huge number of other EPC models some of which

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featured Windows instead of Linux part of this growth was buoyed by Intel's

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2008 launch of their Atom Processor line which used very low voltages suitable

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for netbooks but if netbooks were so popular relatively recently why have

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though the availability of Windows surely attracted users who otherwise may

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not have considered a Netbook Windows actually contributed to the netbooks

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downfall you see although Microsoft didn't want to seeed the netbook space

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to Linux they also wanted to make sure people weren't buying cheap netbooks

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instead of a more powerful Windows device if they could afford it so

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netbooks often shipped with stripped down versions of Windows that Microsoft

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would only provide to Netbook manufacturers if their machines fell

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below certain specifications for a long

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time Microsoft wouldn't license Windows to run on netbooks with more than 1 GB

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of RAM although netbooks eventually accounted for about 20% of the laptop

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Market at their Zenith in 2010 the problem for the netbook was that

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competing Technologies were cashing up although their small size and low price

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point made netbooks convenient they were at the end of the day underpowered

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devices running stripped down software that you had to operate using a very

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cramped keyboard 2010 was the year that both the iPhone 4 and the original iPad

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were released and the public quickly got used to the idea that sleer devices like

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tablets and even some smartphones could replicate the functions of a netbook and

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perform them better especially as Netbook manufacturers were often trying

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to compete on price meaning they weren't exactly the best quality a lot of the

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time at the same time mainstream laptops were getting cheaper

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and lighter for example the 2012 Acer V5

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had a full-on core i5 and only weighed about 3 lb but could be found for less

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than 500 bucks the availability of laptops like these meant the netbook was

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getting squeezed from two directions until it didn't really have a role to

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fill in the marketplace anymore by 2013 manufacturers had essentially ceased

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Netbook production meaning the netbook didn't even last as long as the band n

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sync's original run so it was bye bye

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bye all right thanks for watching guys if you like this video hit like hit

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