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I hate my netbook, it cost $1,000 despite a similar speced netbook costed $300

WHY DO THEY EXIST???

This netbook struggles with web browsing!!! 

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Why would you spend that much on a netbook

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I hate my netbook, it cost $1,000 despite a similar speced netbook costed $300

WHY DO THEY EXIST???

This netbook struggles with web browsing!!! 

 

How did you manage to spend 1K on a netbook?

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Ya got ripped off. Netbooks are the $300 "solution" from wal-mart for people who can't afford a real computer. I'd rather have a Raspberry Pi than a netbook.... You can basically only type stuff or watch porn

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Netbooks haven't been a thing for a long time, they were replaced by Chromebooks and Windows tablets and rightfully so. I bought a WinBook TW802 a few days ago, it's nifty to say the least. Or at least I didn't think they were a thing.

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Whoa, I didn't know they were still around. I thought they were completely replaced by tablets, Chromebooks, and smartphones.

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If you paid $1000 for a netbook you are the problem, not the netbook.

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Why would you spend that much on a netbook

 

How did you manage to spend 1K on a netbook?

 

Ya got ripped off. Netbooks are the $300 "solution" from wal-mart for people who can't afford a real computer. I'd rather have a Raspberry Pi than a netbook.... You can basically only type stuff or watch porn

I had to get it for school. they had a deal with deal so they so them dirt cheap and sell them to the students (Make them compulsory)

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Whoa, I didn't know they were still around. I thought they were completely replaced by tablets, Chromebooks, and smartphones.

It is 4 years old and ran like shit when i got it!

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I had a netbook. This was before tablets were popular circa 2007 or so and I pretty much wanted to use it as a tablet for my D&D sessions since I coded a macro enabled excel sheet with most of the 3.5 ed rules and stuff...then I stopped gaming and just sold it.

 

Now I am looking to get a tablet for reading though I might just go with a 5.5 to 6" phone instead and use that: kinda love to just go out with a single device on my pocket and nothing on my hands.

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It is 4 years old and ran like shit when i got it!

 

Sounds about right.

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Ya got ripped off. Netbooks are the $300 "solution" from wal-mart for people who can't afford a real computer. I'd rather have a Raspberry Pi than a netbook.... You can basically only type stuff or watch porn

You just described what all average users do with their computers

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I had to get it for school. they had a deal with deal so they so them dirt cheap and sell them to the students (Make them compulsory)

Did you have to get that specific one? If not, you should have chosen something different

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The cheapest thing you can get these days are a 2in1 tablet netbooks that are decent.

I got a 350$ cad laptop with a 5th gen i3, 768p screen, 4gb ram and a 1tb hdd and it performs great

Really ultrabooks are what netbooks should have been

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Did you have to get that specific one? If not, you should have chosen something different

I had to get one of THEIR Dell Latitude 2120

Why did you just say fuck that and go buy your own.

Because they said NO!!!

and said go to another school instead if you don't want that computer

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Chromebooks, hint hint nudge nudge

 

idk if you'd count that as a netbook but the samsung ones are slow as fuuuuuuuck

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I had to get one of THEIR Dell Latitude 2120

Because they said NO!!!

and said go to another school instead if you don't want that computer

You should have go told them to fuck themselves

But if you take them to court (which I recommend), maybe leave that part out

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Netbooks at proper netbook price are actually great for schools. I have a Stream 11, it's $300 it lasts all day on battery, it supports dual band, it's relatively drop proof, thin and light.

Basically, great concept, the older ones sucked though.

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Netbooks are handy for people who rely on the portability of a machine. The fact they can squeeze it into the smallest of bags makes it an appropriate choice.

 

I picked up a shitty intel Atom netbook that had a single core atom @ 1.4ghz and a gig of ram, chucked a second hand 60gb SSD in it and whacked debian onto it and it was a relatively quick little machine that would be perfect for the average user (aside from the 10" screen, but it had a HDMI out to compensate).

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What kind of piece of shit school is this.

A Catholic school.

The cheapest Private school in my town

and the public school is where toilets die because of concrete

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