The mid 2000s were really a time of change and tech commodification. From a german perspective, it started with the first "1000€ Laptop". The first new decent

The mid 2000s were really a time of change and tech commodification. From a german perspective, it started with the first "1000€ Laptop". The first new decently sized, decently specced Laptop selling for a price of less than 1000€. Later came the Netbooks. That put portable general purpose computers for the first time into the hands of students who had trouble affording a "real" Laptop. You could immediately see the change in the university library and computer pools. After my "regular" Laptop broke I was in a bit of bind financially, but was glad to be able to afford a Samsung NC10. And I must say I really liked it. I cold take it everywhere. It was powerful enough for text processing, powerpointing, webbrowsing and older games. Keyboard and screen where ok, but coming from a resolution of 1400x1050 on my old Laptop I especially mised vertical screen real estate.