You are taking crazy pills. The netbook is a small and inexpensive machine that has enough specs to do the job. And most computers today are beefed up enough

You are taking crazy pills. The netbook is a small and inexpensive machine that has enough specs to do the job. And most computers today are beefed up enough to do the jobs I need them to do when I leave the house/office, even the cheapest ones. Given the ability to run the software I use, my concerns are form factor, price, size, weight, ports, and battery life — in that order. This little machine ticks all these boxes; very few others do. Call it a "workstation laptop", and find me one in 10-11 inch size (with a screen that doesn't have 1 inch margins), has an amount of RAM that would be adequate 10 years ago (i.e. more than 4GB), has all the ports, and doesn't cost over $500 (so I won't have to care much when it invariably gets lost, stolen, dropped, etc).