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What about a Chromebook? The Samsung version costs $250 (and there is an Acer model for $199). http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/ http://www.google.

What about a Chromebook? The Samsung version costs $250 (and there is an Acer model for $199). http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/ http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/

andrewcooke 13y ago
the ubuntu on chromebook thread is what made me ask here, but the chromebook isn't a 10" screen, is it? i thought it was much larger. but i will check your link - i didn't realise there were multiple models. [update: the acer and samsung are 11.6" and i can find a bunch of similar notebooks with that size screen. what i really wanted was a 10" screen. but thanks!]
- dragonwriter 13y ago
  Okay, if you want 10" screen that's a bit hard to find, but "netbooks" were never limited to 10" screens (11.6" was a fairly common screen size for products sold as netbooks.) The role seems largely to have been taken over by Chromebooks -- Microsoft never really wanted the market to exist and the hardware vendors seem to prefer having an OS vendor to work with. But among notebooks (including ones that are similar to netbooks, whether they are sold as "netbooks" or not) 10" screen size seems to have died off because at that size, the preference is for tablets (possibly with keyboard cases to let them be used like a netbook) rather than traditional notebook form factor.
voidz 13y ago
No, because Google. Nuff said.
- thejosh 13y ago
  why?
  - iso-8859-1 13y ago
    While it may be efficient to have companies this large, it does not serve society's interests regarding privacy.
    - thejosh 13y ago
      OK, but using foreign hardware which you have no control over, made in chinese countries is safer?
      - iso-8859-1 13y ago
        Spy-hardware is nowhere nearly as prevalent as spyware (software), because you'd need hardware TCP/IP implementations and so on. I never heard of this happening to common people in real life. Unlike data privacy, which is almost too easy to disrespect.
        tptacek 13y ago
        Done a lot of research on backdoored hardware?

What about a Chromebook? The Samsung version costs $250 (and there is an Acer model for $199). http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/ http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/

andrewcooke 13y ago

the ubuntu on chromebook thread is what made me ask here, but the chromebook isn't a 10" screen, is it? i thought it was much larger. but i will check your link - i didn't realise there were multiple models. [update: the acer and samsung are 11.6" and i can find a bunch of similar notebooks with that size screen. what i really wanted was a 10" screen. but thanks!]

dragonwriter 13y ago
Okay, if you want 10" screen that's a bit hard to find, but "netbooks" were never limited to 10" screens (11.6" was a fairly common screen size for products sold as netbooks.) The role seems largely to have been taken over by Chromebooks -- Microsoft never really wanted the market to exist and the hardware vendors seem to prefer having an OS vendor to work with. But among notebooks (including ones that are similar to netbooks, whether they are sold as "netbooks" or not) 10" screen size seems to have died off because at that size, the preference is for tablets (possibly with keyboard cases to let them be used like a netbook) rather than traditional notebook form factor.

voidz 13y ago

No, because Google. Nuff said.

thejosh 13y ago
why?
- iso-8859-1 13y ago
  While it may be efficient to have companies this large, it does not serve society's interests regarding privacy.
  - thejosh 13y ago
    OK, but using foreign hardware which you have no control over, made in chinese countries is safer?
    - iso-8859-1 13y ago
      Spy-hardware is nowhere nearly as prevalent as spyware (software), because you'd need hardware TCP/IP implementations and so on. I never heard of this happening to common people in real life. Unlike data privacy, which is almost too easy to disrespect.
      - tptacek 13y ago
        Done a lot of research on backdoored hardware?