"Tablets killed netbooks" is a meme that gets often repeated, but is really misleading. You're definitely right that vendors have moved on from netbooks and ar

"Tablets killed netbooks" is a meme that gets often repeated, but is really misleading. You're definitely right that vendors have moved on from netbooks and are putting their energy now into tablets. But that doesn't mean tablets have replaced netbooks. Netbooks have a bunch of use cases that don't apply to tablets and vice versa. I bought my good old eeePC netbook mainly for: - Typing on the go. It's much lighter than a regular laptop (was back then), and the model I have has a very good, almost-full-size keyboard. - Its unprecedented battery life (again, back then). I could even forget the cable at home, and it would last the whole day. - Meetings. For some reason, we have lots of meetings in my field, and almost everybody brings their laptop (to make notes, follow the slides, etc.). I found the eeePC ideal because it needs no cable (no crawling on the floor) and is small and unconspicuous. If I'm using my notebook in a meeting, at least I don't want to hide behind it. Compare with a tablet: I can hardly type anything else than text messages on touchscreens. And while laptops are for some reason socially accepted in meetings, I couldn't show up with a tablet. Everybody would think I was just playing. (That's changing slowly, however). Finally, the biggest difference is that a netbook is a general purpose PC. I can run all programs I need for work on it. That doesn't work on locked-down tablets. When Windows 8 came out, I was really hoping for cheap 10-inch Atom or ARM tablets with the nice keyboard covers (and an unlocked OS so I could actually do work on them). Such a tablet would really be a worthy netbook replacement.