What exactly was it that made netbooks so great, and where did they go? An Asus EEE PC shown here running Linux. You could run anything on them! Because they were real, full-fat computers.

When new, the netbook came with Windows 7 Starter Edition, which [Igor] replaced with Ubuntu Netbook Remix 10.04, which was its own adventure, but the netbook worked well and got dragged around ...

I’ve been writing about small computers since the original Asus Eee PC launched in the United States in 2007, showing that it was possible to make computers that were both ultraportable and ...