[Jeremy] had an ASUS EEE PC 1000HE netbook on his hands which had ... so he had to desolder it and deadbugged it onto his programmer. Using a few Linux-based flashing tools, he was able to ...

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.