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 ...

or even Windows XP. One of, if not the earliest Netbook was the Asus Eee PC 701, which, despite being originally developed for emerging markets, went onto lead a successful product family in ...