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Old Feb 12, 2016 | 11:54 pm
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Originally Posted by gfunkdave
I didn't know they still made netbooks!
They stopped calling cheap small notebooks "netbooks" several years ago, but they never stopped making crappy, inexpensive, low-end notebooks.

And ChromeBooks, which are a slightly less crappy way of making cheap notebook without Windows.

The 10.1 size is mostly dead; virtually all of the cheaper machines are 11.6" and there are a few 10.8" models.

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Three machines worth looking at:
* HP Stream 11 (the closest to a traditional netbook, and dang cheap - the 32gb eMMC storage is really, horrifically slow.)
* Dell Inspiron 11 (although it's technically a 2-in-1)
* Lenovo Thinkpad 11e (already mentioned)

Originally Posted by Error 601
I'm not sure how else to describe these little 11.6" Atom Windows notebooks.
The term is as good as any.
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