{"id":32101,"date":"2013-01-06T22:40:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T05:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/06\/farewell-to-netbooks.html"},"modified":"2013-01-06T22:40:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T05:40:33","slug":"farewell-to-netbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/06\/farewell-to-netbooks.html","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to netbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I still find my Windows-based Asus Eee to be a great tool for NaNoWriMo write-ins &#8212; highly portable, WiFi-equipped, great battery life, and capable of running the yWriter software I use on my &quot;real&quot; machines.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But aside from that one month a year, it hardly gets any workout. \u00a0I have a &quot;real&quot; computer at home, at work, and when I am going some where else, I have either my smartphone or Bluetooth-keyboard-equipped Android tablet.<\/p>\n<p>Netbooks provided Windows platforms with a real keyboard and long battery life. \u00a0That was just not a large enough ecological niche to survive in.<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/108631503120169701251\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"108631503120169701251\">John E. Bredehoft<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/102559005933678451752'>Kevin Nunez<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>RIP Netbooks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images2-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/About\/General\/2011\/8\/11\/1313073364720\/A-businesswoman-uses-a-ne-007.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2012\/dec\/31\/netbooks-dead-2013'>Sayonara, netbooks: Asus (and the rest) won&#8217;t make any more in 2013<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA five-year lifespan turned out to be all that netbooks got. Acer and Asus are stopping manufacture from 1 January 2013 &#8211; ending what once looked like the future of computing\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/T3z8LWyR8Mo' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still find my Windows-based Asus Eee to be a great tool for NaNoWriMo write-ins &#8212; highly portable, WiFi-equipped, great battery life, and capable of running the yWriter software I use on my &quot;real&quot; machines.\u00a0 But aside from that one month a year, it hardly gets any workout. \u00a0I have a &quot;real&quot; computer at home, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/06\/farewell-to-netbooks.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Farewell to netbooks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44196,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/06\/the-evolving-digital-classroom.html","url_meta":{"origin":32101,"position":0},"title":"The evolving digital classroom","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 6-Aug-14 1:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A lot of schools, especially at higher grade levels, are finding that keyboards are critical. 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