Marc:
Netbooks have come and gone from my mind repeatedly over the years. Working with students carrying 17-inch plus ‘laptops’ that consume more desk space than an actually desktop and colleagues with steely gun-metal gray MacBooks. It was in looking at the laptops around me that I finally figured out what best describes netbooks: ‘comfy’. They were these little, modest machines with rounded edges (in every sense of the word) that offered an approachable way to get a hold of a portable computer for many. At the time they were popular, you probably already had a home desktop machine so these hardback-sized companions offered a way to bring a little bit of computing with you.
It’d be nice to see that again.
I never owned a netbook, but they always seemed like neat little devices. The closest I’ve come to one was the 11-inch MacBook Air. I bought one in 2011 and from that point forward it’s been my favorite Apple computer of all time. I’m using one from 2015 now.
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Previously the computer name “MacBookAir” was found as a computer name on Adium’s publicly available user statistics. Shortly thereafter the MacBook Air was announced.