I was thinking more along the lines of chromebooks becoming better netbooks; the next generation. Instead their limitation built in to the OS makes them not worthy successors. I had two Acer netbooks and although tiny and underpowered (at least by today’s standards) they could do anything a regular laptop could, just in a smaller footprint.

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I remember the netbook, specifically the Asus Eee. They were lethargic with keyboards that were only 85% the size of regular keyboards. Their installed Linux distributions left a lot to be desired, even for that period of time. I eventually switched to Chrome OS in or around 2012 right after it was released as a more suitable OS for the netbooks at the time.

This Lenovo has a backlit keyboard, 128GB SSD, 8GB of ram, and an 11th Gen Intel quad-core i3-1115G4 @ 3.00GHz. It’s speedy with a full sized keyboard, and if I can’t upgrade to bullseye I’m quite capable of living within buster. I even have Visual Studio Code installed and running, using it for Python hacking. My only complaint about the Debian VM is I can only see USB devices plugged into it, which given the other benefits of this machine, isn’t something I won’t loose any sleep over. For what it can do this Debian is more than complete enough for me.

Compared to what I have today in the Lenovo, I would never go back to any of the netbooks from the last decade. Never.

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