Netbooks Were the Pony Express of the 21st Century

Netbooks were a big part of the mobile world in 2008 and 2009. Their low-cost, light weight and relatively long battery life (for some of them) offset the sometimes pokey performance using Windows XP and downright awful performance when using Windows Vista (Windows 7, by the way, tends to run just fine on these netbooks). When Apple introduced is iPad in April 2010, its $499 starting price, rich app library, outstanding battery life (10 hours), and excellent performance (for the functions it was capable of performing) pulled the rug out from under the netbook market.

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