[netcan]

"A tablet when you want it, a PC when you need it"

I'm not sure if I'm being naive, but it seems to me that for a decade, the laptop market has had a ridiculous hole. There is a market for something which is not windows, at a sub $500-$600 price that is good. Tablet UI, desktop, whatever. Something that can run skype, whatsapp, tinder and the other network-effect apps that can replace their 3 year old home laptop and be an improvement.

How is it possible that all the mobile stuff from the last decade has not opened up real and substantial competition to Windows in that bracket.

Anyway, this looks easily worth €259 if think you may want one.

[takno]

Isn't this exactly what all those Chromebooks are? I mean they haven't exactly set the world on fire, but they exist.

[wazoox]

The Chromebooks replaced a bunch of Ubuntu-powered machines, and they are significantly inferior in all and every aspects, unless you're using Crouton or Gallium. File management is abysmal, and the OS is overall pretty buggy, in the last week I've met: impossible to clear browsing history, Chromecast extension keeps disappearing between reboots, problems with volume or brightness settings, Wifi woes...

Chrome OS feels really unpolished and a bit forgotten.

[mtw]

Why would you want tinder on a laptop?

I'd pay more for a device that allows you to code, write a doc, do basic photo processing, etc. In my case, I wouldn't bring my 15" macbook pro when travelling or going a business meeting, but this could go anywhere

[netcan]

I didn't really mean tinder. I just meant it as a shorthand for "software you run because other people run it."

[digi_owl]

Asus tried with the EEEPC. MS And Intel stepped in it to protect their ultraprotable markup.

[netcan]

They did. They did well. Lets have 9 more of those.

[wiml]

That's exactly what netbooks were, right? And Chromebooks are basically a resurrection of the same idea.

Tablets basically took that space, I think.

[Splines]

Can you elaborate more? Given your requirements any modern tablet should be a suitable fit. I have a 7" Android tablet that basically runs anything my phone can run with the upside that I can watch movies on it.

[matzipan]

It's called a Chromebook :P But I do get what you mean