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Netbooks turned into chromebooks/ultrabooks though. Back then laptops were fat and heavy so in a way the entire market had to shift to make netbooks irrelevant.

iPad with an attachable keyboard is pretty close to a netbook to be fair (Microsoft even shipped a crippled version of Windows specifically for netbooks, of course it was still way less "crippled" than iOS/iPad OS is compared to macOS. Maybe Apple will fix that with touchscreen support on Mac and finally bring then closer to iPads, since that seems to be what everyone wants)