[dijit]

I think you missed the point of a netbook.

Aside from Microsoft Office, the rest is workstation stuff, and Microsoft Office is pushing "web first" (at least if their pricing is to be believed, the lowest O365 subscriptions do not offer access to the native apps).

[alterom]

>I think you missed the point of a netbook.

I think you missed the point of the question.

> the rest is workstation stuff

Yes, I want to be able to run workstation stuff on the small computer I carry everywhere, so that I don't have to carry my workstation everywhere.

[dijit]

get a workstation laptop then?

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.

Your e-bike can’t tow a carriage either, that’s not strange.

[alterom]

You are taking crazy pills.

The netbook is a small and inexpensive machine that has enough specs to do the job.

And most computers today are beefed up enough to do the jobs I need them to do when I leave the house/office, even the cheapest ones.

Given the ability to run the software I use, my concerns are form factor, price, size, weight, ports, and battery life — in that order.

This little machine ticks all these boxes; very few others do.

Call it a "workstation laptop", and find me one in 10-11 inch size (with a screen that doesn't have 1 inch margins), has an amount of RAM that would be adequate 10 years ago (i.e. more than 4GB), has all the ports, and doesn't cost over $500 (so I won't have to care much when it invariably gets lost, stolen, dropped, etc).

[dijit]

netbooks could run a browser and an office suite… barely.

You’re asking for more than that based on the passage of time, but software got heavier faster than hardware kept up.