[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.