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Is there a modern 5-inch netbook?

Rakehellion

Rakehellion

Lifer
I've been looking for a tiny machine with a fast processor to install Mac OS on, but apparently the netbook is dead.

What's a boy to do?
 
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zerocool84 said:
I don't think there was one that small
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Not to mention that even if a 5" netbook existed, it'd be running an atom processor, which is pretty much the opposite of a "fast processor." Of course, a full desktop on a 5" display would be insane as well so I do doubt they even came to market.
 
rockyct said:
Not to mention that even if a 5" netbook existed, it'd be running an atom processor, which is pretty much the opposite of a "fast processor." Of course, a full desktop on a 5" display would be insane as well so I do doubt they even came to market.
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All netbooks have Atom procesors. :colbert:
 
A 5 inch netbook? Link one? That's the size of a phone. That makes no sense whatsoever. I own a netbook and the screen size is 10 inches which is plenty small already.
 
The Asus aiieeeeeeee! was 7". I still have one in all its 800 x 480 screen and Celeron 900 MHz CPU glory.

There might have been some Dynamism.com imports for $1,200+ with 5" screens, I vaguely recall Fuji making some high-end high-price mini notebooks.
 
lenovo x131e is probably your best bet. 11.6" is probably the smallest screen size you'll find these days. I think you could get an asus eee with a 7" screen once, but it only ran linux (arm processor i think).
 
The EEE was smaller than 10" but it was super slow. I replaced the version of linux on it repeatedly trying to get it to run just a little bit faster for a friend.
 
If I'm buying 11" I might as well get a MacBook Air. I want something that'll fit in my pocket, so anything bigger than 7" is no good.

Come on, they made plenty of tiny netbooks back in the day!

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There was an HTC thingy too.

My recommendation would be a Galaxy note and foldable USB/BT keyboard. With the proper set of apps, a kickstand and a flat surface you should have something comparable, except you'll be on Android instead of MacOS.

The MacOS part is a pipe dream in any case, as you just won't be able to get the drivers required for the device to be supported.
 
just use a phone with a bluetooth keyboard.

Those things you posted belong in the same graveyard as this:
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Looking at these options you're starting to run into the problem of paying $600 for something that is old, slow, probably used, and small vs just spending the $999 to get a MBA.
 
What happened is that the netbook flopped. They just aren't very good and people have moved on to ultrabooks, tablets, and larger phones.
 
AViking said:
Looking at these options you're starting to run into the problem of paying $600 for something that is old, slow, probably used, and small vs just spending the $999 to get a MBA.
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You could make the same argument against buying a MacBook Air, but I need what I need and nothing else will quite do.
 
Rakehellion said:
If I'm buying 11" I might as well get a MacBook Air. I want something that'll fit in my pocket, so anything bigger than 7" is no good.

Come on, they made plenty of tiny netbooks back in the day!

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Oh god those are horrible. Why the hell do you need a desktop OS with a 5" screen?
 
rockyct said:
Oh god those are horrible. Why the hell do you need a desktop OS with a 5" screen?
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Hence why they aren't made any more. 😉

Plenty of ~5in tablets though from Chinese vendors. Smartphones kinda usurped the uber-small tablet market as well.
 
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