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- So this company sells a laptop that works as a browser for a online site and nothing else.

- great, i will buy one and waste a lot of time to make it work offline.

... genius. just genius.

I would just write it off as a good hack or something, but the chrome books have ZERO advantage. it's hardware is pure garbage if you compare it to anything on the same price range.

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Are there that many $250 laptops with 6 hours of battery life?

And you don't have to "waste a lot of time". Crouton (https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton) makes setting up and using a chrooted Ubuntu incredibly simple and straightforward, and there are other easy ways as well.

Any decent modern netbook will give you 5 or 6 hours of battery. The EeePCs claim something like 8 hours of battery life. The Chromebook isn't bad, but if you don't want ChromeOS, it's not fantastically better than the loads of other netbooks on the market.

I don't know of any company that's still making new netbooks, so unfortunately that option might not last too long. I like tablets, but I hate them for killing the netbook market!

Microsoft killed netbooks before tablets finished the job, by mandating 10" and specs that made them much more expensive.

They'll taake my 9" eee from my cold dead hands!

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