Re: Imagine a netbook with a SIM card. Bingo
And I remember when a netBook was a Psion machine!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_netBook
The EEEPC was well known, but Sony amongst others had been making small x86 Windows notebooks (and even weird things with half the keyboard on either side of the screen) for a few years before. I think it was the use of Linux to enable otherwise slow cheap hardware that initially led to Netbooks, until more RAM and newer CPUs made Windows less slow on them. Many weren't used for much more than web browsing, hence the article drawing the parallel.
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