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I love netbooks. I regret selling mine after Archlinux went 64bit only. It was beautiful (all pearly white) and small and the keyboard was perfectly usable even for my fat fingers.
What's that apple doing there? That's vile.
If you think the battery isn't just dead dead dead and resetting the on-battery chip somehow can help, I'd like to know how, too.
Whatever happened to netbooks, they were sweet. The closest we got today is chromebooks and they can't do shit
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