A look back at the netbook explosion of the late 2000s and how iPads, Chromebooks, and appliance-like computers took the netbook’s place (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

A glance again on the netbook explosion of the late 2000s and the way iPads, Chromebooks, and appliance-like computer systems took the netbook’s place — The sound of a gradual processor screaming — There’s an Apple occasion subsequent week, and it is wanting pretty doubtless that we’ll see up to date fashions of the iPad Professional and maybe the iPad Mini.