Netbooks had one enormous advantage: they were cheap. That also means they are expendable. I used one (Acre Aspire One) as my mobile workhorse for quite some time and it never felt unusable. Of course, the tests an i5 runs in 30 seconds the Atom runs in 2 minutes, but you can spend that time thinking what to do next.

Now you can get a reasonable entry level laptop for more or less the same price, so, even if the name is no longer a thing, the product is still quite available.

The NC10 was a great device for its time -- lightweight, long battery life, nearly full size keyboard. I used it as my primary computing device for years, and would still be using it had it not suffered the pinched display cable problem, and I broke the hinge trying to fix it.

What killed the netbook was the ultrabook -- similar weight and battery life, but with a larger display and full size keyboard.