Netbooks- A retrospective

Yes, I'm aware that it is May the fourth and that all the 'Star Wars' fans are going wild over this 'holiday', and here I am, hunched in front of my blue Toshiba NB305 netbook with Firefox open, writing a blog post. Like anybody is going to read it. Wait one moment, is this 2010?! A netbook in 2017?! Yes, so I will attempt a retrospective on netbooks. Fast forward to late 2010, the Apple iPad just hit the market, netbooks are all the rage, and one OS runs on them all- Windows 7 starter. As I pound this out on my netbook that runs the aforementioned OS, I realize that its been 7 years, I doesn't feel like that much time has passed, but it has. My netbook has 1GB of RAM, nothing special for the time, but now it is about as much as a $200 laptop has, I could upgrade to 2GB, but why now? While it is slow enough on the web, it does what I need my travel laptop to do- check my AOL and Google Mail inboxes, post to my blog, do light video editing, post to YouTube and read my local paper, it does that well enough; but in a couple of years this will be too obsolete to use, so I'll probably just use my iPad or my iPhone for these basics. Over the years we've forgotten the QWERTY keyboard (not the touch ones, the PHYSICAL ones) to the extent that I think anyone born in the last 6-7 years won't experience tactile feedback, or true feedback like on an IBM model M. That was my attempt at a retrospective on netbooks; in conclusion, we've lost many critical features that won't come back.