Netbooks were a class of tiny laptops which hit their peak over a decade ago, with the idea being that you could use the Internet and do your computing on the move with ease. Unfortunately manufacturers were scared of them eating their profits from bigger computers, and they were invariably built to a very disappointing spec. That doesn’t lessen the appeal of small form factor laptops though, and [bob-foss] is here with a simple hack to make one.

He’s taken a hinged keyboard case made for one of the previous generations of iPad Mini, and paired it with a high-end Lenovo gaming tablet by way of a 3D printed replacement for the original Apple-grabber. We said it was a simple hack and it is, but it’s no less elegant for that as the detail is what matters. This isn’t a mess-of-wires cyberdeck, instead it’s a machine you could pull out on a train and get some work done.

Meanwhile, if you’d like to take a wallow in what that netbook thing was all about, we took a look at the phenomenon back in 2020.

Another year, another IFA conference. How-To Geek is scouring the halls of Messe Berlin to uncover all the new innovative tech at IFA 2026. Through our search, we've managed to go hands-on with the slimmest portable SSD of all time, super-long-lasting hybrid batteries, the first batch of RTX Spark laptops, and more.

Lenovo’s $700 IdeaPad Vibe rivals the MacBook Neo with more ports, chip choices, and upgrade options, but the base 8GB RAM model has limits.

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Lenovo's new Yoga tablets share 4K displays and seven major Android upgrades, but performance, size, battery, memory, weight, and price separate them.

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Lenovo’s $700 IdeaPad Vibe rivals the MacBook Neo with more ports, chip choices, and upgrade options, but the base 8GB RAM model has limits.

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Lenovo's new Yoga tablets share 4K displays and seven major Android upgrades, but performance, size, battery, memory, weight, and price separate them.

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A newly surfaced Lenovo design points to a ThinkBook with a horizontally expanding screen, potentially bringing the company’s ultrawide rollable experiments to its productivity-focused laptop family.