Asus Eee PC
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Asus Eee PC
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#2Loved my little Eee 901! It was the first computer I could treat as a casual accessory, not just a precious piece of precision equipment. I would take it anywhere - ski trips, the workshop, the pub; I wrote a fair bit of code on that machine while sitting at the bar down the street with a pint at my elbow. It was cheap enough that I figured I could just buy another one, if it broke, but it never did. I eventually graduated to second-hand Thinkpads, a habit I've maintained ever since.
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#3It's a shame that tablets have made this kind of form factor less desirable (also Microsoft did hobble them by reducing Windows licenses for them and thus the machines became less capable than the Linux powered ones). I'm a big fan of UMPCs - there's something very useful about having a physical keyboard so you can do serious work when needed but don't want to carry around a large laptop.
I've got a Chuwi Minibook (8inch screen) for that kind of usage and happily runs Linux on it nowadays (older versions of Ubuntu used to periodically hang which I believe was an issue with a driver for the disk).
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#4That was really a time to be alive. It was shortly after I moved out from my parents and my mother got one instead of a tablet. She's tech-savvy I have to say :)
All she wanted was an actually portable Windows device, and Asus delivered.
Celeron was as hot as iPhone for a moment then! There was a real hype around this device category ("Netbook" was the German marketing term)
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#5I dusted off my old 701 with Puppy Linux and it still boots. It's a shame that model is just too small to be useful to me.
It was perfect with fluxbox though (except for the size.)
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#6This puppy ran X on FreeBSD beautifully, touchpad and all. Very handy for toting around to work offsite.
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#7I didn't buy a Eee PC, instead picking up an Acer Aspire One. Loved that little thing – it was great on the train – and was very sad when Arch discontinied support for 32bit processors. By that time the netbook market had died a death. (I, too, went to second-hand Thinkpads at this point.)
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#8It’s a larger device, but I’m hoping the new Framework 12 comes in at a price point to fill the “cheap hacker laptop” category. The original eee was a fantastic “throw it in your bag & bring it anywhere”, and it all but required running Linux to get anything out of it.
There was a brief side line on netbooks where you could swap in a daylight-readable display of the sort used in the OLPCs, too, but I never had the confluence of money, time, and availability to make that happen.
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#9I dusted off my old 701 with Puppy Linux and it still boots. It's a shame that model is just too small to be useful to me. It was perfect with fluxbox though (except for the size.)
I still have several of the acre 7”-9” netbooks, waiting for a mission in life.
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#10I think mine had the CMOS battery fail and I never got around to replacing it. Just pulled it out of a Rubbermaid container last week and thought "man I should get this up and running again, what a fun little cyberdeck it was."
This machine was key to helping me learn Backtrack Linux (Kali's predecessor) and introduced me to Fluxbox.