I had one. IMO they were crap, and died out for good reason. Cheap, but not good value because you never wanted to use one if you could avoid it.
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#12Had one. Price was good, but the resolution made it nearly unusable with most DE's, and I don't think I ever got the nvidia card working on Linux.
Great concept though. I wish the format would have stuck around. I'd like a premium version in that same size.
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#13I miss these. I had a netbook, used it for years with Linux. Loved it. Took it everywhere, even got the battery upgrade so it would last 20h on a single charge.
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#14Mine is currently running 32bit Debian. Still runs fine, and can stream video from the big players despite how ancient it is.
When things go wrong, the Eee is the backup to step in and fix things.
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#15I still keep an eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee pc running xp for burning roms.
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#16I picked up an Acer aspire one on clearance for a low price.
I added 4gb of ram to it and an SSD and it's ok for light loads.
It uses some AMD processor that has no cache or something ridiculous. C-50 Or C-52?
It also has a sticker for "HD Internet".
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#17My beloved Asus 1215B finally gave the ghost last year, it served me well for travelling since 2009.
Nowadays this form factor is gone, it got injured with how Microsoft tackled the market they were initially losing, and got the final blow when tablets with detachable keyboards became widely adopted.
That is what normies are using all over the world in coffee shops, if not a regular laptop.
Likewise, now a Samsung tablet has taken over the role I used my netbook for.
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#18I owned the eee 701 and it was fun using it in cafés. I graduated to the Acer 1410. Now I have a used Lenovo OG bought for $80 but its use case is similar to the netbook.
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#19I still have a netbook. It's not an Asus Eee but a Samsung N102SP.
I don't really know if there's any way I can use it for anything nowadays. Windows is out of the question - it originally shipped with Windows 7 Starter, which it was already struggling with, to be honest.
I tried installing Linux on it, and it turned out that it requires a proprietary graphics driver, support for which was dropped from the kernel at some point...
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#20I picked up an Acer aspire one on clearance for a low price. I added 4gb of ram to it and an SSD and it's ok for light loads. It uses some AMD processor that has no cache or something ridiculous. C-50 Or C-52? It also has a sticker for "HD Internet".
I have an AA1 somewhere, mine has an Intel Atom.
Worked great until I updated Linux to discover that I could no longer install the stupid proprietary driver for the graphics, so lost hardware accelerated graphics. Was never able to downgrade successfully.
I've been idly looking for something modern to replace it but seems like there's nothing like that on the market now.