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Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC” (2021)

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Re: Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC” (2021)

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Post by squarefoot »

TheCycoONE wrote: post #48
maicro wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll just throw this out there - GalliumOS works fairly well to convert a Chromebook into a full-fat Linux laptop. I've only installed it on one, but the process wasn't too hard. The end result is kinda hacky, and from what I recall there's not much development being done on Gallium of late, but it's still an option.

GalliumOS works for the x86 chromebooks. For a handful of arm chromebooks archlinuxarm works reasonably well. I bought a Samsung Chromebook Plus (1st gen) before covid when I was taking the train every day. I find it to be a great carry with me device for note taking, web browsing, coding, and light gaming when combined with a tiling window manager. It certainly feels like the netbook promise of the late 2000s. I hav…

I wonder what's the purpose of GalliumOS. After the usual unlocking, I've installed Manjaro on several 1st and 2nd generation Chromeboxes with no problems whatsoever; everything supported out of the box, and I would expect Debian or Ubuntu to work as well. Are there any incompatibilities with newer generation models so that a dedicated distro is needed?

Re: Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC” (2021)

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Post by notyourwork »

Sunspark wrote: post #15

The Eee PC 701 was amazing. It was really good for students who needed something small and light that they could take to the library, etc. The alternative back then was a heavy power-hungry full-size laptop. This is before all the stuff we take for granted today like tablets, etc. The Dell Inspiron Mini 9 was the next really good netbook. After those, Apple introduced the Macbook Air which came in a 11.6" size. Even…

The Asus was perfect during undergraduate, in fact I actually mined bitcoin on it in a class when we first heard of cryptocurrency.

Pretty wild stuff, I miss that bugger. Only downside was the ram soldered to the board preventing upgrade.

Re: Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC” (2021)

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Post by chx »

p1necone wrote: post #23

I used one of these for uni for a while. The small screen is really not a barrier for just taking notes in class and the portability is so much better than a regular sized laptop (and the size makes it practically indestructible too). It also makes for a surprisingly adequate dev environment if you get used to switching between virtual desktops for extra screen space. Using an iPad instead of one of these would have…

one mix yoga 2s

few years old yes but still the only 7" non-Atom non-eMMC laptop. There's no other.

Re: Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC” (2021)

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Post by themodelplumber »

Sunspark wrote: post #15

The Eee PC 701 was amazing. It was really good for students who needed something small and light that they could take to the library, etc. The alternative back then was a heavy power-hungry full-size laptop. This is before all the stuff we take for granted today like tablets, etc. The Dell Inspiron Mini 9 was the next really good netbook. After those, Apple introduced the Macbook Air which came in a 11.6" size. Even…

You got me thinking...I still run my MSI Wind netbook (RIP Zareason!), and it's worked great with both Haiku and Q4OS recently.

The keyboard is a near-disaster in some ways but after configuring a bunch of workarounds it's reasonably comfortable.

I took it on a trip to Sicily soon after purchasing and have fond memories of using it and my n810 "media center" for that trip. I didn't have WiFi at the guest house where I stayed so I ended up getting my work done from the front of a tiny cafe in Noto, stooped over the tiny screen, but very much geeking out.

The form factor is still really kind of cool when I'm in the mood to play with it, but once anything with cords needs to attach to it, it starts to look kind of overwhelmed IMO.

Still, to this day I'd rather build stuff on it than on my phone. But that probably has a lot to do with things like muscle memory, maybe in addition to the fact that a properly-configured desktop OS (esp. with keyboard workarounds) is just something else when you're ready to work.

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Post by rzzzt »

kqr wrote: post #98
Aeolun wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t really have to reboot my M1 ever (short of updates), so booting is more or less equal to flipping open the screen.

But then it's not booting. Waking up from sleep/hibernation has always been fast.

Would you call "booting" what Windows does with Fast Startup enabled, then? It is half resume from a hibernation image (kernel and system services), half going through the regular booting process (rest of userland).

Re: Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC” (2021)

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Post by Foobar8568 »

I remember that I was tuning a 1TB sql server database on a 10" eeepc/USB disk to prove a client they badly misconfigured their server, I was getting 10times higher txn performance

Started with 701 with a 3g key, continued with 10" one and then in 2011, the MacBook air 11",these years were peak IT, dev and fun for me.

Light, powerful enough, connected and the pricing wasn't too bad (hi2u Sony books at 2k+)

Re: Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC” (2021)

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Post by Cockbrand »

grecy wrote: post #75
Sunspark wrote: post #15

The Eee PC 701 was amazing. It was really good for students who needed something small and light that they could take to the library, etc. The alternative back then was a heavy power-hungry full-size laptop. This is before all the stuff we take for granted today like tablets, etc. The Dell Inspiron Mini 9 was the next really good netbook. After those, Apple introduced the Macbook Air which came in a 11.6" size. Even…

I ran MacOS X on my Dell Mini 9, it was a close to flawless as you could get back then in such a tiny portable. From memory, sleep was the only thing that didn't work 100% correctly - I always just shut it down.

Same here, on an Eee PC 901. It was a bit slow compared to a real Mac, but ran surprisingly well, resulting in quite a fun little machine with OS X.

Re: Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC” (2021)

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Post by pjmlp »

My 2009 Asus 1215B is still going quite alright, I needed to upgrade it to 8GB and replaced the HDD with a SDD, and in what concerns its use as travel netbook, it still manages to do its job.

Just don't ask him to do Rust compilations, or new GCC releases, unless plugged into mains.

However when it dies, I will most likely replace it for a 2-1 laptop, or a plain Air.

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Post by quadrifoliate »

I lived through this era as a student on a relatively tight budget, and must have been one of the few people who was never tempted to get a netbook instead of putting Linux on my regular 15" laptop.

The tiny screen size was the deal-breaker, and a complete no-go from my point of view. I don't understand how anyone got a decent amount of work done on these tiny netbooks.

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