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We used multiple of those in the robotics laboratory. There was a scene of people putting components and was great for adding sensors and so on with minimal effort.
My current laptop is an Apple Air M2. Samsung just preferred Microsoft money than competing. I believe it was the intention from the start.
Samensize as thr 701 but bigger screen. Powerful enough to rin Eclipse (i kid you not, did a lpt of development on that thing), massive battery life.
It was a great machine, rugged, took a hell of a beating.
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 don't think netbooks will be back. When you look at something like the Raspberry Pi 4, it's way more powerful than the old Eee 701 was and the Pi is a very small form factor. If a manufacturer thinks there is a market for it, they could encapsulate something like that in a keyboard and screen and give it Linux as an open OS. So why won't this happen you ask? Roughly speaking, that is exactly how netbooks started…
MS offered a massive discount on windows XP for netbooks as they saw the Linus writing on the wall.
Intel choked of supply for people who wanted to build more fully feature netbooks - thus the constrained specs on things like memory)
Current flag carrier is probably the GPD P2 Max from Sheznhen's Gamepro Devices, a firm who started out making linux-based handheld game consoles around 2013 then branched out into netbooks. The first GPD Pocket stuck a maxed-out version of the Intel netbook spec sheet in a machined aluminum body with a 7" screen (underpowered processor and all) but newer models include less underpowered devices. In particular the P2 Max has the same footprint as the Eee 701/901 models but is thinner and lighter -- at 650 grams and 1.4cm thick it's comparable to an iPad mini with a keyboard -- thanks to the metal unibody construction.
There are also competitors from elsewhere, notably One Netbook's One Netbook A1, which can be ordered with either an RS-232 port or gigabit ethernet if you work in a data center and want a portable terminal:
Both companies also do tiny gaming portables with Windows 10/11 and the ability to drive an external GPU.
So basically the netbook sector is alive and well, if yuo want something significantly smaller than an ultrabook.
Finally, if these models strike you as too pricey -- they're not aiming at the same price point as the Eee -- there are less powerful variants on the theme from Chuwi and various nameless Chinese vendors. Just poke around on AliExpress for a bit and you can find a 440 gram micro-laptop for a reasonable price (if you don't mind waiting a lot).
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I know it will never happen but I'd love for Apple to bring back 12 inch MacBook with the new M1 chip and the newer keyboard. It would be perfect for light note taking/ productivity on the go.
I'm not so sure Apple is stoked on bringing back the Macbook that was regarded as the worst by many.
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Nah, the 901 was where it was at! Atom chip, more usable screen size, 4GB system drive that was reasonably snappy. I used that thing for years, even ran OSX snow-leopard on it for a while.
I had both of those. I think I got the most use out of the 701. I took that thing everywhere and used it as my primary laptop. You can probably find pictures of me using it to give conference talks, sitting around at hackathons coding (with a HHKB attached), etc. I used Debian, and even had working WiFi. The 901 I bought later since it seemed like more specs would be better, it was big and cheap feeling. I do remembe…
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…
As a student the 701 was great. It fit in my (large) coat pocket, supported up to 2gb of ram, ran Xubuntu fine, was sturdier than my main laptop, had amazing battery life, and a real keyboard. It fit in that annoying niche between my tiny consumption-oriented phone and big work-oriented laptop, when I needed a full Linux environment for something but didn't mind if the command took a little while longer to type or ru…
Used to run Ubuntu on it - a little struggle to get wifi working, but apart from that it was great.