I loved my 701. Could take it anywhere, attach external monitor and keyboard if needed. I got it out again a few months ago and now my 8yo uses it.
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)
#62While I (like many!) loved my Eee PC...
>This Eee PC ran a “Pine Trail” processor so Joanna photographed it with pine branches. This was state-of-the-art tech blogging in 2009.
...it bothers me more than expected that the picture shows spruce branches.
#NotAllConifers
Re: Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC” (2021)
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the most accessible small form factor Linux box right now is the Steam Deck. You're paying a bit more for game controller hardware if you just want to use it as a workstation, but it is just Linux under the hood and looks to be a pretty neat cyberdeck-like device.
I recently learned however that the SteamOS desktop is built on a read-only image, with the expectation software will be installed via flatpak. It is apparently possible to turn the read-only protection off to use pacman or your own thing, but anything you do may be wiped out on the next OS update. See: https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/671A-4453-E8D2-32... I believe it was mentioned in a previous story that…
Other immutable state distros such as Fedora Silverblue and openSUSE MicroOS Desktop offer a “toolbox” environment that runs as a Flatpak with relaxed restrictions for development tasks. Is something like that an option on SteamOS 3?
Re: Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC” (2021)
#64Don't remember which one i had, but my eeePC was awesome... I even could turn it into a hackintosh.
Re: Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC” (2021)
#65I still have my MSI Wind. Great little machine. It runs Emacs and a compiler comfortably, so it's still useful. I prototyped a game on it over a series of subway trips to/from work. One time a pretty girl at a bar saw it with its little retro Window Maker desktop, and told me I should buy Apple products because they're "more digital". I guess netbooks are considered "retro" computing devices now, huh. Damn, I'm old.
"More digital", love it.
Ten years ago I had a conversation with an 18 year old who's father ran a phone shop. Of course she always had the latest and greatest phone. And she mentioned her phone was "elegant".
I asked for a definition of "elegant" and without skipping a beat she returned: "Shiny. Electronic. Made in the last 6 months."
And so I learned elegance had a timespan.
Re: Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC” (2021)
#66The 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 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.
Re: Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC” (2021)
#67I still have my MSI Wind. Great little machine. It runs Emacs and a compiler comfortably, so it's still useful. I prototyped a game on it over a series of subway trips to/from work. One time a pretty girl at a bar saw it with its little retro Window Maker desktop, and told me I should buy Apple products because they're "more digital". I guess netbooks are considered "retro" computing devices now, huh. Damn, I'm old.
My MSI Wind seemed like the perfect candidate for Alpine Linux. Alas, the GPU is so old that hardly anything but a terminal starts without crashing in Wayland.
Re: Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC” (2021)
#68The eee PC was also the original netbook used for the "booting Linux in five seconds" presentation at the first Linux Plumbers Conference: https://lwn.net/Articles/299483/ That presentation inspired a whole wave of boot optimizations across the industry, that recalibrated the expectations for what "boot fast" meant. If you look at some systems at the time, "boots in 30 seconds" was a selling point . Today, you can re…
> Today, you can reasonably expect a system to be done booting in a second, with the slowest portion of booting any secure system being the user typing a passphrase.
What sort of machines boot in one second? My 12-core Linux desktop with one of the fastest nvme drives on the market sure doesn’t. I’d guess more like 15-20s. I don’t think my wife’s M1 Mac is at all close to 1s either, unless you count waking from sleep.
I haven’t paid much attention to it, but I feel like people simply restart their computers less often than they did 15 years ago, so boot time isn’t the most compelling metric when selling machines these days.
Re: Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC” (2021)
#69The eee PC was also the original netbook used for the "booting Linux in five seconds" presentation at the first Linux Plumbers Conference: https://lwn.net/Articles/299483/ That presentation inspired a whole wave of boot optimizations across the industry, that recalibrated the expectations for what "boot fast" meant. If you look at some systems at the time, "boots in 30 seconds" was a selling point . Today, you can re…
If only my Dell could figure out how to transition out of a low power state and hand over control to the OS within 30 seconds.
Re: Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC” (2021)
#70I still have one at home, was the last netbook my mom used before passed away. She loved it, and was running debían with life. Really amazing little piece of hardware.