Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC” (2021)
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#2I still use OpenBSD x86 on an Atom netbook.
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#3They're all chromebooks now
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#4I have one. Best kitchen computer ever. About 8 yrs worth of use for 99 bux. Battery is bad now but it's too expensive to replace. It might be time to replace.
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#5My EEE was probably my best laptop purchase ever.
Dual core atom with 2GB memory, became my BYOD dev machine at work (with external keyboard and monitor, of course). Handled dev tasks in Ubuntu like a charm, weighted almost nothing.
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#6I still have my EEE Pc 701 from 2007. Still works well with 2GB of RAM, Void Linux+DWM and an extended filesystem in the SD Card. Good for experimenting and for note taking with Emacs+org roam or Zim. Still good for reading wikipedia or stack overflow articles with netsurf or seamonkey(sites with JavaScript). Remember searching open or crackable wifi networks with the little fellow in the palm of my hand. I have another with NetBSD, works well too.
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#7Funny how bad the Engadget/Verge crowd are at technology that is not 100% mainstream?
The top comments are much more insightful.
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#8I have a slow-ass Eee PC rusting in a closet somewhere. What can I do with it? I already have a much-less-slow Surface Go as the family/kitchen computer.
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#9I still have my EEE Pc 701 from 2007. Still works well with 2GB of RAM, Void Linux+DWM and an extended filesystem in the SD Card. Good for experimenting and for note taking with Emacs+org roam or Zim. Still good for reading wikipedia or stack overflow articles with netsurf or seamonkey(sites with JavaScript). Remember searching open or crackable wifi networks with the little fellow in the palm of my hand. I have anot…
In some ways that era of netbooks felt like the glory days of creative computing devices and OSes. Intel created this really lovely UI on top of Linux called Moblin. My mom ran Jolicloud, which was built around webapps. A bunch of netbooks were coming out with their own Linux flavors to the mass market and webOS was right around the corner.
I'm going to say this with a straight face: if only more people would have had better taste I think we might have inherited a beautiful future of free and open computing.
The Eee PC 701 was cheap and came with Linux OOTB. Now we have to spend thousands of dollars for underpowered garage projects like the MNT Reform or else pay about what we did for the 701 for underpowered laptops that will never get their bugs fixed like the Pinebook.
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#10I 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.