The ASUS Eee PC and the netbook revolution
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Before Chromebooks, before the iPad, there was the Eee PC.
  • keepcarrot [she/her]English
    1•2 years ago

    I miss mine. Good battery life. Big hard disk. Chugged a bit on google docs with large documents. Hot processor. Liero

    • @[email protected]
      1•2 years ago

      I remember running lxde and xfce on my eee at various points. If lxqt still supports 32 bit machines, I bet it would still work okay.

  • @[email protected]
    10•2 years ago

    I used to play around with an original Eee PC 700 quite a bit.
    The most interesting experiment was installing Debian without X and using that as a desktop OS.
    I used links2 in framebuffer mode to browse the internet, alpine for mail, cmus for music, fbi to view images, mplayer to watch movies, mc for file management and tmux for multi-tasking. It worked surprisingly well and solved the issue of the tiny storage, anemic processor, low RAM and small screen, but only after you’ve memorized all the keyboard commands.

  • Papamousse
    10•2 years ago

    I still have my HP Mini311, it has a 11.6" screen, 1366x768, discrete GPU, can decode 1080p in hardware and output on tv via HDMI. In 2009 it was a beast!

    I changed the 2.4bg with a 2.4/5n wifi, upgraded to 3GB of ddr3 ram, SSD, overclocked to 2GHz, and installed MX Linux on it, works perfect.

  • @[email protected]English
    3•2 years ago

    I still have my white 701 that I put a black keyboard on and soldered in a Bluetooth module. Some of the most fun I’ve had using a computer and I wish the form factor was still a thing.

  • @[email protected]English
    2•2 years ago

    I wonder how alpine linux would hold up on one of these, as a desktop of course. Alpine is ment for routers so therotically it should work really well.