My netbook got me through my deployment… then I used a TF-101 for college.. was awesome having the ASUS transformer keyboard for notes

I remember my eeePC 701 fondly. The battery life was exceptional. It even was my ONLY computer for a year.

I think the reason Hasbro's lawyers attempted to sue Asus for the uses of the Transformer Prime name was because the cartoon series Transformers Prime had started airing in early 2011 or so so they probably saw that is risk of brand confusion.

Unless the antenna is using some kind of collection cone and/or Isolation barrier, pointing the antenna in the opposite direction is going to have the same effect as pointing them directly at the transmission source.

Maybe the scammers are flat-earthers?

I got an ASUS EEE PC netbook as a graduation present in 2010. 2 GB of RAM, Windows 7 starter for the operating system. Family wanted me to dispose of it a year or two ago, but I refused because it was a present from my late-grandmother.

NetBook : Internet Laptop AI PC : AI integrated Laptop 🤔 I wonder...

The EeePad's back looks like Etherium

I still have a similar netbook my parents have bought for me back then. Surprisingly it still turns on and works so sometimes I use them just for nostalgia. Sadly this company didn't survived and died with netbook market

The Eee Pee Cee

Isn't Amazon getting these things dumped back into their laps?

I have two Eee PCs, one from the early days and one from the late days that incorporates an Android tablet/screen. Good fun, slap Linux on them and give them to the kids or keep them as backup machines

Its smaller than you swollen head.

Still have my 901, the modding scene back then was really interesting and a huge part of the eeepcs popularity imo

Wish you opened up the antennas

Thank you for your review I got scammed by the photo stick. I thought this photo stick was great. Nope.. tried to use it, was a scam

I had one. It was a nice way to be online everywhere before I got a smartphone. Also it was my first Linux computer.

12:47 the door covering the I/O of my Eee Box has long since dissapeared too.

I still have and use my 1001P Eee PC - 2GB RAM, 500GB HDD, Windows XP, and Serious Sam hovers around 60fps. Certainly not a daily driver, but it’s a great tiny super-light gamer with a 10hr extended battery. Great on flights!

I'm watching this on my Asus ROG laptop which looks like it could probably eat the Eee pc for breakfast, lol. Different target markets, I know.

i remember wanting the upper tier EeePc so bad. it looked so futuristic and portable compared to the thinkpad X40 hand me down from my old man. later when the fad died out i found out these were HUGELY overhyped and probably would have be a massive letdown if i ever got one.

"2lbs is equivalent to two 1lb weights" Good explanation

I still have my Eee Pad! I never owned the dock though 🙁 I remember winning it from a raffle from a game company, and the email they sent me looked so sketch at the time. I had to double check with their support to see if it was actually legitimate. Never had any issues with it and occasionally used it to test out android ports of Ren'Py stuff I tinkered with back in the day.

Netbooks had the advantage of a user base that was still mostly using Windows XP, a 5 year old OS that could run on any potato computer.

I had an Eeepc clone from Medion which came with Windows XP; I had no idea the original ones came with Linux

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Well, I suppose the current theme is to scare people with nuclear war and total collapse of worldwide interconnectivity, creating country-sized islands of information. Having a way to consume foreign media can be a massive advantage. Well, for European metrics, that is. 1600 miles would cover at least three countries in any direction. Also, this will speak to people taking the trailer-route of self-sufficiency. You can be in the remotest part you can imagine, 1600 miles will cover at least some stations.

Got the White 701 and the Black 900, love 'em both.

The final crop of netbooks were what I got, an Acer Aspire One from 2011 and 2012 (but by 2012 it was being marketed as a notebook) They did fulfil a role though and that is why I bought one (before the HDD crashed and was out of warranty and I needed a new one now) The battery like on those things were actually legendary for the era. I could get a good 8~10 hours of battery out of it with wifi, up to 12 hours without. My main laptop on the other hand was a massive Dell mobile workstation that you'd be lucky to get 1.5 hours out of. Also, you have no idea how much I wanted and still want an EeeKeyboard. I like the keyboard PC formfactor. It is amusing that iPads not running real desktop applications was a selling point. And still is since it seems Apple does whatever it can to make sure that the iPad is nothing more than an accessory or a just a good drawing tablet.

Have one. White, 7inch, with bluetooth. It came with XP, now Linux (DSL) on it, and still working good. I added the ram, and the bigger battery. Only downfall was the spacebar on the keyboard. Thats only connected on the left side, so if you're a fast typist, it sometimes misses the space if you push it a little to far on the right side. But hey..its still working. I keep it in my bugoutbag now.

Putting sugar in the tank will kill the engine, we did this as younglings to others in the famous moped wars of 1994. hahahaha and yes we killed many mopeds.

"Say goodbye to..." is such an obvious "we're not *technically* lying" scam indicator. You can "say goodbye to" anything but that doesn't mean it's going away. "Goodbye, Jupiter!"... ahh WTF it's still there.

I had one of these for a while - got it with a mobile plan. It had a built in 3G modem which killed the battery life while it was in use. Not a bad gimmick, but it lacked power and you could really feel it at times.

In some ways, Raspberry Pi had the same narrative - a simple, cheap computer for “everyone”, including in developing countries. Well, today more of us know that’s just “market-speak” for _let’s extract some money from them too…_ Good part is that janky low-spec hardware now recycles into useful tinkering everywhere - not least in so called “developed countries”. This drives much of our open-source “non-market” collective efforts. Oh, we unwittingly became “edge computing socialists”…? 😂

Any of those antennas can receive signals from thousands of miles away. But the purchase price doesn't include the cost of a trip to the International Space Station, which is where you'll need to be, in order to achieve the height necessary to enable line-of-sight propagation, which is how VHF & UHF signals travel.

I remember when the 7 inch eee pc's were new, and they were the coolest thing to me. I never got one, kind of wish these were still a thing. (Still kind of a thing on aliexpress)

in 1998, my computer shop actually carried some Asus laptops... they sold decently. I think i still have one somewhere.

I miss my samsung netbook that I had vista on. Good times... Also was the time I was trying to get into linux. Typing this on asus zenbook with kubuntu on.

I had an Eee PC (Eee PC 1005HA) throughout college, and it's probably one of the best computers I've ever owned. I put it up there with my 2015 MacBook Pro and my Framework. I have to disagree with Steve Jobs, these machines hit my specific niche perfectly: Broke college kid, always on the move, needing a computer to learn programming on. The Eee PC was just right for me, it was cheap and light, I literally always had it with me. Oddly enough, the lack of performance was actually a little bit of an advantage (beyond the extra battery life), it gave me a great feel for actual performance bottlenecks when programming. I still have that little machine in a cupboard. The battery is completely dead now, but it still boots. The screen resolution (1024x600) feels archaic, the keyboard is surprisingly good, albeit cramped, and because I went with a super lightweight linux distro, it boots surprisingly quickly, even though it's rocking a 5400rpm HDD. I love it!

Loved my eeepc. 1000HA. Installed Ubuntu and later xubuntu and had a blast. Still favour ASUS laptops and currently have a Vivobook 16 with Linux Mint installed.

At 2lbs, is it really about the same as two 1lb weights?

You missed some of the crucial points of the original Eee PC that made it stand out: 1. Small and light laptops did exist by that time, but for a premium price. 2. Cheap laptops did exist, but had abysmal build quality. Eee PC was simultaneously cheap, light, AND had a very decent thought-out design and build quality.

Even 20 years ago, you could learn to use a laptop within a day or two. What kids need is the educational fundamentals to evaluate the information that the laptop gives you access to.

i like notbooks , they are small , cheap , and run windows , had back in 2010 a acer one 9" , die after 7 years , and go now a lenovo 11"' asm a photographer/vidographer i like the small sise , when i have to carry camera tripods and other stuff , use them to shoot teder and show my work to clents , and also for audio recording , i pads and android tablets can not do that , so netbook

These scams go so far back, I remember as a kid 30 years ago seeing a late night TV ad about some device that would improve your car's performance and 3x your fuel mileage or something similar. It's always "these evil companies are trying to stop this groundbreaking invention because they have a financial interest in the status quo." The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Its the eeeee peee ceeee

Love all the iPad talk as I watch this on my M2 iPad Pro. 😂

@computerclan. That "UPTO 800 MILES" GETS them off the hook because that can be sny number depending on conditions, topography

What happened? They were crap.

A-SOOOSS Why is it so difficult to pronounce Asus correctly? They even made a video on the subject, but y'all insist on calling it Asoos.