ASUS Eee PC Refurbishment, Part 1 - Disassembly & Windows 7 Test

[@lexmarks567]

asus EEE but from the makers of the KIA Cee'd or AKA the Kia C apostrophe D

[@jaykay18]

Yeah, pronounced "seedy", because that's what it is!

[@kevinsvideodump]

You need to say the "eeEEEeeeeEEe" in a Cousin Brucie voice.

[@jaykay18]

That'll be the day!

[@torythefanman]

Ah netbooks..I remember when these first came out..For some reason i REALLY wanted one..But i later got a regular laptop. But i always thought these netbooks were cool. EEEEEEEPPPPPCCC!!!

[@jaykay18]

I have this one and another one made by Acer. The Acer has pretty much the same specs, but is a much nicer machine through and through, especially in terms of build quality. When used for their intended purpose, netbooks are great! A lot of people knock them, saying they're underpowered, but that's because it's not going to run games or anything like that. This was a machine for casual web browsing, email, maybe a KZbin video here or there, word processing, maybe an Excel spreadsheet, that's really about it. The deal breaker is the small keyboard for me, those keys are really tiny. Still nowhere near as bad as a phone's on screen keyboard, which is completely abominable, but nothing like a full-sized laptop's keyboard. Not that those are any good anymore either, they have horrible tactile feedback and feel like you're typing on mush. Truth be told, most people who got netbooks no longer use them. In this day and age, unless you're really doing light light duty stuff, a netbook just isn't going to cut it. They filled a niche in the market at the time, that niche has gone away, and you don't really see them anymore. In an effort to revitalize it, they later came with 10" screens and a bit faster processor, but it was too little, too late. As you well know, I preach that a machine is never obsolete, unless it cannot do what you need it to do any longer. A machine like this can easily be repurposed into a digital picture frame. And hey, many of them had an SD card reader built in. They still can do what they were originally produced for, although the Internet has grown exponentially by several orders of magnitude in therms of complexity of websites, so nowadays it's going to be slow slow slow. The Acer I have still runs XP and likely will continue to do so for the near future. It runs a particular program to drive an old OBDII car scan tool, and does it well. Nowadays of course there are handheld versions for very little money, of which I have one. Before those came out, original plans for my garage included an old PC by the big door, with a long cable for the scan tool. Likely that's not going to happen, especially now with the handheld ones. But it's still functional (though for some reason it won't read THE BIG SIX). Maybe one day, just for fun.

[@lexmarks567]

as far as the stripped screw it's china. Everyone in those sweat shops is like joe with a power drill. Strip it out till it's tight then strip it some more.

[@jaykay18]

You're absolutely right. I can't tell you how many screws I have encountered in my years that seemed to have been tightened down with an air wrench. Interestingly the heads on them aren't stripped, that is, until you go to take them out!