Using a Netbook in 2024 - Is it any Good?

Netbooks! The teeny tiny little computers that could..... kinda. An underpowered solution for porable computing in the late 2000s that is obsolete today. But how usable are these things in 2024?
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0:00 - Intro
8:48 - Netbook #1
34:20 - Netbook #2
56:54 - Netbook #3
1:11:02 - Outro

[@Skyline-gk9gc]

as a chinese myself, when the first laptop booted up i just felt a surge of nostalgia. that's just one reflection of most typical home laptop or pcs back in 2010s, and it surely was my memory

[@Skyline-gk9gc]

Added: the system vendor is "YLMF" as the wallpaper states, the greatest windows pirate company at that time. It actually lived until windows Vista era and then just disappeared

[@mumpy1520]

do you know the name of that browser that actually loaded youtube?

[@Skyline-gk9gc]

​@@mumpy1520 that's called "360 safety browser", a 360 series software which run a newer chromium build

[@Skyline-gk9gc]

@@mumpy1520 it's "360 safe browser", a qihoo-360 company series software. it can open youtube because it runs on a newer chromium build (80+) which official winXP chrome stopped at 49

[@radixliner]

​@@mumpy1520try supermium

[@2eggos2]

7:01 that, my friend, is a 1malaysia netbook, they were given out free by the Malaysian government. It was just a generic chinese netbook with eyesore of a 1malaysia sticker placed on top of the lid, the hard drives in those netbooks were notorious for failing constantly. As far as I'm aware they replaced these with much better (but still bad) Acer Aspire Ones

[@frokfrdk]

YOOOO it's been found!!!

[@nothyperealfr]

oh damn we had those??? iirc at least in my school we had the aspire ones (malaysian btw)

[@Villager_U]

i'm pretty sure that netbooks got replaced with lenovo thinkcenter desktop around early 2019 which is kinda nice

[@nothyperealfr]

@@Villager_U no not really here at least we have transitioned to these netbbok sized thinkpads running windows 10 however

[@thesidneychan]

By the shape and design alone, I think it's based off the Eee PC 1000H.

[@ArielSings803]

The popup at 11:10 is from a well-known, but kind of infamous Chinese software called 360 Safeguard. The first popup said that your computer boots in 1 minute and 2 seconds, beating 23% of all computers, and suggesting that you should do 6 optimizations. The second popup and the ball at 11:37 came from its system monitoring software, saying that your computer had used 25% of memory and suggested you close some programs (even though the computer is totally fine). That software is supposed to work like an antivirus and PC optimization software. However, it could take up so many resources and so difficult to uninstall, such that it behaves more like malware. Nevertheless, it is commonly found in computers owned by the Chinese elderly.

[@ArielSings803]

btw The browser from the same netbook is called 360 Safety Browser. It's basically some backported or old version of Chromium for Windows XP. As the name suggests, this is also from the same company as 360 Safeguard. The previous owner had the whole suite installed on that poor netbook 😂.

[@kzkkwbt]

Funnily, I also have this app/antivirus on my Netbook too. ahahah Too bad I cannot power up my Newtbook coz I don't have a charger that fits the plug.

[@sabni8668]

lol, the irony of Chinese software to 'keep you safe' online... from what? Free press and discovering human rights exist elsewhere?!

[@HaeImAlan]

360 is basically malware

[@Soundwaiv]

💀💀💀

[@streetpigeongames3596]

This guy must be Dankpod's long lost brother.

[@IntegerOfDoom]

Aaaeechhh! Peeee!

[@Astrid--]

Dankpods + MJD

[@LeoFlipnotes]

@@Astrid-- EXACTLY

[@marcusmarano]

LETS GOOO 1 HOUR LONG FROKFRDK VIDEO

[@Ptero4]

The lack of the Win7 boot screen isn't because it's starter, it's because the fancy Win7 boot animation requires a screen resolution of 1024x768 or higher and that netbook have a screen that have the 1024x600 resolution that is so typical of netbooks.

[@Omegapork]

I find Netbooks really endearing! They try so hard :)

[@user-lt2rw5nr9s]

Speaking of running Linux on these, the one without a tilda would actually be a pain. Not that you couldn't do it, but it's the shortcut for home directory. It makes the difference between typing ~/folder/file and /home/user/folder/file. For distro, Xububtu or Lubuntu might be good options.

[@frokfrdk]

Never thought about that, that is actually kinda funny

[@fanlessfurmark]

been running lmde with mate de on mine, mostly. Well, devuan with mint bodykit by the time i finish with them.

[@Krovatko]

Isn't the tilda key to the left of the space?

[@bokexd3173]

trust me my friend even xubuntu and lubuntu are too much for those

[@jnharton]

The tilde (~) is usually found on the ESC(APE) key. You can always remap the keys or assign that character to some combination of modifier keys (Ctrl, Alt, Shift) and a regular key.

[@vespertinnee]

13:20 dang my guy flat out ignored firefox and green chinese inet explorer, that's harsh

[@OlegDorbitt]

That Eee PC keyboard layout is not that bad. The one on Russian Eee's is miserable, though: firstly 2 or 3 keys on the right of each letter row are even smaller (to fit in rarely used letters), and secondly, some genius decided to move the tilde key into the function row, left of Esc. Yes, that means the function keys are shifted one position to the right! Got muscle memory? Throw it in the traaaash.

[@luki8806]

I have an EEE 1001PX with 2GB ram, Atom N450 and a 250SSD still in everyday use with Q4OS 64bit :D I bought it for school, than I used it as a toolbox to repair other PCs (storing ISOs and installers and to create bootdrives), now it's a "mancave pc" hooked up to a 4:3 monitor and external m+k and speakers. Mainly it's a jukebox/netradio, a little "focus typewriter" so I can write without distractions. Also it's a little beast with dosbox to play old games, really a nice project PC. It also had a 32 bit W7 setup for some old games. Great little pc serving me 15+ years now for almost every single day. Of course not my main PC but i would really miss it if it dies someday and probably get a similar for the same purpose :D

[@markenetube]

Someone will probably warn you not to go online with it. I have an old laptop for gaming I use for KZbin too sometimes. Not been hacked yet.

[@luki8806]

@@markenetube With W7 I agree, all network devices are blocked. But why not with q4os? It's basically an up2date debian with trinity DE. Fun fact: with minitube it can play 720p youtube at 30fps. Pretty impressive for it's spec.

[@markenetube]

@luki8806 it's an I5 sony viao. It will take win 10, but I find I get crashes on C&C etc. I have Liux Mint on a second partition . That runs like a dream. I used my Samsung netbook every day until 2 years ago. I use a Lenovo one still. Not with an Atom chip. It has a low power Celeron. I love keeping old tech useful. I do think it odd when people mock older stuff by trying to run things made 15 years after they were made. In their time they worked fine. I found a windows 95 PC in a skip a few years back. I was impressed at how fast it was. 16meg of ram. 800meg had.

[@dbranconnier1977]

Q4OS is a good choice for these netbooks. Debian based, resource friendly and up to date, can't go wrong.

[@japareaggae]

49:52 - In the late 00's/early 10's, it was pretty common practice by PC repair corner shops (at least in Brazil) to make 2 partitions on an HD when installing Windows on someone's computer, and the technician would tell the user to save all their data in the second partition. That way, when the computer inevitably needed to be wiped again, the technician would just wipe the Windows partition and keep the second partition intact. Of course, the user would almost never use that partition because they would keep saving their stuff in the default folders, which are in the Windows partition. Good times!

[@Kriath]

He's back!

[@AlexCannot]

Im glad i stayed up till 1 am waiting for this. Thanks aussie frog

[@riccamutt]

great video as usual, always a good new a frokfrdk new video. Greetings from spain

[@pieceofdirt]

can't believe frokfrdk made an 1+ hour vid and uploaded it 12 hours before wwdc24

[@coolkid_418]

True 😅

[@TheAppleExperence]

Getting in early before everyone goes to wwdc content for the next week

[@jhoughjr1]

Heh i forgot that was coming up. I used to follow them religiously.

[@encycl07pedia-]

@@TheAppleExperence Only lemmings watch Apple trash.

[@encycl07pedia-]

@@TheAppleExperence Apple is for fkg iddie yots.

[@TheSpotify95]

1:06:19 That's why the Toshiba netbook worked better - it was a dual core Atom, whereas all the other ones were single core.

[@thrillhelm419]

In hindsight, it's not really that our computers felt slower despite the fact that they were... it's that the software didn't require as much power as today's PCs so from a performance standpoint, the software of the internet in 2009 ran just fine on a laptop from 2009. We didn't have as many features and integrations as today, but things ran fine.

[@EgoChip]

I used to have an MSI netbook as a daily driver about 7-8 years ago. It was a dual core Celeron and was actually quite good for what it was, especially with SSD and RAM upgrade. It worked up until last year when the on-board RAM failed, so now it's pretty much dead.

[@TheAppleFreak]

Had a Dell Mini 10v back in the day. 10.1" screen, Atom N270, and 1GB RAM. Despite its anemic specs, it was an absolutely fantastic Hackintosh and ran Snow Leopard like a dream (with a patched 32-bit kernel).

[@aserta]

36:58 welp, that's nice. Removing ram without removing the battery. That never went wrong in the history of computing. 💡

[@frokfrdk]

I will continue to remove ram without removing the battery every single time from here on out

[@Shyammont]

we missed your videos!

[@precisionxt]

One thing I’ve found Netbooks useful for is a diagnostic PC for automotive purposes (think OBDII). Not as cumbersome as a regular notebook and it doesn’t require much processing power. Adding an SSD always helps too.

[@Chetosmicrowave]

W 1 hour frokfrdk video 🔥🔥🔥

[@paramiku]

Ahhh this brings me back. Believe it or not, before I got my current PC I was using an Aspire One up until September of 2020 for everyday use running on Windows 8. I also played a ton of SM64 on it with PJ64 and I can say that it was even powerful enough to screen record it at 480p no issue whilst playing. It would have surely worked better under Windows 7 or XP but eh whatever. Great video

[@Dreadnoughty]

Back in 2011 I had a Acer Aspire One 722 Netbook. Powered by an AMD C-60 APU (first gen of AMD APU´s) + 8GB Ram it served me pretty well. With the quite capible GPU in this thing light gaming was no problem. My Dream machine back then was the Alienware M11x, the coolest Netbook ever created. If Alienware made a modern M11x instead of a Handheld PC i would buy that thing in an instant.

[@TheHangarHobbit]

I still have an AMD based EEE PC and with an upgrade to an SSD and 8GB of RRAM I loaded Q4OS Linux and...it still makes a good basic laptop. Plays 720P video, surfs the web, they really aren't bad little laptops.

[@AwokadoYT]

good video !!! keep it up !!!!!!!

[@MattBruzdziak]

I still own a HP Mini 311-1000nr that I did a board swap on for the one that had the full nvidia ION. I also flashed the hacked bios to overclock it and added a 2gb ram stick to max out the ram capacity to 3GB. It's fun to tinker with.

[@lukedavis436]

Think i found another channel I'll enjoy quite a bit, as a chronic laptop hoarder i shall enjoy this

[@dhsdleel]

the Nintendo 3DS XXL at 6:43 🫠

[@Zangos2AN905]

That power point presentation is so peak

[@anthonybf2]

I have a netbook called HP Mini 311 with 256mb NVidia ION graphics, and combined with Windows XP + SSD, it can actually do things and run old games well.

[@ChupetaoSP]

Cool. Im looking for this one to buy it. Which games can run?

[@anthonybf2]

@@ChupetaoSP I would say 2005 games or below and at mid-low settings. The only games I have personally tried are San Andreas and both Battlefronts games and they all run fine at mid-low settings.

[@TheRetarp]

I love the netbook form factor! Bought an MSI Wind back around 2010. Upgraded the RAM to 2GB and it actually worked rather well for basic stuff. When it died of old age - the plastic literally broke to pieces - I replaced it with a Lenovo 11e which had a quad core AMD with 4GB RAM. That machine is a TANK which still works perfectly fine other than being terribly outdated. After 5 years or so I replaced with a newer 11e 2-in-1 with an Intel M series, and 8GB of ram. Unfortunately that machine is glitchy and gets stuck in low power mode. Seems to be a problem with the newer 11e generations. I think the key is to manage expectations. To me these were cheap beater laptops I could take on the go without concern. If I dropped one and broke it oh well. My son was issued a small 2-in-1 chromebook by his school that looks pretty much identical to the 11e and is for using the school's google docs on it. Even his textbooks are on it. No more textbooks, just a touchscreen laptop; I'm jealous!

[@Pasi123]

I loved my Compaq Mini 110c, it was really portable and had long battery life thanks to having a big 55Wh battery. It's an older one so it came with Windows XP which ran great on the Atom N270

[@Technology-Repair-Druid]

Awesome video! Love seeing these old machines. :D That unbranded one is a rip-off of the Sony Vaio FW Series, of which I own one. It's not the best rip-off I've seen, but it does definitely try its best.

[@Dawid_The_Man]

3:44 i actually loved this, this laptop was my childhood, unfortunately i spilled milk all over it and it doesnt turn on

[@olivervandewiele584]

If you still have it you should try repairing it.

[@eduardosantabaya5348]

netbooks still can run on Linux Mint, I've repaired the Eee700 (7"), 900 (9") and 1000/1005/1010 (10"), the Atom D255 (in German, I live in Argentina, I speak Spanish), the Toshiba NB100/105, and lots of HP Minis, the worst limitation was the ram. We have lots of netbooks as our country gave lots of them to pupils in schools (MIT's OLPC initiative), after 2015 processors were upgraded to Celerons and ram increased to 4 gigs. Those netbooks were crucial in 2020 during the pandemic to keep educational services alive. I sold a month ago a HP Mini-210 with w10 Mini OS (a modified w10). They still have life remaining, not that much, but they're still useful.

[@survil321]

Oh wow I have like the exact one as you (the HP Pavilion), which model do you have? And does it still work?

[@Space_Reptile]

Biggest issue w/ these netbooks and linux is the fact that these usually all have 32 bit atoms in them and linux is phasing out 32 bit support so the majority of the major distros just dont work

[@JohnDeere1]

Idc😊

[@axallotofquestionsMusic]

Ffffff yes, another vid, ive got frokfrdk withdrawal 😂

[@corey7219]

I still have my acer aspire one aod270! Made in May 2012. Granted the hinge is borked, but it works. Upgraded the ram to 2gb of ddr3 ram. That's all the upgrading I did for it

[@MrJ0mmy]

netbook 2 i have that same one they where selling back in like 2010 on ebay for like around 290nzd free shipping brand new was a good deal at the time i still sometimes use it you can run games a little better on it if you install modded GMA drivers

[@user-on4wq8pp2p]

instead of him saying gigabyte on 8:21 he said "gigglebyte"🤣

[@zmateneslunicko3928]

Supermium is cool. Modern backport of actual Chromium builds running all the way back to the XP.

[@UrekGamer123]

In my school we have one in place with old computers

[@misophoniq]

OMG, the Eee PC! This little gem was amazing! It came with the most horrible custom Linux-like crap installed, but I managed to turn it into a Hackintosh that ran faster than my iMac G5! Using an external monitor and keyboard, I actually made some tunes on this thing running GarageBand. Oh, the memories!

[@imark7777777]

1:03:50 ~ Key relocated error, teena found in normal location see bottom row. That's a necessary key I use it a lot.

[@typicaltar3q]

I still use a netbook on a regular basis! Can’t say it’s unusable. I didn’t even know why I began using it considering I have a gaming laptop 😂

[@fanlessfurmark]

eee pc x101ch in white is still my goto for music device to take on holiday

[@stevenofford495]

I have an acer aspire one that I went through several replacement keyboards on. Finally I bought a resistive USB touch screen overlay for it. I may try to resurect it as a car computer. Maybe just for music selection . The resistivbe touch screens are not up to much.

[@frusanov]

I use my 2012 VAIO netbook as a home server, for file sharing and most of self hosted services works perfectly.

[@VRStoned1978]

I owned 2 of those netbooks.. i used them alot. an MSI wind but last an hp mini 5103 .. it was a premium netbook.super build 2gb ram compared to others.. high resolution 1366x768, 250gb hd and 3g modem buildin

[@knownstone]

0:32 - I had this laptop! It was actually the first ever laptop I used! (And I watched the angry birds movie on it haha)

[@anthonysullivan5197]

Netbooks always fascinating! Gee, those touchpads are a lot smaller than the one on my 2024 Lenovo Ideapad Slim 3 Chromebook.

[@dnel83]

I have a Samsung n110 I bought in 2009. It was useless browsing the web even 15 years ago, more so today. I still have it though and the battery still works. I even find it useful as a terminal pc for network engineering tasks making use of its built in ethernet port which is rare today.

[@theguitargamer1]

I used those netbooks as music players, old consoles emulation and to watch movies. They can still do that. I remember I found a working HP netbook on the trash in 2018

[@sopvwastaken]

Dear frokfrdk. You should posted video later because it was posted at 7am my time >:( You should installed Linux on them or better Chrome OS because its meant for netbooks nowadays. You as tech youtuber should know just update browsers. Or use something like Supermium. Why you needed to use dongle. What you can't find drivers for netbook? Should dropped some upgrades in netbooks like Solid State Drive and More ram. Anyways what I said was sarcasm. Video was so great. I liked how you checked threw someones bloat on netbooks.

[@patg108]

idk about that "being better" XP is still capable of being a match for ANY Linux installs in many ways and would prove to be a interesting comparison with optimized builds, and proper software experimentation. Remember even linux is getting bloated these days (some of them) And that's proving some things that appear to be bloatware or malware might not be so (or at least not entirely)

[@dinorme]

@@patg108 not really.

[@patg108]

@@dinorme You underestimate XP's capabilities, how many options it truely has, how well it can be configured. Its arguably Microsoft's best OS to date with few that can defeat it by Microsoft or others. And you vastly overestimate linux. XP is old out of date and will only grow more so. It has withstood the test of time and being better than MANY linux variants because of this and will do so for some time to come. I'm not saying it doesn't have its flaws, its limits, but so does linux. I've seen more linux flaws and issues pop up day to day than windows. But you're also underestimating software support, hardware support (be it offical or 3rd party or fan made) XP has. There is people tinkering with it even on modern hardware. Albeit a lot of its software is outdated but a lot of it in the right hands and the right situation is quite powerful and versatile, just like XP itself is. It also has far better driver support (in general) for XP. Also several years ago XP outlasted linux in a hacking convention. Technically its very much arguably more securable (as long as you know how to fix the flaws that can be fixed by user modification). And do you realize that security through obscurity isn't security? Linux is proving that more and more as time goes on. XP wouldn't have as much of a fanbase if all of this wasn't true And the linux fanbase is well known to be arrogant and overconfident and ignorant of its own flaws.

[@dinorme]

@@patg108 still its a security problem use a protected os instead smh windows users

[@patg108]

@@dinorme in theory. Wiindows has more security options (counting operating legacy than linux has so technically it can be more secure with care and concern. linux has FAR less of that so its reliant upon security through obscurity which isn't security

[@PhobosTK]

Oh boi... I'm still using that same model of aspire one. The ram limitation suck, the cpu and cooler assembly suck even more, but once you load it with an ssd and some flavor of linux or bsd it works like a charm. I keep mine as a spare terminal, gps and dosbox machine.

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

1:58 The whole "older laptops were dog slow" thing people seem to be mentioning often when they talk about old hardware nowadays is very exaggerated. Back when computers didn't take less than 20 seconds to boot, people would just turn their device on, go do something else, then come back once it was finished. There was no such thing as waiting in front of the machine like a Muppet then complaining about the time it took. And servers are very slow to boot even to this day because they have to initialize all their RAM and, when you have hundreds of Gigabytes or Terabytes of it, that may take a few minutes to happen.

[@michelvanbriemen3459]

That "old laptop slow" experience is often fueled by hand-me-down laptops that are loaded with bloatware, things you don't need, old registries that don't need to be there anymore, and too many antivirus programmes being installed.

[@NaoPb]

Nice video! Could you upload that wallpaper from the Acer Aspire One somewhere?

[@icukeosu]

the unbranded laptop looks somewhat similar to some of the sony vaios, for example the vaio pcg-31311v. i actually remember seeing similar ones on aliexpress around 2013-2015.

[@Falco95]

A 1 hour long video?? Niceee Also, I do remember my Samsung NC10, loved it to bits. I put Windows 7 on it, upgraded the ram to 2gb, the storage as well (no SSD as they were damn expensive) and it was solid tbh. I ended up installing linux on it and then.. sold it to replace it with idk what.. 🤔

[@corey7219]

43:40 That's my wifi adapter! It's awesome! Works on XP and up. Drivers are on the internet archive as Archer T2U Nano

[@Ben333bacc]

Ghost was a very popular disk cloning program in the 90s. You could either have two HDDs in one machine (source and destination) or make a special netboot floppy and ghost over a network. back when I was in school I volunteered to set up a new lab of PCs, so we ghosted one win2000 image to all 24 new boxes.

[@bestcreate1417]

The last netbook is perfect for retro gaming

[@TimWalter23]

I got really nostalgic about the first netbook as it was my first ever laptop. My dad used it for a long time and then gave it to me (with Windows 10 installed! I've never used anything that horrible before...). I used it for a long time, although making it bearable with a lightweight Linux distro.

[@BG101UK]

I'm fortunate to have one of the seemingly rare Acer Aspire One D255E machines with the dual-core N570 processor. I added a 2GB RAM module. This does perform acceptably well with Linux Mint Xfce on it. None of these Atoms will work well with the (usually enforced) 60Hz on 720p and above but do handle 30Hz OK. By the way, the Aspire D255E's charge LED turns from orange to blue when it's full. The battery on mine still gives a few hours! Love the Toshiba NB520 but my battery is dead.

[@zigenstern]

there was 1 early EEPC i had with a glossy red and black top cover, came with windows 7 starter and 2gb ram, the CPU was sockets for some reason, gave me the great idea to try and swap it out with whatever I had that would fit, got an I7 840QM into it and it actually worked, i could play minecraft on it back then, but also burn myself everytime I touched it

[@clydeosterhout1221]

I loved my Netbook!

[@BeginningTry3200]

The color of the Toshiba Netbook is Gimblit - BCA476 with an RGB of 188, 164, 118.

[@adelate64]

nice

[@lanceorventech6129]

This netbooks with Intel chipsets run better than my Acer Aspire 1 with an AMD C-60 APU, cant even play youtube at 240p

[@newyoshistudio]

I own a similar Aspire One, it currently runs 64-bit Windows 7 on an SSD

[@paodelodeovar7052]

btw, the unbranded pc is an eeepc, i have one that looks the exact same, but with windows xp, even the keyboard looks the exact same with the blue markings

[@Unan1mouz]

Wow that Toshiba design really has a nice design. I would've loved owning it back then! I owned an Eee PC btw 😂 lol

[@Max_Mustermann]

I was thinking of getting a used netbook to play around with and to use as an ssh terminal for Raspberry Pi projects, etc. But ended up getting a Latitude D420 for very cheap, which is almost as small and it has a regular Core Duo CPU instead of an Atom.

[@iRedMCYT]

“Goobery”.. wow this reminds me of me.

[@rog492]

You can actually install a low use OS on these to make it usable again I know a lot about computers so if I find something interesting I'll give you a tip

[@voxan24]

I still use this mini PC for some task (In my garage for OBD relate stuff who ask for a Windows 7/XP 32Bit version) or some old hardware (mainly apple related)

[@ennayanne]

I love that green vaio, frutiger aero the computer

[@hyperturbotechnomike]

I'd suggest taking a look at the HP2170p netbook, which has an i5 3rd gen CPU cramped into a 11.6" form factor. I had the version with the 64GB SATA SSD and it was quite snappy. The only downside is the abyssmal display. I think with 8GB of RAM and some optimisations, like Windows 10 LTSC and Firefox, it would still be a decent web machine. The netbooks with the intel Atom processors were basically e-waste. Some of them were slower than a Pentium III Tualatin, which is extremely low. A friend of mine had an eeePC with Win7 and it was laggy, even in MS office, he couldn't type too fast or the netbook would stall.

[@DrFox-wz4ph]

I also got an 2013 Acer Aspire One but with an AMD C-60 Dual Core, and 8 gigs of ram

[@chitan1362]

I would love to see the netbook form factor come back, but with decent modern specs.

[@Joridiy]

Not me still using that same Acer Aspire One model in 3:30 as my main computer in 2024. 💀 It was super cool back in the day, but for 2024 standards it's definitely a torture device. Yet, something worth mentioning about my Aspire One is that, even after 14 years using it, the battery is working perfectly. Back in the day it lasted like 3 hours disconnected and after all this time it can survive 1 entire hour before needing to recharge. Even though it drives me crazy, after so many years together, i've grown fond of it but i do hope i can upgrade in the next years because such hardware can't run windows 10 not even to save its life and windows 7 is already a relic

[@rbtosinistro]

Solving the heavyweight browsing, here in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, my netbook x100e tuned with 4GB RAM and SSD is loving Windows 7-64"pro" (original), a second monitor and a remote desktop for linking to another computer running another Windows Pro.

[@analogerror]

The 'unknown' laptop is an unlabeled clone of an Eee PC 900 variation, with the led lights and power button moved, presumably to avoid legal troubles. The screen is a touch larger (and better quality) than those models with a smaller bezel, possibly due to easier to get LCD panels.

[@wintermute740]

FWIW, I have an Asus eee PC 900ha with a fairly recent version of Kali which works surprisingly well, once I maxed the RAM on it.

[@TheFenecFox]

I think you did a good job on the first laptop by just "seeing how it goes," but to be fair as long as that ram is upgradeable Windows XP is quite capable! If it had 4GB I bet those Intel Atoms with Superium will handle KZbin videos quite well!

[@JPVolvo]

The first laptop is what I was rocking back in 2008

[@Yippeee5959]

I too had that netbook with intel atom

[@pacthesir]

I remember back in those days, I had an HP mini 110, and back in those days, it ran webpages just fine, KZbin even played at at least 720p just fine. Now I can barely get google to even load

[@homeforobsoletetechnology]

I own such a tablet PC, the HP Compaq TC-1100. In my opinion those are criminally underrated. I'm still using mine for sirious tasks. The Aspire One was my first ever Notebook in 2015. I cannot express how much I hated that slow peace of junk😅

[@sovietunion43]

In the notebook that I have it is running not bad

[@geoman1420]

I have a Samsung NC10 netbook from 2008. Removed WinXP and installed Q4OS (Linux). I can use it to check emails, use office docs and for internet browsing...

[@patg108]

XP is capable of being safe online still if you know what you're doing and know the right software that it still supports. And is capable of being modified (hence custom iso reference) of being a low end powerhouse. And also remember it has posready update support until 2019 so for a 2001 os its not as weak or incapable as you might think. After all there IS a lot more software support (even if discontinued and having to use more at or near its time) than Linux.

[@atalakeanumonarshi129]

Netbooks (especially the later models) were still quite cromulent and usable in my opinion! The toshiba one is quite intriguing to me and I reckon with a ram and storage upgrade it'll be able to handle day-to-day tasks pretty well (albeit a little on the slow side with only an N570). Heck, you could even daily drive it if you want, might be a good content idea imo :D

[@maikeru6158]

I have a similar acer aspire, it has an amd c-50 and 2gb ddr3 ram. Use it as a seedbox with linux mint

[@MacroBlockArt]

These little things aren't bad if you run era-appropriate or older software on them. I remember having one in college with an old version of Maya on it and using it on an external monitor for low poly 3D and digital painting, even. At modest resolutions it worked fine. The current-day web is too boated for them though esp. on windows. Apps like FreeTube may be able to help, also lightweight linux distros. I did also overclock mine though from 1.6ghz to about 1.85ghz when running more demanding things.

[@red_ashcroft]

I have the same EeePC! It did the job back in the day. I actually even did work on there. But in a Linux environment which was lighter and significantly faster.

[@laurentitolledo1838]

My MSI Wind U100 outlasted my Sony Vaio Flip 15 (RIP)... and I still have the U100...currently sporting win7 but will be converting Linux sometime soon...

[@fyjypko4207]

I have that exact eeepc and i remember playing the beta and like 1.1, 1.2 at like max 8fps and ussually around 0-2 fps i cant imagine now how i even played like that