Trying To Use An Eee PC in 2024

[@WinrichNaujoks]

These were the shittiest computers ever. A real race to the bottom. What an awful experience it was. Intel should be required to pay compensation to their customers.

[@FubarMike]

The problem was they ran windows. With lightweight Linux distress of the time they were alright.

[@Mirra2003-f9s]

For basic web browsing and light tasks they were ok back in 2008. Also there were several Intel Atom models,some bad,some ok. I had a Lenovo S10e with Atom N270,ran Windows XP fine and i even used to play old games like Vice City on it just fine and later i even ran Windows 7 pretty ok with it. They were comparable to high end Pentium 3s

[@Bluedion]

Agreed.

[@polocatfan]

they were sub 100 dollar pcs at a time when the pc used market wasn't really there. they're fine.

[@BilisNegra]

100? Where? They were typically twice as much, or even more.

[@JessicaFEREM]

the F keys not being there makes a whole lotta sense but it never ceases to look super odd.

[@cpuwizard9225]

The predecessor to the Chromebook.

[@battletechfanatic2354]

no, the Android Netbooks were predecessors of the Chromebooks.

[@Arax.__.]

Angry aussie man appears in background, seems he is saying something about the microsoft bindows.

[@Dragonfire511]

Oh, my PKCells.

[@AMDRyzen57500F]

ah yes, windows 🅱indows

[@testergaming71]

dankpods???

[@C1tro3nManiac]

literal correction moment Did you mean: Angry aussie man appears in background, seems like he is saying something about the *_michaelsoft binbows._*

[@firesnake6311]

Yes yes yes yes, part 2 should be some super light weight OS like void or artix with window manager or The smallest windows 7 version like those with 500mb iso size

[@NomadByte]

gonna likely use void. It seems like a good choice.

[@rmcdudmk212]

​@@NomadByteI have a similar system in a Lenovo Thinkpad x140e. I installed XFCE Linux Mint and it works pretty damn good for a potato. 😂

[@NomadByte]

I was gonna try xfce mint but it doesn't have enough storage lmao

[@linnex3561]

Ah yes, the EEE PEE CEEE

[@Airpassionz]

Install zorin os lite, it runs like butter even with a HDD and an atom cpu (N450)

[@JessicaFEREM]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="262">4:22</a> that's an alphasmart neo, basically a distraction free writing device. it's basically a digital notepad. it's basically a funny shaped palm PDA.

[@NomadByte]

ah alright thanks

[@IntergalacticDustBunny]

I got one of these at a thrift store for $10 USD, it still had the Win 7 starter on it. I upgraded the RAM to 2GB, put an old 500GB SSD I had lying around, installed win xp 32GB and found an ISO of the driver disk online. Been playing some old rts games on it like Dawn of War and Starcraft, etc. They all run pretty good, forgot how much I missed the old Windows. I spent a total of $25 bucks.

[@MrMoto655]

Make sure you turn off defragging in XP so it doesn’t eviscerate your disk. XP also doesn’t support TRIM natively but I’m not sure that’s relevant for your use case.

[@IntergalacticDustBunny]

@MrMoto655 Thanks for the reminder on the defrag setting, totally forgot about that.

[@kittenzrulz2314]

Install Debian with IceWM :3

[@Cat-fy5lw]

MeGo is a Linux-based operating system that was an alternative to Windows 7 Starter for the Asus Eee PC. Pretty cool little machine.

[@resolvanlemmy]

I heard that a Nokia phone also ran this operating system.

[@Cat-fy5lw]

@@resolvanlemmy That's actually crazy. Must have been a really popular OS.

[@all2funnycomments724]

Definitely do a part 2. Bodhi linux Legacy or Puppy linux would work killer on this

[@dawgre]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="186">3:06</a> Google shows a combination of the old HTML homepage and mobile search layout on really old browsers, the ‘+’ symbol on the new tab button and wrench icon for settings tells me it’s just a very old version of chromium from like 2010/2011 lol

[@LMFTMFMCEC]

"Glory hole" I spit out my drink dude lol

[@I401]

Puppy linux i'd love to see on this thing

[@shenavaromid]

It needs 32-bit os, so I suggest to install antiX on it. I think it would work great on it.

[@davidb636]

According to Wikipedia: MeeGo was the fusion of the projects Moblin (Intel) and Maemo (Nokia). This project is basically the predecessor of Tizen. Some of the ex-Nokia devs founded Jolla which took MeeGo to develop SailfishOS

[@battletechfanatic2354]

I had one of these many years ago. I bought it when travelling to UK so it came with that crazy energy connector and costed me a lot to find an adapter for this oddity. It had Win7 and the MeeGo linux system but I made the mistake of update it to Win10 that was too much for the poor CPU and 1GB of RAM. I eventually upgraded it to 8GB of RAM just to find out that the CPU could not manage so much RAM (2GB was the maximum). I end up selling it to a Pizzeria owner that need a compact computer to make notes and manage simple spreadsheets.

[@Dennis-ur4zu]

thanks for the upload. i remember getting to try one of the later, more premium models than ran windows xp and cool shi like quake 3 arena. your particular model is in dire need of mx linux or even puppy linux. best regards!

[@TheRetroEngine]

That sound effect though. Luggin' the beast over the desk.

[@philreed1605]

Before smartphones and tablets, netbooks were how we kept online when travelling. I tried to do web dev for one but the vertical resolution was so low, it was so tricky. Just as well that they get served mobile view of sites, that and the sucky performance.

[@TheHangarHobbit]

Ironically I still have my EEE Pc from 2011 but luckily I bought the AMD version and with stock Debian? Works perfectly fine as a netbook, thanks to the AMD having a dual core APU I just added H.264ify and it plays 720p KZbin, surfs the web, just added 8GB of RAM which turned out to be overkill as Debian only uses 3GB and a $8 SSD and it still makes a perfectly useable netbook even in 2024.

[@jhonrock2386]

I had one of these, but from Acer, back in the day, while in college. It was quite the useful tool, help me a lot in taking notes and making quick online searches.

[@Cloud28693]

I currently use my Eee PC 1025c with a N2600 processor a nodded bios to run 4gb of ram and x64 OS. I have installed the latest Zorin OS and it does anything I need. It's not super fast, but it's a reliable compact device to carry around for basic tasks.

[@RobertoPerez-ys4su]

at 6.5w of cpu TDP and it being 64 bits, void linux would run great on it (with some window manager). i have a similar netbook from the same era and with this setup it goes great for many many tasks, the only bad thing is that the screen is too small to do any work, but for a small study laptop, kids laptop (small keyboard is easier for them), or even kitchen laptop (these can do youtube @720p or invidious) this thing is still pretty solid. honestly they suck and always sucked on any windows that ins't xp but since running an up to date OS is extremely important when browsing the internet, linux is the way to go with it as a last alternative, with the cpu being 64 bits and having such a low tdp, this could work as a small nas or cover some other homelab role

[@NomadByte]

After reading your comment I went ahead and tested out void linux in a virtual machine and after figuring out how to install everything I think its likely thats what I will use in the next video.

[@RCfromtheNYC]

I recently flipped a few EEE PCs recently, and you can install an SSD drive, and then install a debloated version of Windows 10 (Tiny 10) or a low-spex Linux distribution (Damn Small Linux 2024 runs great on these netbooks).

[@saurabhkulkarni8854]

Had one of these growing up and Windows XP SP3 works best on this (Not sure if 2k also does but idk if drivers exist but it'll potentially have even better performance). Just a heads up though, if you plan to install any of those, either you'll need to format the whole hard disk as an installer or use a USB DVD drive. USB booting isn't possible (at least wasn't on my model).

[@leonidas14775]

I have one like it. I put windows 7 for running old windows apps, and Debian/xfce for going online.

[@jensputzlocher8345]

Atom n435 ! 64 Bit! What a brilliant Powerhouse compared to my Dell Mini 10v with an Atom n270 32bit inside. Both have one core,two threads cand an adress max 2 GB RAM, but mine was shipped with a 160 gm HDD. Those were the days before tablets were common. I espacially bought mine to create a mobile hackintosh in 2012, running MacOS 10.6. Originally shipped with win XP, i tried a dual Boot with Windows 7, but it was too weak. Nowadays it ran a 32bit MXLinux Fluxbox Edition / XfCe environment. Very slow, but it can play KZbin in 144p.

[@mikemariosonicfan_and_pokemon]

Install windows xp and look how good it performance in games and then try windows 7 to look how it performance in games

[@YoMamazYT]

I bought one of these a few months ago its a 1001p model which i think is older than the one in this video but it has way more ports and all normal keys on the keyboard. i installed Windows 7 pro x64 on it works great.

[@the_dnp]

"Gloryhole" 😂😂😂 I would call it an access panel...lololol

[@JMD-tu1xm]

I've heard 32-bit Linux or even Windows Vista or 7 runs well on these. You should try it.

[@lvl90dru1d]

i bought basically identical to the early EEEs in terms of the hardware ECS E09EI6 (but its case design is cooler, it's like a waffle maker or something) in April of this year, was around 10$ for me and the battery was rebuilt by previous owner (holds its charge for around 2 hours now), now it's my go-to machine to play the XP-era games (i 100%'d Snoopy vs. The Red Baron on it recently) one thing that sucks - this machine has 8 GB semi-proprietary SSD (with the same connector as found on the iPod), that's not a lot and it's gonna be hard to replace

[@randomrando8350]

Wonder if Kolibri could run on this. Requires like 8mb of ram tho and a floppy/cd drive.

[@christopherdecker3830]

How about a full install of Puppy Linux on that Eee PC 😀? I'm sure it'd run better than what's on there!

[@imrannazir5585]

The project ended brutally.

[@DarkVision2018]

Your content is interesting i love it

[@SPCWinnebagoCounty]

My favorite computer, the AAY PEE CEE

[@rmcdudmk212]

Loved the netbook form factor. Its just too bad their processor and ram configs were attrotious.

[@C1tro3nManiac]

Imagine installing *Windows 11* on a *Eee PC.*

[@InterlacedTech]

I still have my eepc 701 4g surf on me, I even got windows 10 running on the 600mhz celeron ULV it has. Poor thing has been tortured since whoever from my family owned it and it's currently lying half dead in my closet with it's original cover and charger. I have lost the box unfortunately though.

[@Saver310]

I'm literally forced to use one because the rest of my computers are fucked up

[@Alex_TR1713]

you can use it. my laptop has lover specs and i can use it without too much issues

[@GakTau-GT]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="157">2:37</a> UPDATES?😮

[@cassidyamatt-carter7905]

I would watch a part 2! It would be cool to see if you could get any other operating system on there that isn’t windows because I don’t think that pc would handle any of them

[@T3chn0cr1s1s]

Install Windows 7 Ultimate pls

[@BNWilliamGaming]

Nice video! Here’s a free sub!

[@FreeFirx7]

I think Windows installation cannot be installed despite screen resolution defect or bigger technical issues. Ok try again later.

[@Arax.__.]

If you do make another video on it, I highly suggest nobara linux. Its rather light, easy to set up, you might even be able to do some "Gaming".

[@Rullino32]

You could try installing a version of Android x86 or some Linux distro if you want to.

[@neurobioboy]

Part 2 please!

[@titanium2902]

Install arch on it

[@johnduty4505]

Lubuntu it's work very well on this laptop .

[@Rya656]

Concrets on 400 subscribers

[@sushantdeula6852]

That <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="0">0:00</a> sound effect was 💀

[@thoi637]

" glory hole " ... 💀

[@macieknogaj247]

Holy moly its the eee pee cee

[@lucashallwas]

You should put windows 8 in it

[@OmegaWolf]

Wait no way you actually spent 40 Dollars on that 💀, I usually see ones for like 10 or less auctions on ebay

[@Hharshit01]

Nostalgia

[@MinefighterLP]

I have a similar one, Toshiba netbook, 32bit atom cpu, and 4 gigs of ram. I made it somewhat usable with using Debian 12 32-bit. Office stuff and light web browsing works fine. No youtube tho :D

[@MinefighterLP]

Using rtv and lynx in the console makes you also able to somewhat have fun browsing the internet too, because its text only but much faster since the atom cpu struggles a lot with modern websites.

[@RogerioPereiradaSilva77]

KZbin is doable as long as don't expect to use it inside a web browser. Apps like SMTube - that uses yt-dlp under the hood to retrieve the video and a standalone media player such as mpv or vlc to reproduce the media - allow you to easily browse and watch KZbin videos. It obviously works better when limiting the video resolution to 480p but I've had luck with many videos in 720p ith my EeePC that has similar specs of the one in the video.

[@NimaN-kg1hr]

My university professor still uses one 😅

[@NomadByte]

haha thats great

[@L7NK]

Install Windows XP or a lightweight modern distro :3

[@Dragonfire511]

EEEPEEECEEEE.

[@s1oplus-k2i]

Try out lubuntu

[@rubeusvombatus]

Part 2 with linux and some upgrades maybe. I have a Toshiba netbook that's much more powerful than this and it barely runs Linux Mint, you can't really use it comfortably.

[@melis-d6y]

Install windows 7 starter

[@wilson228]

Eeepeecee

[@HypeLevels]

Oh hey I have one of these ahahaha

[@AnonymousNyanCat-qg6bb]

You can run Windows 10 To Go on that machine. Use Rufus to put it on a USB Drive.

[@SenpaiBoyRock]

Can installed Android 4.4 on eeepc

[@Kayraman256]

My dear, get windows on this atom and play half life

[@justarandomdude457]

Try installing windows on it

[@NomadByte]

haha that would be funny but I dont think it has enough storage for that. Its only got 8gb lol.

[@FubarMike]

You almost never see these running their native custom linux OS. These should never have come with windows. That is why they sucked.

[@DavidSmith-wg3wx]

Put some random lightweight Linux distro on it