[HN Gopher] Asus Eee PC
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Asus Eee PC
Author : tosh
Score : 15 points
Date : 2025-03-08 17:47 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| marssaxman wrote:
| Loved my little Eee 901! It was the first computer I could treat
| as a casual accessory, not just a precious piece of precision
| equipment. I would take it anywhere - ski trips, the workshop,
| the pub; I wrote a fair bit of code on that machine while sitting
| at the bar down the street with a pint at my elbow. It was cheap
| enough that I figured I could just buy another one, if it broke,
| but it never did. I eventually graduated to second-hand
| Thinkpads, a habit I've maintained ever since.
| ndsipa_pomu wrote:
| It's a shame that tablets have made this kind of form factor less
| desirable (also Microsoft did hobble them by reducing Windows
| licenses for them and thus the machines became less capable than
| the Linux powered ones). I'm a big fan of UMPCs - there's
| something very useful about having a physical keyboard so you can
| do serious work when needed but don't want to carry around a
| large laptop.
|
| I've got a Chuwi Minibook (8inch screen) for that kind of usage
| and happily runs Linux on it nowadays (older versions of Ubuntu
| used to periodically hang which I believe was an issue with a
| driver for the disk).
| moritzwarhier wrote:
| That was really a time to be alive. It was shortly after I moved
| out from my parents and my mother got one instead of a tablet.
| She's tech-savvy I have to say :)
|
| All she wanted was an actually portable Windows device, and Asus
| delivered.
|
| Celeron was as hot as iPhone for a moment then! There was a real
| hype around this device category ("Netbook" was the German
| marketing term)
| krapp wrote:
| I dusted off my old 701 with Puppy Linux and it still boots. It's
| a shame that model is _just_ too small to be useful to me.
|
| It was perfect with fluxbox though (except for the size.)
| K0balt wrote:
| I still have several of the acre 7"-9" netbooks, waiting for a
| mission in life.
| howard941 wrote:
| This puppy ran X on FreeBSD beautifully, touchpad and all. Very
| handy for toting around to work offsite.
| oniony wrote:
| I didn't buy a Eee PC, instead picking up an Acer Aspire One.
| Loved that little thing - it was great on the train - and was
| very sad when Arch discontinied support for 32bit processors. By
| that time the netbook market had died a death. (I, too, went to
| second-hand Thinkpads at this point.)
| roughly wrote:
| It's a larger device, but I'm hoping the new Framework 12 comes
| in at a price point to fill the "cheap hacker laptop" category.
| The original eee was a fantastic "throw it in your bag & bring it
| anywhere", and it all but required running Linux to get anything
| out of it.
|
| There was a brief side line on netbooks where you could swap in a
| daylight-readable display of the sort used in the OLPCs, too, but
| I never had the confluence of money, time, and availability to
| make that happen.
| CapricornNoble wrote:
| I think mine had the CMOS battery fail and I never got around to
| replacing it. Just pulled it out of a Rubbermaid container last
| week and thought "man I should get this up and running again,
| what a fun little cyberdeck it was."
|
| This machine was key to helping me learn Backtrack Linux (Kali's
| predecessor) and introduced me to Fluxbox.
| IshKebab wrote:
| I had one. IMO they were crap, and died out for good reason.
| Cheap, but not good value because you never wanted to use one if
| you could avoid it.
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