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.
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
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
I tried void with xfce on it, but it was bad experience, arch Linux protested installing on atom too. Artix worked nicely, but even installing programs was a challenge. Eventually I found lxle and it was by far the best, it's somehow even usable in web browsing. You might also look into pup os or psychos, they should run great. Some of this Intel atom netbooks are surprisingly great backup pc/typing machines
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.
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.
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 UA-cam, 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.
A eeePC was my first laptop, got it given to me by my nan. Trying to find my original model number for my eeePC but this one was strikingly similar, glad to see that somebody is making a video on these. Love your stuff man.
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.
For a long time I used the EEEPC701 with Puppy Linux 528 installed. I only stopped because getting a web browser that worked became really hard. It could play videos just fine. Unlike the one you got, it has a VGA plug on it so I could use a big monitor on it. I could take videos and music and play them when I flew. The fact that all browsers went 64 bits was the problem.
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.
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.
3:06 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
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!
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.
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
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).
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.
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
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
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.
@@NomadByte I'm glad to hear that! thanks for taking the time to give void linux a try, and i'm excited for the next video now haha :D as an additional fact, even though void linux doesn't include as much software on its repos as let's say, debian or ubuntu, there's this cool tool called xdeb on github that lets you "transform" .deb packages (what debian and ubuntu package manager uses) into .xbps packages supported by void's package manager. this way i was even able to install discord on the past (not on the netbook, but i'm using that as an example). you can easily get any weird package you may be missing on void without the need to compile the source code, just remember that packages with dependencies will need the dependencies installed first :o
I found one of these intel atom netbooks in the trash and I later found out there's where they belong... even the lightest linux distros run like crap due to these limited cpus. Probably the only operating system that I found a little bit useful is android x86. Some emulators, lightweight browsers, and open source apps work surprisingly well
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 UA-cam in 144p.
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.
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).
so this thing has a single core Intel and my Eee Pad (not even a PC) has a dual core Nvidia thats cool. I wonder if I can run some type of Windows or even Linux distro on mine
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
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
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.
UA-cam 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 UA-cam 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.
There was also the EEEpc1201n: available with a 64 bit HT dual core Atom running at 1.6 ghz, paired to an Nvidia ion GPU. The battery , however, only lasted for two and a half hours That one could address 3gb of ram and run windows 7 fairly well, but at a $500 price tag in 2010, a lot of people would rather go with a more traditional size of laptop. I didn't, and never regretted it.
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.
the F keys not being there makes a whole lotta sense but it never ceases to look super odd.
The predecessor to the Chromebook.
no, the Android Netbooks were predecessors of the Chromebooks.
Oi mate, it's the EeePeeCee! Better fire up a nugget with it!
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.
The problem was they ran windows. With lightweight Linux distress of the time they were alright.
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
Agreed.
they were sub 100 dollar pcs at a time when the pc used market wasn't really there. they're fine.
100? Where? They were typically twice as much, or even more.
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
gonna likely use void. It seems like a good choice.
@@NomadByteI have a similar system in a Lenovo Thinkpad x140e. I installed XFCE Linux Mint and it works pretty damn good for a potato. 😂
I was gonna try xfce mint but it doesn't have enough storage lmao
I feel like Artix might be overkill, because Artix is x86_64 only, I'd choose Alpine or Void for a minimal and speedy experience.
I tried void with xfce on it, but it was bad experience, arch Linux protested installing on atom too. Artix worked nicely, but even installing programs was a challenge. Eventually I found lxle and it was by far the best, it's somehow even usable in web browsing. You might also look into pup os or psychos, they should run great. Some of this Intel atom netbooks are surprisingly great backup pc/typing machines
MeGo is a Linux-based operating system that was an alternative to Windows 7 Starter for the Asus Eee PC. Pretty cool little machine.
I heard that a Nokia phone also ran this operating system.
@@resolvanlemmy That's actually crazy. Must have been a really popular OS.
I knew it was Linux just based on the default X cursor haha!
@@billybobjankens12 Yup. I experimented with Linux on my Acer netbook before switching to Windows 7 Pro (couldn’t get Starter to activate)
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.
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.
@MrMoto655 Thanks for the reminder on the defrag setting, totally forgot about that.
4:22 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.
ah alright thanks
These guys run games from the early 2000s better than today's machines.
Angry aussie man appears in background, seems he is saying something about the microsoft bindows.
Oh, my PKCells.
ah yes, windows 🅱indows
dankpods???
literal correction moment
Did you mean: Angry aussie man appears in background, seems like he is saying something about the *_michaelsoft binbows._*
The first half second of this video and I already know I have to watch until the end XD
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 UA-cam, 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.
Definitely do a part 2. Bodhi linux Legacy or Puppy linux would work killer on this
Pure Nostalgia, I bought this back in 2010 for my final year in High School.
A eeePC was my first laptop, got it given to me by my nan. Trying to find my original model number for my eeePC but this one was strikingly similar, glad to see that somebody is making a video on these. Love your stuff man.
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.
That sound effect though. Luggin' the beast over the desk.
For a long time I used the EEEPC701 with Puppy Linux 528 installed. I only stopped because getting a web browser that worked became really hard. It could play videos just fine. Unlike the one you got, it has a VGA plug on it so I could use a big monitor on it. I could take videos and music and play them when I flew. The fact that all browsers went 64 bits was the problem.
I have a same specs Samsung NC10. I installed Q4OS and i can now use it for everyday tasks.
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.
Puppy linux i'd love to see on this thing
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.
3:06 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
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!
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.
Finally, someone is talking about Intel Atom in 2024. You deserve a sub.
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
It needs 32-bit os, so I suggest to install antiX on it. I think it would work great on it.
yes i still use antix on asus eee pc 1015cx it has intel atom n2600 and 1gb ram
antix consumes only 100mb or lesser ram
Imagine installing *Windows 11* on a *Eee PC.*
Ah yes, the EEE PEE CEEE
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).
Install Debian with IceWM :3
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.
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
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
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.
@@NomadByte I'm glad to hear that! thanks for taking the time to give void linux a try, and i'm excited for the next video now haha :D
as an additional fact, even though void linux doesn't include as much software on its repos as let's say, debian or ubuntu, there's this cool tool called xdeb on github that lets you "transform" .deb packages (what debian and ubuntu package manager uses) into .xbps packages supported by void's package manager. this way i was even able to install discord on the past (not on the netbook, but i'm using that as an example). you can easily get any weird package you may be missing on void without the need to compile the source code, just remember that packages with dependencies will need the dependencies installed first :o
Great video 😃
I have one like it. I put windows 7 for running old windows apps, and Debian/xfce for going online.
"Glory hole" I spit out my drink dude lol
I found one of these intel atom netbooks in the trash and I later found out there's where they belong... even the lightest linux distros run like crap due to these limited cpus. Probably the only operating system that I found a little bit useful is android x86. Some emulators, lightweight browsers, and open source apps work surprisingly well
Loved the netbook form factor. Its just too bad their processor and ram configs were attrotious.
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 UA-cam in 144p.
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.
Your content is interesting i love it
The project ended brutally.
you can use it. my laptop has lover specs and i can use it without too much issues
I've heard 32-bit Linux or even Windows Vista or 7 runs well on these. You should try it.
2:37 UPDATES?😮
I think Windows installation cannot be installed despite screen resolution defect or bigger technical issues. Ok try again later.
My favorite computer, the AAY PEE CEE
" glory hole " ... 💀
Meego was future of Nokia that never come.
Wonder if Kolibri could run on this. Requires like 8mb of ram tho and a floppy/cd drive.
Nostalgia
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).
so this thing has a single core Intel and my Eee Pad (not even a PC) has a dual core Nvidia thats cool. I wonder if I can run some type of Windows or even Linux distro on mine
I'm literally forced to use one because the rest of my computers are fucked up
How about a full install of Puppy Linux on that Eee PC 😀? I'm sure it'd run better than what's on there!
Part 2 please!
Put tiny core linux on that and be happy
you should install Windows on that and se how slow it is
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
Lubuntu it's work very well on this laptop .
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".
My university professor still uses one 😅
haha thats great
"Gloryhole" 😂😂😂 I would call it an access panel...lololol
atom cpu good for networking needs
Install windows xp and look how good it performance in games and then try windows 7 to look how it performance in games
It runs MeeGo? I thought only Nokia N900 runs it
I really hated the one I had
Windows Starter sucked it’s terrible slow.
Install zorin os lite, it runs like butter even with a HDD and an atom cpu (N450)
You could try installing a version of Android x86 or some Linux distro if you want to.
Mate it’s the Eee Pee Cee
Nice video! Here’s a free sub!
That 0:00 sound effect was 💀
You should put windows 8 in it
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
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.
UA-cam 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 UA-cam 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.
install devuan (not debian) linux with lxde(sktop environment)
gloryhole is the last word i expected to hear in a 5 minute video on an eee pc
They also came with Windows 7 Starter 🤣
Install Windows 7 Ultimate pls
mate not the EeePeeCee
try windows vista operating system
Holy moly its the eee pee cee
Install arch on it
Wait no way you actually spent 40 Dollars on that 💀, I usually see ones for like 10 or less auctions on ebay
EEEPEEECEEEE.
Concrets on 400 subscribers
try to install windows on it
Install Windows XP or a lightweight modern distro :3
Eeepeecee
There was also the EEEpc1201n: available with a 64 bit HT dual core Atom running at 1.6 ghz, paired to an Nvidia ion GPU. The battery , however, only lasted for two and a half hours
That one could address 3gb of ram and run windows 7 fairly well, but at a $500 price tag in 2010, a lot of people would rather go with a more traditional size of laptop. I didn't, and never regretted it.
Try out lubuntu
Oh hey I have one of these ahahaha
Install windows 7 starter
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.
Can installed Android 4.4 on eeepc
You can run Windows 10 To Go on that machine. Use Rufus to put it on a USB Drive.
Try installing windows on it
haha that would be funny but I dont think it has enough storage for that. Its only got 8gb lol.
You almost never see these running their native custom linux OS. These should never have come with windows. That is why they sucked.
My dear, get windows on this atom and play half life