I wonder what codec they were done with as that has a huge bearing on the size? I have terrabytes of music but as FLAC or DSD / SACD etc, with a single album being 1GB or more in size at times.
@@EgoShredder My music library is about 79 GB and it's all high bitrate mp3. 8 GB is fairly small I'd say, but understandable for such a device. 79 GB is about 8500 songs. If you just listen to a few bands or just download whatever you like without collecting the entire discography then you should be fine with the roughly 800 songs 8 GB will allow you to have. That's a generous 10mb per song. That's good for an mp3 file.
@@EremittV I have to disclose my dislike for audio compression for serious listening, but for casual stuff and podcasts then it is acceptable. However if you preference for music is in electronic genres and general popular music, then MP3 will suffice just fine. Anything that features mostly acoustic instruments and anything with a complex harmonic structure, will sound REALLY awful with compression even at the highest and best settings. Not sure how many albums I have in my collection, but it was around 2000 a few years ago last time I checked. I upgraded my NAS in 2014 and got 12TB storage to put inside it. I'm going to need to increase that fairly soon, or delete stuff whichever.
@@EgoShredder I fully understand, but for most people high bitrate mp3's will suffice. Quality of sound also depends on the headphones, amps, etc. you're using and most people simply don't have the equipment to get the most out of FLAC. I have subscribed to Deezer for FLAC listening and my personal library is mainly for my iPod. If i want to listen to flac, I want to listen to it at my desk anyway. That's where my best equipment is. My library has files starting from 2006, so I chose consistency (all MP3) over lossless.
@@julianstechsation never had a atom or used one but i do know that going from a core 2 duo laptop to a i5/i7 one , even if it's 1st/2nd gen is a blessing
now I'd normally say "I see you're a man of culture as well" but he's almost reached 1m subs... so dank pods isn't our "little secret" anymore 😭 glad for him tho!
@@hiki_komori6285 yeah by "our" I didn't mean Australians... I'm not even an Aussie! tho I do have cousins in Australia, I am Greek! and yeah I doubt anyone knows him in Greece either! only UA-cam and his channel analytics know for sure
I love this video. Going into high school in september 7th 2020 and though i already have a computer good enough for homework purposes, this video made me very happy
Used this same laptop for a year, for watching youtube(I watched in 720p on invideous) and listening music on spotify, I had puppy linux on it, and somehow it has original good battery (that worked for like 2 hours off the charger), and I bought this laptop for only $20! Definitely would recommend it.
I recently bought one of these at a local Goodwill, and upgrading it was dirt cheap. It has 8gb RAM (yes, it will handle that much) and I installed a spare SSD, and it's running AntiX Linux very smoothly.
@@frzfab Nope, older models were 32-bit but the latest ones had a 64-bit CPU. For example, the one in the video has an Atom N450 that is 64-bit, my 10-inch Asus Eee X101H (which I still have with Lubuntu installed) is equipped with a dual core Atom N570 that is 64-bit as well.
I think this laptop would be awesome as a distraction-free typewriter machine with puppy Linux. Or as a jukebox for a collection of mp3/FLAC files, if plugged into a decent set of external speakers.
I once an idea of a distraction-free typewriter: barebones Arch (don't even install the Wi-Fi drivers or a GUI) and set nano or vim or whatever you like as the login shell (yes, I'm serious). The interface will look ugly, but is quite literally 100% distraction free.
I've got a very similar setup for my early morning crack of dawn writing sessions, and such a machine is PERFECT for productive writing. You're not going to do six ways of research at the same time, but for putting the maximum amount of words on screen quickly and efficiently...it's the way to go. No slipping over into a quick gaming session (that turns into a couple hours) when the writing momentum wanes. And good writing machines like this are always cheap! I run Mint on mine with the XFCE4 desktop...minimum CPU requirements, maximum efficiency.
We have a bunch of these we took out of service at my school district. Quite interesting to see them in use, although in recent years they were downgraded to just allowing people to clock in on the web based time clock
I picked up a ul20a just before Christmas for £48 and have had a lot of fun playing with it. The physical design is very similar to this machine but it has an SU7300 dualcore processor and runs both Windows 10 and Linux Mint nicely. The SU7300 has Intel 4500 MHD graphics which are capable of running Minecraft and a number of XBox-era PC titles like Splinter Cell at reasonable frame rates. One of the big advantages over the Atom machines is being able to run 8GB dual-channel RAM and I’ve also convinced it to boot from a 4TB SSD just to see what’s possible. The wi-fi is mini-PCIE so upgradeable to modern 802.11ac cards. All in all these Asus machines are nicely built and with SSD and modern wi-fi feel a lot more responsive than they did back in the day.
A device like this is begging for the h264ify chrome extension for smooth playback. Nvidia ion doesn’t accelerate the codecs UA-cam defaults to today, but does smoothly play back up to 1080p h264 video, which is why it was so valuable at the time.
I have a similar Asus Netbook and I use it whenever I feel like using Linux. I use a low resource Linux distro which really helps the performance of the netbook.
I had one of these in 2012 - 2016. It was ok, but when I tried to upgrade it from Windows 7 to Windows 10, it didn't work. Now I have an Acer chromebook 314.
I used to own a Dell mini 9 back in 2010, at the height of netbook era. Performance is crap, but it boasted a fanless design which was quite rare back then.
I had one , the eepc 900 with celeron 630 Mhz, 1GB ddr2 , 4GB soldered + 8GB socket ssd, 8.9" 1024x600, win xp starter. The 4GB ssd dead within 2 years, xp running in the socketed 8GB ssd was much slower than traditional hdd. I use it for remote desktop to my desktop when working in factory site. Finally I gave it to family for his kid, after I had a real compact laptop.
I have a 2007 Eee PC from ASUS and it works ok with Arch Linux on it. I use it for a portable word processor and music jukebox. But other than that I am on my HP Omen. Great video as always. Ciao!
These netbooks were a plague back then. Shitty performance, almost no upgrade path, bad build quality, and overpriced for what you were sold. The only thing speaking for these devices was the fact that they were small, cheaper than normal laptops and OK-ish for basic tasks. I saw those things EVERYWHERE when in college in the early 2010's and most died within the first year or two.
My idea would be Arch with any window manager. I would skip over the desktop environment entirely to try and squeeze out as much performance as possible even if not much. For something easy but still even if barely user friendly recommend IceWM as it looks similar to Windows 9x.
I have a 2007 laptop and had the microprocessor swapped out for a dual core processor running at 2.1 GHz, Mint xfce, DSD, and UA-cam ran fine after that. I almost forgot: I used an Ethernet connection.
My school used a very similar model for a couple of years. There is actually a dual-core variant of this laptop that will accept up to 4GB of RAM. I know this because these were the ones my school had.
I don't think the times of low-powered, tiny laptops are really over. You still can get them if you look for them... for instance, I saw another video for a $129 laptop which would be pretty much today's equivalent of the one you're reviewing here. I bought one 2 years ago for € 199 at the local Penny Markt... it has a quadcore Atom processor at 1.44 GHz, 32 GB of SSD, (I think) 4 GB of RAM and a 12" 1920x1048 display and runs Windows 10. It's fine if you just want to type up document or maintain databases on it, and it even runs UA-cam smootly... just don't expect it to do really well at streaming over UA-cam or at high performance games. It's actually so low powered that the power adapter is only 5V 2.4 A which means an average power bank can be a full substitute for it. And it only weighs a bit over 2 lbs, so it's very light to take along with you. And it's totally silent since it has no fans... it does have a speaker though, and even 2 built-in microphones to record in stereo!
Linux Mint for sure runs faster than w7/8/10 on similar hardware but there are still some lower spec distros out there :) Puppy linux should working even better on that hw.
This was my first student laptop :D At the time, it was a very decent performance for such a small device. But I had two RAM modules - 2x2GB. I played CoD Modern Warfare in lectures :P
One question, is it 64bit win 7? I bought a new laptop for $200 on black Friday and it only came with 2 gigs of ram, max of 4, and 64bit win 7. It was slower than hell! I changed to 32bit Win 7 and it sped up considerably even without extra ram.
I have three of these ION netbooks and they are awesome but the best one has been the HP Mini 311 as its the only one that has full XP driver support. Windows XP + an SSD results in a mini power house thst dominates any old game.
I think it's because they promised so much freedom. With a lightweight Linux you can pretty much accomplish that. I do mobile writing on a similar device because it's definitely distraction-free. Can't play a single one of my favorite games on it! :D
@@k.b.tidwell yeah true! The marketing was really solid haha! Absolutely. Lightweight distros are killer on older devices like that. I still want to get an 11 inch MacBook Air and get puppy Linux or MATE Mint running on it.
I have a photo somewhere of the first Netbook I ever saw which was an ASUS Eee PC - And from memory it had 4GB of storage, was being sold at Grace Bros/Myer and was running a Linux Distro
Nathan i did find a eee pc at a thrift store bought a charger and I Instaled Linux and it ran better than windows 10! Also it came with windows 7 starter originally and no external gpu!
I got a battery for my Dell that is similar to this for $15. Actually I just found one specifically for this model for $18. There are good deals on batteries for some of these netbooks out there.
I used to have an Eee PC and it was okay with Windows 7/8.1 and Arch Linux seemed to work fine too... And it had the same problem, a failed battery. It was still in use until a week ago when the Charger broke.
I had one just before it went to discrete graphics. Asia had a few models that looked really good, ultrabooks before ultrabooks. MacBook Air pretty much had no rivals at that point
The first laptop I could call my own was an open box EEE PEE CEE 1005HAB with Windows XP, a gift from my late grandfather. Unfortunately, the board stopped working. I'd love to get another one, since that model means quite a bit to me.
Astonishing how things have changed, my core ryzen 5 4600hs runs in less then 10watts most of time in normal workloads like office and browsing which is comparable to tdp of this cpu.
Ahh I had one of those. Neatest thing around the time it came out. Parents had gotten me one for school. Yeah that Intel atom was pathetic, and speakers were like birthday card speakers but it was the battery life and portability that was so great. Jump to 2014 when I was ticked off at Windows 8 and got a MacBook Air. That thing had decent specs and battery life!
I probably would stick with windows 7 and then install super low requirment internet browser like palemoon, basilisk or something similar. Given that this is Nvidia brand gpu using linux is limiting this machine. If you use proper drivers and ssd drive this could handle 1080p/30 frames which is enough for movies playback altough given that youtube removed support for 30 frames and is currently forcing 60 frames its probably cant play youtube well. Good job on restoring it!
Okay everyone, together now.
"Eee Pee Cee"
A dank pods fan in the wild
Eee Pee Cee
Eee Pee Cee
I have an Eee Pee Cee
Eee Pee Cee
"and 8 gigabytes worth of... music"
Thank fucking god
I wonder what codec they were done with as that has a huge bearing on the size? I have terrabytes of music but as FLAC or DSD / SACD etc, with a single album being 1GB or more in size at times.
I was surprised tbh
@@EgoShredder My music library is about 79 GB and it's all high bitrate mp3. 8 GB is fairly small I'd say, but understandable for such a device. 79 GB is about 8500 songs. If you just listen to a few bands or just download whatever you like without collecting the entire discography then you should be fine with the roughly 800 songs 8 GB will allow you to have. That's a generous 10mb per song. That's good for an mp3 file.
@@EremittV I have to disclose my dislike for audio compression for serious listening, but for casual stuff and podcasts then it is acceptable. However if you preference for music is in electronic genres and general popular music, then MP3 will suffice just fine. Anything that features mostly acoustic instruments and anything with a complex harmonic structure, will sound REALLY awful with compression even at the highest and best settings. Not sure how many albums I have in my collection, but it was around 2000 a few years ago last time I checked. I upgraded my NAS in 2014 and got 12TB storage to put inside it. I'm going to need to increase that fairly soon, or delete stuff whichever.
@@EgoShredder I fully understand, but for most people high bitrate mp3's will suffice. Quality of sound also depends on the headphones, amps, etc. you're using and most people simply don't have the equipment to get the most out of FLAC. I have subscribed to Deezer for FLAC listening and my personal library is mainly for my iPod. If i want to listen to flac, I want to listen to it at my desk anyway. That's where my best equipment is. My library has files starting from 2006, so I chose consistency (all MP3) over lossless.
I actually used a very similiar laptop for school, i still remember how it was slow
Me 2 … I hated those Intel Atom things… My school used “at least” Windows XP… because they were THAT slow (I think they are still using them today)
@@julianstechsation never had a atom or used one but i do know that going from a core 2 duo laptop to a i5/i7 one , even if it's 1st/2nd gen is a blessing
Lol
Is it a eeepc 900ha?
I used the very same laptop, same color too. The display was nice, keyboard felt Ok, but yeah painfully slow back in 2009-ish.
If it's an eeepc, maybe there could be a dankpods crossover episode?
now I'd normally say "I see you're a man of culture as well" but he's almost reached 1m subs... so dank pods isn't our "little secret" anymore 😭 glad for him tho!
@@pierrosdragatis6820 Well at least here in italy no one knows who is dankpods and that’s bad
@@hiki_komori6285 yeah by "our" I didn't mean Australians... I'm not even an Aussie! tho I do have cousins in Australia, I am Greek! and yeah I doubt anyone knows him in Greece either! only UA-cam and his channel analytics know for sure
@@pierrosdragatis6820 ohhh ok I wasn’t understanding, thanks
@@hiki_komori6285 ehm... Ciao? 😂
I love this video. Going into high school in september 7th 2020 and though i already have a computer good enough for homework purposes, this video made me very happy
If his room doesn’t reek of eucalyptus oil…
Edit: wow thanks for all the likes :)
lol
it's got an nvidia ion, amazing, I've bought lots of netbooks and I've yet to find one with that
ikr?
ITS THE EEEPEECEE!
Nice little dingus
Used this same laptop for a year, for watching youtube(I watched in 720p on invideous) and listening music on spotify, I had puppy linux on it, and somehow it has original good battery (that worked for like 2 hours off the charger), and I bought this laptop for only $20! Definitely would recommend it.
1:47 from “psivewri drops the eucalyptus oil”
should i make a compilation of "now it's time to give it a healthy dose of eucalyptus oil"?
@@angw3l yes lol
@@angw3l DEFINITELY
1:27 for anyone curious, the car is a Mitsubishi FTO.
We need a tour of the collection! :D
“Slaps roof of netbook “
This boy can run a whole 2 chrome tabs
Hahahahaha, I am on the floor now!
@@noway4040 still?
@@jc-px8ox Yep, been here for three days. My Rumba is about to assassinate me. :)
@@noway4040 rip
@@noway4040 still?
I enjoy your old computer videos. Keep them coming, Nathan!
I love how he says exactly what they left on the computer lol
Ok
I recently bought one of these at a local Goodwill, and upgrading it was dirt cheap. It has 8gb RAM (yes, it will handle that much) and I installed a spare SSD, and it's running AntiX Linux very smoothly.
DDR2 didn't had memory sticks bigger than 2gb. Laptop presented in the video was terrible back in 2010 and never had any upgrade options planned.
@@arivald6677 Probably he bought one of the latest Eee models, they were equipped with DDR3 so it's possible to try putting a 8Gb stick
These are 32bit machines that can only address 4 gigs of ram. You got lucky and bought a better laptop and didnt know it. Great Job!
@@frzfab Nope, older models were 32-bit but the latest ones had a 64-bit CPU. For example, the one in the video has an Atom N450 that is 64-bit, my 10-inch Asus Eee X101H (which I still have with Lubuntu installed) is equipped with a dual core Atom N570 that is 64-bit as well.
@@whiteyuko u guys got lucky, they are starting to become collectors items it seems. Ebay doesn't have em for less than $100.
I agree! Install a light Linux distro on it and it will run (kinda) smooth! I did the same with some thinclients.
I'd install a really old version of ubuntu or debian on one of those laptops
I think this laptop would be awesome as a distraction-free typewriter machine with puppy Linux. Or as a jukebox for a collection of mp3/FLAC files, if plugged into a decent set of external speakers.
Debian that just launches LibreOffice / GDocs / whatever. Yes indeedo.
I once an idea of a distraction-free typewriter: barebones Arch (don't even install the Wi-Fi drivers or a GUI) and set nano or vim or whatever you like as the login shell (yes, I'm serious). The interface will look ugly, but is quite literally 100% distraction free.
I've got a very similar setup for my early morning crack of dawn writing sessions, and such a machine is PERFECT for productive writing. You're not going to do six ways of research at the same time, but for putting the maximum amount of words on screen quickly and efficiently...it's the way to go.
No slipping over into a quick gaming session (that turns into a couple hours) when the writing momentum wanes. And good writing machines like this are always cheap!
I run Mint on mine with the XFCE4 desktop...minimum CPU requirements, maximum efficiency.
A great laptop running tuning studio or something
@@k.b.tidwell I like Wordgrinder for that stuff. No worrying about WYSIWIG formatting. What program do you prefer?
We have a bunch of these we took out of service at my school district. Quite interesting to see them in use, although in recent years they were downgraded to just allowing people to clock in on the web based time clock
could you test more thinkpads? im a bit addicted to thinkpads, love those reviews
thinkpads are hot
@@doctahjonez facts
@@Irysuwu im watching this on a t520 with a i7 2630qm and win7, with egpu i can play gtav maxxed out@ 40 to 60 fps
Watch LGR
I'm too poor to get thinkpads.
I was thinking of sending you my eee PC last year, but then I looked up shipping from the US to AU. Ten times more than the system is actually worth!
I always like to imagine what a modern netbook could look like, especially with arm processors becoming more common in laptops.
honestly modern macs are essentially netbooks: they're all battery with a tiny board alot of them being fanless
The previous owner has good taste in television. Also nice FTO!
I think Psivewri himself has the same taste, considering how his server is called "Flancrest"
As another aussie youtuber says,
*EEE PEE CEE*
Nana selling on gumtree style..
frank smells
5:30 Try the Xfce edition, the Cinnamon desktop is very heavy (The games ran well because they were full-screen)
This is why I love this channel!
Hi Psivewri, what a great way to keep clean every laptop in your reviews!!! Best regards from Chile!!!
Always pleased to see you post another video. I know I'll enjoy a few moments of civilized company from across the world. Keep them coming!
I picked up a ul20a just before Christmas for £48 and have had a lot of fun playing with it. The physical design is very similar to this machine but it has an SU7300 dualcore processor and runs both Windows 10 and Linux Mint nicely. The SU7300 has Intel 4500 MHD graphics which are capable of running Minecraft and a number of XBox-era PC titles like Splinter Cell at reasonable frame rates. One of the big advantages over the Atom machines is being able to run 8GB dual-channel RAM and I’ve also convinced it to boot from a 4TB SSD just to see what’s possible. The wi-fi is mini-PCIE so upgradeable to modern 802.11ac cards. All in all these Asus machines are nicely built and with SSD and modern wi-fi feel a lot more responsive than they did back in the day.
I really like that you tried linux on this. :-)
Enjoyed the video heaps mate, keep it up.
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A device like this is begging for the h264ify chrome extension for smooth playback. Nvidia ion doesn’t accelerate the codecs UA-cam defaults to today, but does smoothly play back up to 1080p h264 video, which is why it was so valuable at the time.
I love ur vids man! Keep up the amazing work :D
Long gone the demand of low spec small notebook...
Chromebook : who am I?
Is it just me but DOES EVERY AUSTRALIAN UA-cam HAVE A 1990's SUPRA. Ngl though it's a cool car
Edit: I'm not an expert in cars
Not every Australian youtuber, DankPods has a much better car than a Supra
@@TopGear25S what's the car?
Fiat 126p niki
It's from Poland, where i live
This car isn't a Toyota Supra it's a Mitsubishi fto .
Always waiting for awesome video, thanks!
An Haitch Pea Eee Pee Cee. Beauty👍🏻
Sadly it’s not an XP eee pee cee
I have a similar Asus Netbook and I use it whenever I feel like using Linux.
I use a low resource Linux distro which really helps the performance of the netbook.
i have such a eee-pc - now with an SSD good enough for kids to discover and play with
I learned alot within using a netbook that by the time I got a mildly better macbook it felt WAAYYY FASTER!
An Australian with an EEEPEECEE, where have I seen that before???? :p
Definitely not from an Aussie drummer
D A N K M U S
@@hiki_komori6285 W E G O T B E E T S 😂
@@minty6206 S A M S O N the cheap version of simpsons
D a n k p o d s
Great laptop love old tech❤
2:59 “Well have to remove the warranty. Which is still valid.” 😂😂😂😂
I had one of these in 2012 - 2016. It was ok, but when I tried to upgrade it from Windows 7 to Windows 10, it didn't work. Now I have an Acer chromebook 314.
First, the space shuttle. Second, the warranty. You got jokes man. Subtle! Just how I like it
That thermal bubble wrap is what "Hello Fresh" and the like home delivery meals are shipped in.
I love these videos! Keep doing what your doing 😄
I used to own a Dell mini 9 back in 2010, at the height of netbook era. Performance is crap, but it boasted a fanless design which was quite rare back then.
I had one , the eepc 900 with celeron 630 Mhz, 1GB ddr2 , 4GB soldered + 8GB socket ssd, 8.9" 1024x600, win xp starter. The 4GB ssd dead within 2 years, xp running in the socketed 8GB ssd was much slower than traditional hdd. I use it for remote desktop to my desktop when working in factory site. Finally I gave it to family for his kid, after I had a real compact laptop.
I have a 2007 Eee PC from ASUS and it works ok with Arch Linux on it. I use it for a portable word processor and music jukebox. But other than that I am on my HP Omen. Great video as always. Ciao!
These netbooks were a plague back then. Shitty performance, almost no upgrade path, bad build quality, and overpriced for what you were sold. The only thing speaking for these devices was the fact that they were small, cheaper than normal laptops and OK-ish for basic tasks. I saw those things EVERYWHERE when in college in the early 2010's and most died within the first year or two.
My idea would be Arch with any window manager. I would skip over the desktop environment entirely to try and squeeze out as much performance as possible even if not much. For something easy but still even if barely user friendly recommend IceWM as it looks similar to Windows 9x.
Wait... Black books as in the comedy? No ways! I love that show!!
If you’re curious, Baker’s Delight is bakery in Downtown Minneapolis. Near a lake Calhoun? Idk, some sort of lake.
That's what he said "Eucalyptus Oil". I kinda like how he cleans it perfectly. wish I could have one...
I wonder if the netbook size would work today as daily drivers.
honestly there are some netbook-ish sized chromebooks and 2 in 1s out there. they are rather nice, but really too thin for my liking.
Totally. I rocked one from 2014 to 2018 and probably would still do it today.
anything can work for me honestly
I'd put up zorin os, overclock the CPU a bit maybe and that'd be pretty much it
@@angw3l there is no way you are OCing that Intel Atom CPU.
Wow, the person charging the least for a laptop seemingly put in the most effort to ship it properly.
I have a 2007 laptop and had the microprocessor swapped out for a dual core processor running at 2.1 GHz, Mint xfce, DSD, and UA-cam ran fine after that. I almost forgot: I used an Ethernet connection.
"those days have pretty much ended"
'Am I a joke to you?' Google Chromebook
Ah yea ...
'sob' G.C.
My school used a very similar model for a couple of years. There is actually a dual-core variant of this laptop that will accept up to 4GB of RAM. I know this because these were the ones my school had.
I don't think the times of low-powered, tiny laptops are really over. You still can get them if you look for them... for instance, I saw another video for a $129 laptop which would be pretty much today's equivalent of the one you're reviewing here. I bought one 2 years ago for € 199 at the local Penny Markt... it has a quadcore Atom processor at 1.44 GHz, 32 GB of SSD, (I think) 4 GB of RAM and a 12" 1920x1048 display and runs Windows 10. It's fine if you just want to type up document or maintain databases on it, and it even runs UA-cam smootly... just don't expect it to do really well at streaming over UA-cam or at high performance games. It's actually so low powered that the power adapter is only 5V 2.4 A which means an average power bank can be a full substitute for it. And it only weighs a bit over 2 lbs, so it's very light to take along with you. And it's totally silent since it has no fans... it does have a speaker though, and even 2 built-in microphones to record in stereo!
Linux Mint for sure runs faster than w7/8/10 on similar hardware but there are still some lower spec distros out there :) Puppy linux should working even better on that hw.
I got an Eee PC from a flea market for $10. :D
It had a bad battery, but I replaced that and all is good now.
Its EeeProCee now:D
This was my first student laptop :D At the time, it was a very decent performance for such a small device. But I had two RAM modules - 2x2GB.
I played CoD Modern Warfare in lectures :P
Honestly my favorite video
One question, is it 64bit win 7? I bought a new laptop for $200 on black Friday and it only came with 2 gigs of ram, max of 4, and 64bit win 7. It was slower than hell! I changed to 32bit Win 7 and it sped up considerably even without extra ram.
I have three of these ION netbooks and they are awesome but the best one has been the HP Mini 311 as its the only one that has full XP driver support. Windows XP + an SSD results in a mini power house thst dominates any old game.
I always wanted one of these, and have absolutely no idea why.
I think it's because they promised so much freedom. With a lightweight Linux you can pretty much accomplish that. I do mobile writing on a similar device because it's definitely distraction-free. Can't play a single one of my favorite games on it! :D
@@k.b.tidwell yeah true! The marketing was really solid haha! Absolutely. Lightweight distros are killer on older devices like that. I still want to get an 11 inch MacBook Air and get puppy Linux or MATE Mint running on it.
I have a photo somewhere of the first Netbook I ever saw which was an ASUS Eee PC - And from memory it had 4GB of storage, was being sold at Grace Bros/Myer and was running a Linux Distro
Nathan i did find a eee pc at a thrift store bought a charger and I Instaled Linux and it ran better than windows 10! Also it came with windows 7 starter originally and no external gpu!
Idk how this man can make short videos so entertaining
the last place i expected a Mitsubishi FTO was this channel
I've got Destiny 2 running on one of these. So much fun to tweak the setting on that haha.
I remember this laptop, this was actually my first laptop on 2013 and use it until it broke on 2021 of hdd failure. Farewell eeepc
You should definitely consider putting Neverware Chrome OS on these kinds of netbooks. I think you'll find the experience to be pretty good.
I got a battery for my Dell that is similar to this for $15. Actually I just found one specifically for this model for $18. There are good deals on batteries for some of these netbooks out there.
This is the most advanced calculator I've ever seen! 😱
I used to have an Eee PC and it was okay with Windows 7/8.1 and Arch Linux seemed to work fine too... And it had the same problem, a failed battery. It was still in use until a week ago when the Charger broke.
I had one just before it went to discrete graphics. Asia had a few models that looked really good, ultrabooks before ultrabooks. MacBook Air pretty much had no rivals at that point
nathan: *throws eucalyptus oil*
me: i hope he drops it again, ohhh he didnt
damn that Mitsubishi FTO during the FeiyuTech sponsor, looks sick af
Great work ❤
The first laptop I could call my own was an open box EEE PEE CEE 1005HAB with Windows XP, a gift from my late grandfather. Unfortunately, the board stopped working. I'd love to get another one, since that model means quite a bit to me.
if I had something like that I'd stick an SSD in and install a lightweight linux distro, just like you did here
Your MC Server is still online? Well done!
So excited!
Astonishing how things have changed, my core ryzen 5 4600hs runs in less then 10watts most of time in normal workloads like office and browsing which is comparable to tdp of this cpu.
Try Zorin 6 on those Atom typewriters. XP is also decent. Windows 10 takes a week to update.
Lubunto works alright too. For some reason I have never tried Zorin os.
I love it when you run Linux distros!
just wanted to say two things:
1) if i had owned that, i would've shoehorned a copy of Zorin OS in it
2) that black FTO looks sick! is it yours?
Oh man I remember touring with one of these. I hated it but worked for slow usage hahaha
Hi from Europe! Thanks for your interesting videos!
Was that a Supra in the sponsor portion of the video
It's a Mitsubishi FTO
Ahh I had one of those. Neatest thing around the time it came out. Parents had gotten me one for school. Yeah that Intel atom was pathetic, and speakers were like birthday card speakers but it was the battery life and portability that was so great. Jump to 2014 when I was ticked off at Windows 8 and got a MacBook Air. That thing had decent specs and battery life!
The name only suggests that this laptop was hated by people
*Buys $10 laptop* “Today’s video was made possible by….”
I probably would stick with windows 7 and then install super low requirment internet browser like palemoon, basilisk or something similar. Given that this is Nvidia brand gpu using linux is limiting this machine. If you use proper drivers and ssd drive this could handle 1080p/30 frames which is enough for movies playback altough given that youtube removed support for 30 frames and is currently forcing 60 frames its probably cant play youtube well.
Good job on restoring it!
The history of this, fucking hell its amazing.
If you don’t want to pay to much for a new battery you could take apart the battery and put new cells in the battery
Zorin OS is what I recommend. It has Lite for older hardware. Maybe try that.