I almost bought one of these during the netbook craze of 2008-2010, but instead I got a used ThinkPad X60. Now I finally got an NB305 to see what I was missing.
Netbooks are damn good portible DVD players, low power consumption, head phone jacks, etc. I owned an ACER one in the army, they work quite well for very basic computer tasks. From the future, Emulation works amazing on these as well, a mini portable console!
Back when Netbooks first came out, my father got a little obsessed with them. Within the few years of Netbooks being popular, he bought no less than 6 of them! The very first Asus EeePC, then the three follow-up models, the very first Medion Netbook, and finally a late Asus EeePC with Dual Core Processor. He gave the Medion to me after experimenting with it in 2008, and I used it for school and university until he gave one of the 10" EeePCs to me. That one served me well until I got tired of working on that small screen, that's when I got a 13" Dell Latitude laptop. I have since been given some of the netbooks to sell them on Ebay, but there are still a few that remain...
+DrCassette Now is the time to be obsessed with tablets, now that they're in overabundance. The one Windows 8.1 tablet i have, i got it for 100€ but now it costs about 60€. You can mount these things on a wall or wherever, much nicer than a netbook if you're not actually going to type on them, and nice IPS screens with wide angles and decent contrast. And they feel like 10 times faster than a netbook too. And you can get like $40 shitty Android tablets. Good times.
If you want to rub sticky residue off of surfaces, don't use acetone - it readily attacks coatings, laquers, and plastics, and isn't even that good at removing the residue. Use any apolar solvent like petrol, white spirit, turpentine, anything like that. Much friendlier on the surface and much more effective at removing the residue. Nice video btw :) .
@@Chyrosran22 I often use methyl hydrate to clean stickers residues and excellent for cyanoacrylates glues, try it if you don't believe me (; But yeah for the more sticky stuff brake cleaner will do, especially good for tobacco sirup...
@@Chyrosran22 methyl hydrate is miscible, there's that. I've been doing it since the 1980's and I haven't destroyed anything, I meant I destroyed a lot of ish but not with methanol or similar solvents.
I have one of these toys (the nb305 n600 with a slightly more powerful atom n550 cpu in it). I bought it 5 years ago and It operated pretty horribly from the start. Several years down the line windows's updates brought it to it's knees, and no reinstallation would help it's crawl. I was about to throw it away before I installed linux (linux mint 17.1 at the time). Now it's again my go-to computer on the road. It's actually a pretty sweet machine considering it had cost me 350$ in 2010, but it's just not built to heft the weight of windows 7 (even in it's crippleware edition).
At least Toshiba ( and some Dell too ) was smart enough to put an access cover on the bottom of their netbook. I like my Acer One, but replacing the hard drive or upgrading the memory involves a complete tear down and removal of the motherboard to do it.
+WaybackTECH My Acer One has an acces latch on the bottom of the machine I have upgraded the memory to 2 GB and a Samsung 120 GB SSD. And also downgraded the OS from windows 7 starter to Windows XP.
My Samsung netbook also has easy access, to RAM though. Replacing hard drive needs to teardown the bottom cover which is tightened by screws. And yes, I'm using a netbook now.
+Evadinnn I have one of these Samsungs, the N130 but numerous of their other models used a similar enclosure. No biggie, tearing the machine down completely is not too unpleasant and doesn't take too long, there aren't many screws, most of the screws are the same, the clips unclip easily without breaking, and there are not too many finicky parts altogether. Tearing down a Lenovo Ultrabook on the other hand... and no access hatch... well, to be honest, also not much to complain about, i've seen worse.
Too bad some netbooks, such as the Dell Mini 9 besides some Asus Eee PC’s, use a hard to come by Mini-PCIe PATA SSD. So such an access cover is pretty much useless.
The io is actually really good all things considered. It would fit well on a modern laptop. Replace vga and charging with USB c and USB 2 with USB 3 and you have solid io. Also, add an hdmi.
I have the first generation iPad that was introduced in 2010. It's the worst purchase I've ever made, as they stopped supporting it in 2011 while literally ALL the newer models are still supported today. Anyway, it only has a small mono speaker, but it's loud enough and has a good amount of bass, definitely better than those tinny netbook speakers.
For that price I'd rather buy a macbook or a gaming PC. Anyway, after more than five years I finally upgraded to an iPad mini 2 which has two stereo speakers, although they're so close together it sounds like mono. Because this iPad is much thinner than the older one I had, the speaker quality is about the same (a little louder but a little less bass, however it sounds just fine for most things).
+TheComputerGuy⁹⁶ iPad 2 was the first worthwhile iPad, the first was a nice concept but was missing some key features like a webcam that made it just an expensive web browser.
Win7 starter is trash, I had an HP mini1020la with a lesser Atom N270 @ 1.60ghz. only 1GB of DDR3 RAM and a 160GB HDD. It ran WinXP pro SP3 and then I set up a dual boot with Win8.1 pro, it worked great for what i used it, even some middle range online gaming like Battlefield 1942 and emulation of PSone, Gameboy Advance and DS. It all depends on what you want to do with the equipment and how you configure it, obviously it will not run triple A games in 2016 but it isnt a paperweight either.....
Good review. When I was shopping for a new laptop in 2012, I *really* wanted one of these Toshiba netbooks; in particular the top of the line model, the NB555. It was similar to this, but had an AMD C60 processor (way more CPU and graphics power than the Atom) and a Harman Kardon sound system that was loud and sounded really good. Sadly, they had just discontinued it at the time, and I couldn't find one anywhere. Then right after I ordered the ThinkPad, one of the retailers, who didn't return an inquiry I had sent them weeks ago, finally emailed me saying they had them. Sucks to be them.
I enjoyed having an extra NB100 on the side of the other computing for some time and still do experiments on my not so bad Toshiba. The Atom processor was something that didn't work too well. As for notes and such it worked for a few people.
After some 6-7 years of first seeing this video, I've put one back in working order. Super nifty little PC, and definitely a looker. Kind of absurd that I'm gawking at a netbook but it just speaks to me.
A few months ago I got one of those netbooks (an Asus EeePC 1005HAB) for free from one of my professors. My idea was to have a small laptop that I could use in places where I didn't want to bring my iPad or my MacBook Pro in case it got stolen or lost. It was running Windows 7 Home Premium or Professional when I first got it (although very slowly to the point of being useless). I wiped the hard drive and installed Lubuntu 14.04 LTS as it's comparable to Windows XP in terms of CPU and RAM usage. I've also spent $20 dollars on a 2GB RAM upgrade. Performance wise, it's decent as long as you aren't on any resource-heavy website or multitasking. When I tried playing videos on RUclips, it played ok but it caused the fans to start spinning noticeably loud and the CPU was running at 100% when I checked. (although it seems to have improved under the latest version of Firefox) Also the RAM upgrade didn't make a huge difference to me in terms of performance improvements. My question is, will it improve performance if I replace the hard drive with a small SSD?
I had both the older Toshiba NB100 and the original 7" EEE PC (Which I scored for £30 because the original owner couldn't get the wifi to work, worked fine!). They were tiny, slow and got surprisingly hot, but followed me everywhere and got the job done. Even used the Toshiba to edit a video rather painfully when I was away from my desktop. Have a Macbook Air now and the extra performance is much appreciated, but couldn't fault the little things one bit!
I remember installing the tweak to enable the glass theme back on my Samsung netbook. That thing had 2GB of RAM and it actually didn't drag the system down much. It was totally worth it because of how bland the "non-glass" them in 7 and Vista is, but like the author of the video, I too ultimately upgraded to a tiny ThinkPad (an X200 tablet) as my "ultraportable" and am happier with it, however, the netbook did have unbeatable battery life and portability on its side; it just wasn't very powerful and didn't have enough screen resolution. The only thing I really disagreed with in this video was the whole "ribbon" thing in Office, as I've come to like it, but that's a preference thing more than anything else.
I still have both of my Netbooks, one from 2011 and the other from 2012. I needed one for college because the one we got through school was a mobile workstation so it was very heavy. Not every day required the beast so I just saved a few bucks for a small Netbook. They still work just fine (I have two because my first one died days after the default warranty ran out...) One dual boots 7/XP and the other boots Tiny7. (Acer Aspire One D257 and 722 are the models I have if anyone was wondering, upgraded the RAM on both, 2Gb and 4Gb respectively)
Me and my friend installed Windows 98 on one of those, because the atom processor was strong as one pentium 3 processor. It was fun until the motherboard failed.
I had a really awesome teeny tiny Lenovo laptop, which looked like my big Lenovo laptop I had in undergrad at UNC, friend still has it - it's about dead, but it was great! I used it on a research grant in France and Romania, perfect size!
Back in 2011 I did some travel out of the country. I had two Asus netbooks that worked great for me with the n450 processor and 2GB of ram. They had 8 hours of battery life, so I could work remotely for the whole day. Nice vid, thanks!
Not only the windows 7 starter edition don't manage more than 2GB, the Atom it self has a memory controller that supports only up to 2GB. Years ago i bought an Asus EEEPC 1015PN with an Atom n570 and an ION2 GPU , it come with widows 7 Home Premium x86 and 2GB of maximum ram too. It runs OK but the Ram lags a lot the machine even when you are browsing the web and listening music together. In my opinion, netbooks are good portable computers in size, but atoms and their very low performance and capabilities make them very annoying for practically everything. If i have to go anywhere with a computer, i prefer my 15" acer i7 than a 10" or 12" Atom.
Excellent review, I have the same 2 pc's and I use the Toshiba for automotive diagnostics, I got the program and obd2 cable to check error codes and readyness tests for emissions state tests. It is perfect for that use. The other ibm laptop is much better, I have loaded Linux on it and runs 100%.
I purchased this exact Netbook new in 2010 because it had the best specs I could find in a Netbook at the time. Mine gave that same warning every time it was bumped the tiniest bit - I think I disabled some background task to stop it. The only massively disappointing thing about mine was that it had ONE speaker, and it was the smallest speaker I'd ever seen in any Netbook (I'd owned two before this.) I soldered in two larger low-profile speakers from... something... and drilled two little holes in the underside of the case for the sound to pass out. At least that mod allowed me to hear the speech in RUclips videos without headphones. I think I still have it in a storage closet.
@Extundo I really need to get a new power brick for my EeePC 1005PE and mess around with it again. I've been putting that off for like eight years now.
I used to have a Toshiba NB550D netbook with the first generation AMD APU (Fusion C50) The caveats you mention were largely restricted to Intel/Via netbooks .IMO, the Fusion based netbooks were the only ones worth considering, for a few reasons: 1) Fusion C50 used Bobcat cores, which are about as fast as K8 (so Core 2 performance) 2) The GPU was an 80 SP Radeon 5xxx series design, so it was (and still is) well supported for things like video acceleration and Linux. My Toshiba could run 1080p Flash RUclips no sweat. 3) Fusion was far more efficient than Atom while performing waaaay faster. As I said, Core 2 performance with a "proper" Radeon 5xxx GPU under 9w TDP. My record for runtime with the NB550D was 13 hours(!) running Windows 7 or Xubuntu. 4) It was a fully enabled, unrestricted chip. It would run 64-bit Windows with over 4GB RAM, it would run AMD-V virtualisation etc. Intel put arbitrary restrictions on Atom (like memory caps, 32-bit only etc.) to prevent cannibalisation of Core 2 sales. The Fusion APUs landed around 2010, just as the popularity of netbooks nose-dived... If you can find an NB550D, I highly recommend it! Compared to this model, it has a higher res display, really nice speakers, exceptional battery life, near full-size keyboard etc. A really great machine!
Modern atoms are still trash, Celeron is bare minimum imho. I use a Celeron for my work laptop, it can do all basic tasks + light gaming like l4d or hl2 at 60fps. The atom could barely handle 5 chrome tabs.
In 2011, I wanted to buy a small notebook, since I had never had before. There were lots of netbooks, around 250-300€ but in the end I bought a slightly better machine for 380. It was an HP Pavilion DM1Z, with one of the first AMD APUs (E-350, dual core 1.6 GHZ, with integrated Radeon 6310), 3GB of RAM, and 320GB HDD It also had a 11.6 inch HD screen (1366x768), and almost full size keyboard. Oh, and it came with Windows 7 Home Premium, which ran flawlessly on that machine. I'm glad I did buy that thing because I've been able to upgrade the RAM to 6GB and exchange the HDD for an SSD, and the machine performs rather fast for the things I still use it for. I wouldn't have been able to do that with a lower end netbook.
I bought an Acer Aspire one (i forget the model) also 10.1" has a max amount of ram topping out at 1.5gb, but only has 1. It has the N270 Atom. Came with Windows XP Home Edition it had a 160gb SATA HDD (But shopgoodwill.com removes hard drives) It came with the original box and all the booklets, i bought it for $26. The original price of it back in 2009 was $298! It was marked down to $248.
The problem with this unit like a lot of 1st 2nd gen Atoms is that they were neutered hard by Intel Microsoft... its a 32 bit single core processor with HT... it has very little video processing capability... a typical unit has 1gb ram + 120gb hdd and this would work reasonably on Windows 7 Starter but very quickly after SP1 and the usual updates they ran very slow. They had a max of 2gb ram which didnt help... even in the best possible config. with 2gb ram and a 120gb ssd they ran terribly. This was not the case with a late Core2duo which ran acceptably on Win7 64 bit on 4gb and an ssd. Maybe move to some kind of light linux???
When the HD crapped out on my BIL's, I installed a better version of Windows 7 that supports Aero Glass and it ran surprisingly well (I think the N450 has WDDM drivers). That thing was always SLOW though. I wonder how it would perform with Windows 8/10? Both were somewhat optimized for low memory configurations and installs on other N450 netbooks show that it runs really well. Might be worth trying the "free" upgrade and seeing if it gets a performance boost.
The thing I find interesting about this is that I also have an NB305 netbook, and mine has a double-sided memory module. It's also 2GB, and it works just fine. Maybe there's a difference between specific models like yours that limits compatible memory types.
Nice video. I could see myself getting one of these if I happened to find one for $25, but it'd be hard to justify paying more than that. I do a lot with audio, so it's nice to know that this particular model has a good sound chip. Do you think Audacity would run well on one of these for importing audio at high resolution, or would the computer itself not be powerful enough? Love him or hate him, Steve's conclusion at the end was pretty accurate!
+Kocayine Well, for me the point would be that I spend a lot of time importing analog audio, and it would be nice to have a low-cost solution for that task so that I could still be using my "real" computer for other tasks while I'm importing audio. Hence my question to vwestlife regarding whether or not one of these netbooks would be able to run something like Audacity.
+maineboy1979 Unfortunately I don't think any netbooks have a line-level audio input; they only have a microphone input... which makes the 24-bit, 192 kHz recording capability rather useless!
+vwestlife Oh, I see. Well that's a bummer, but not surprising I guess. I suppose I've become spoiled by my Mac laptop whose audio input port is able to function as a mic input and a line input.
I've been fixing one of these for a friend since it was new; nearly ten years now. These run Android x86 very well; streaming 480p video smoothly while editing a presentation in SideView. The webcams' sensors on these are better than many current $600 HP laptops. Also I'm sure this is common knowledge but XFCE among other environments won't shrink windows small enough to completely fit contents on the screen.. which is why Android x86 is a nice alternative.
I bought into the netbook craze when I bought an Asus eee pc 1005ha way back in 2009. It performed well for a cheap laptop and I never had a problem with it, though the 1024X800 screen left me wanting for a little more. It did serve the purpose of being my cheap knock-about laptop which I traveled with for a few years. The battery eventually became worn out to a point to where it would not hold any significant charge and I decided to splurge on a new computer at that point rather than replacing the battery. It then sat in the corner of my closet, derelict and forsaken, for about 2 years until I brought it back to life as a streaming device where it sits permanently attached to my TV. It streams RUclips and Netflix to my TV remarkably well under Lubuntu.
About the bad speakers, toshiba actually made them worse via software on the lower end models that didn't come with harman/kardon speakers due to the contract that they had with harman kardon. The NB550D models and higher actually have subwoofers in addition to the up firing speakers.
I still use my netbook, bought a slightly scuffed but otherwise decent condition Compaq Mini 110 just over a year ago for dirt cheap, did some cleanup and tweaking of Win XP and installed Xubuntu alongside to experiment with Linux on a cheap machine. Even though I have both a small tablet and a capable notebook, I still occasionally use the netbook for certain tasks.
These days netbooks are also great at being a basic file or print server. Just set that up within your OS of choice and stick them somewhere where it's out of the way. They're small, quiet, energy efficient and they don't put out a ton of heat so you can safely run them in a closet or something like that. I was actually thinking of setting up an Acer Aspire One I got for free with an Atom N270 as my file and print server, all I would really need is a USB hub and some external hard drives (and my printer, of course).
When it comes to productivity (e.g. as a student who has to write an article while on a train) netbooks arent that bad at all. A tablet may be a cool gadget, but you don't want to use its on screen keyboard for a longer period of time. Later netbooks with quad core Atoms (with decent onboard GPUs) and 1366 x 768 11" screens are really fast enough for multimedia purposes like youtube. My Asus Eee has 32GB built in mlc storage (not a replaceable ssd unfortunaltey), doesnt even need a fan, is as slim as you can probably build a laptop and the keyboard as well as the screen are really decent. Its not as cool as an Ipad, but you can actually use it for work.
I have a netbook. it was given to me. I use it to run a IRC bot. I installed Linux Mint 18 on it and it works fine. It's an ACER Aspire One with 1 GB RAM and a 100 GB (or so) internal HDD.
I have an Acer Aspire One netbook. Because its power consumption is very low - a few watts - it can be on all the time. It's been running continuously for a few years now. It is used as a 'server' for some software I have.
Oh yeah, I remember Office 2003. I grew up with Windows Vista Home Premium, on an HP G60-125NR laptop......I can definitely say that on capable hardware, Vista is just like 7 performance-wise.
That cricket chirping in the background was driving me crazy :) You must be near an open window. I still use a netbook similar to the one you have. It makes a great streaming music server in my house over wifi. I have a half terabyte external HD plugged into it. It's been working for the past several years and still going strong. Great Video. PS - I also think I heard Pat Metheny playing in the background. Is that "OFF RAMP" sure sounds like it...
Gateway made several netbooks powerful enough to run Windows Vista. In fact, they made 64 bit single core processor netbooks. I still use one to this day running Lubuntu 17.04 64 bit with the original hdd.
I have an HP mini 5103 (I think?) It has a dual core Atom CPU, it came with Windows 7 premium from factory. It had only 1gb of ram so like you, I use the classic theme even after upgrading to two gigs. It's ddr3 as well. Very, very nice case, keyboard. It's a business grade computer and was very pricy considering, but it's screen is the best part. Even for such a tiny notebook, it's screen is very nice. It's one of the few netbooks I couldn't find much fault in. It's build was better then our Dell minis. While the hardware specs might sound bad, these things were actually very usable. I use mine for programming believe it or not. I run a full Linux distro within the partition.. It may also help that I have a rather decent SSD installed too, that always helps. Not bad and a not a bad video!
Actually, the Netbooks helped reduces global poverty & increase global literacy. In some places/nations, they were given free to (eligible) schoolers & teachers using govt.'s & NGO's aid. I think they still do! (shame if not). It gave them access to internet (probably thru community WiFi), and it might even include Win7 Pro & full Office, a highly prized tool to students.
The shock sensor's sensitivity should be adjustable in the hdd protection settings i think you could also change what will it do with its readings ...well at least my sister's fujitsu does.
I had a few netbooks back in the era and a top of the line HP netbook with beats audio. The sound out of it was amazing and was better than some 15 inch Toshiba laptops which I happened to own. Problem with the netbooks was the screen resolution and just general cpu/graphic power.
This takes me back im 15 now the first computer i had was a toshiba laptop from about 2007 it was probably terrible as it ran vista but god could it take a hit
+vwestlife if the sound card is really 192k capable, you could use it to encode audio with RDS data for FM transmission! The new version of Sonos (which is now free) has a software encoder.
I recently bought a 2 in 1 to use as just a netbook. Has a dual core celeron and 4gb ram. Rolls along pretty good it can play youtube 720P in full screen. It can play 1080P movies from my server just fine no lag at all
the blue light in the center looks like the wireless light on old HP Pavillons. I think the Pavillion in your video "Does Windows Slow Down Over Time?" has the wireless light.
The original Asus Eee 701 with Linux and an SSD was a great little device. When netbooks got bigger they kind of lost their point, even before tablets came along.
Me, I have a Dell m4300 made from 2007 that has a C2D and a 1680 x 1050 resolution screen. Originally had Vista, but I loaded Windows 10 on it and it runs just fine with all the features and plays hd youtube fine. That netbook is newer than my laptop, so I think it may can run Win10.
I have a old Dell Latitude D420, its got an 12 1 inch display resolution 1280×800, Intel Core Duo U2500 1.2GHz 1.5GB RAM ddr2 60gb hard drive. It run windowd 7 with aero fine. But start up Google Chrome so slow...... Instead i put ubuntu on it and its run very very fast. I am happy about running ubuntu on my old Dell Latitude D420 .
I have a Lenovo S10 that I ordered when they first came out. It came with XP. I later updated it with 7 Starter. I use a program called Oceanis Change Background which allows you to shuffle background images.
Don't wanna bash you but sticker adhesives are removed by label removal products containing citrus oils that are harmless to plastics, and rest is removed by white spirit that in theory can damage only some plastics, whereas acetone damages most of the plastic products :)
I have a slight obsession with notebooks and small form factor underpowered laptops. I have a dell mini 9 ( inspiron 910) with an intel atom, and a Lenovo thinkpad x100e 11.5" i believe, though it's a bit bigger, i see most regard it as a netbook still. With a 1.6 Ghz AMD Athlon Neo single core cpu from 2010, i have it running xubuntu with all of my pic and arduino microcontroller programming stuff.
Seeing this video makes me so glad I never got a Netbook back when they were new, I've never even owned a notebook computer of any kind actually, the last notebook computer I had regular daily use was a Pentium 150 back in 1998 believe it or not. I've always used desktop computers for daily use. NetBooks are good for their size, but their technical specfications are just far too limiting for most people unless you're doing basic office work. My best mate had an HP netbook that he got in 2009 which he used daily for about 3 years, I don't know how he stood it. They're just not nice computers to use for most things.
Idk..I've used both mechanical and that style keyboard..and absolutely nothing wrong with those keyboards. The mechanical keyboards are nicer in ways but are big and chuncky
I bought a Dell netbook as a general use computer in 2009.. it was slow but did what I needed it to.. eventually it was just Being used as a stream box and was stolen during a break in in 2013.. was pissed about all the unbacked media I had on it...
I definitely agree, the ThinkPad is a much better computer. Personally I went for a 13in MacBook, the white one, also with a Core2Duo, mine has 8GB of RAM though (supposedly they are only supposed to take 6, but its will use 8 with OS 10.8 or newer I think) I know it does fine with El Capitan, but it's feeling a little slow these days sadly.
Netbooks are damn good portible DVD players, low power consumption, head phone jacks, etc.
I owned an ACER one in the army, they work quite well for very basic computer tasks.
From the future, Emulation works amazing on these as well, a mini portable console!
+ProtoMario Except they don't have a DVD drive. >.> but media players, yeah. Then again, a $60 tablet probably does better.
+Siana Gearz ??? Many netbooks have optical drive.
Netbooks (not notebooks) usually dont have an optical drive.
My Dell 10" definitely didn't have one
@@SianaGearz Oh, so you're saying $60 tablet probably has DVD drive.
how many indicator leds you need ?
Toshiba : *Yes*
100% agree that Office 2003 was the best and still use it to this day.
In Office 2003 Clippit was disabled by default, though I was the only person to always enable it
It was the best, but you know, it doesn't support docx files whitch is unfortunate
@@vinyl.croatia if you install the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack then it will work
@@oliversakic5907 maybe but there may be some issues with fonts or even sometimes won't open the document
Back when Netbooks first came out, my father got a little obsessed with them. Within the few years of Netbooks being popular, he bought no less than 6 of them! The very first Asus EeePC, then the three follow-up models, the very first Medion Netbook, and finally a late Asus EeePC with Dual Core Processor. He gave the Medion to me after experimenting with it in 2008, and I used it for school and university until he gave one of the 10" EeePCs to me. That one served me well until I got tired of working on that small screen, that's when I got a 13" Dell Latitude laptop. I have since been given some of the netbooks to sell them on Ebay, but there are still a few that remain...
+DrCassette Obsessed with netbooks sounds familiar too me.
+DrCassette I still think they have a use, even today. I use one as a streaming music server in my house. Works great.
I didn't say netbooks are bad, they do still have their uses...
+DrCassette Now is the time to be obsessed with tablets, now that they're in overabundance. The one Windows 8.1 tablet i have, i got it for 100€ but now it costs about 60€. You can mount these things on a wall or wherever, much nicer than a netbook if you're not actually going to type on them, and nice IPS screens with wide angles and decent contrast. And they feel like 10 times faster than a netbook too. And you can get like $40 shitty Android tablets. Good times.
I still own a 2009 Asus eeepc, I have no use for it so I am selling it but it was my first laptop and it was a great little machine.
If you want to rub sticky residue off of surfaces, don't use acetone - it readily attacks coatings, laquers, and plastics, and isn't even that good at removing the residue. Use any apolar solvent like petrol, white spirit, turpentine, anything like that. Much friendlier on the surface and much more effective at removing the residue.
Nice video btw :) .
I'd recommend to use water based solvents, but yeah I clean my old PCB's with automotive brake cleaner.
@@LaurentiusTriarius most glue doesn't dissolve in water so that'd be a poor choice, plus water + electronics is a bad idea
@@Chyrosran22 I often use methyl hydrate to clean stickers residues and excellent for cyanoacrylates glues, try it if you don't believe me (;
But yeah for the more sticky stuff brake cleaner will do, especially good for tobacco sirup...
@@LaurentiusTriarius methyl hydrate is not water and in fact has nothing to do with it :p . Also tobacco syrup is not glue.
@@Chyrosran22 methyl hydrate is miscible, there's that.
I've been doing it since the 1980's and I haven't destroyed anything, I meant I destroyed a lot of ish but not with methanol or similar solvents.
I have one of these toys (the nb305 n600 with a slightly more powerful atom n550 cpu in it). I bought it 5 years ago and It operated pretty horribly from the start. Several years down the line windows's updates brought it to it's knees, and no reinstallation would help it's crawl. I was about to throw it away before I installed linux (linux mint 17.1 at the time). Now it's again my go-to computer on the road. It's actually a pretty sweet machine considering it had cost me 350$ in 2010, but it's just not built to heft the weight of windows 7 (even in it's crippleware edition).
At least Toshiba ( and some Dell too ) was smart enough to put an access cover on the bottom of their netbook. I like my Acer One, but replacing the hard drive or upgrading the memory involves a complete tear down and removal of the motherboard to do it.
+WaybackTECH
My Acer One has an acces latch on the bottom of the machine
I have upgraded the memory to 2 GB and a Samsung 120 GB SSD.
And also downgraded the OS from windows 7 starter to Windows XP.
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well you are lucky then because mine and others I have worked on at the store were not build with an access panel on the bottom.
My Samsung netbook also has easy access, to RAM though. Replacing hard drive needs to teardown the bottom cover which is tightened by screws. And yes, I'm using a netbook now.
+Evadinnn I have one of these Samsungs, the N130 but numerous of their other models used a similar enclosure. No biggie, tearing the machine down completely is not too unpleasant and doesn't take too long, there aren't many screws, most of the screws are the same, the clips unclip easily without breaking, and there are not too many finicky parts altogether. Tearing down a Lenovo Ultrabook on the other hand... and no access hatch... well, to be honest, also not much to complain about, i've seen worse.
Too bad some netbooks, such as the Dell Mini 9 besides some Asus Eee PC’s, use a hard to come by Mini-PCIe PATA SSD. So such an access cover is pretty much useless.
The io is actually really good all things considered. It would fit well on a modern laptop. Replace vga and charging with USB c and USB 2 with USB 3 and you have solid io. Also, add an hdmi.
Great video- you can tell the temperature outside from the crickets chirping..!
A rule of thumb: if it's got an Atom, it belongs in the trash.
In the process of refurbishing one currently, great way to spend time in quarentine.
I have the first generation iPad that was introduced in 2010. It's the worst purchase I've ever made, as they stopped supporting it in 2011 while literally ALL the newer models are still supported today. Anyway, it only has a small mono speaker, but it's loud enough and has a good amount of bass, definitely better than those tinny netbook speakers.
Yup, using my iPad 2 on iOS 8 to write this :P
For that price I'd rather buy a macbook or a gaming PC. Anyway, after more than five years I finally upgraded to an iPad mini 2 which has two stereo speakers, although they're so close together it sounds like mono. Because this iPad is much thinner than the older one I had, the speaker quality is about the same (a little louder but a little less bass, however it sounds just fine for most things).
+TheComputerGuy⁹⁶ iPad 2 was the first worthwhile iPad, the first was a nice concept but was missing some key features like a webcam that made it just an expensive web browser.
Harry Eaton the ipad 2 was the first one with a camera
Win7 starter is trash, I had an HP mini1020la with a lesser Atom N270 @ 1.60ghz. only 1GB of DDR3 RAM and a 160GB HDD.
It ran WinXP pro SP3 and then I set up a dual boot with Win8.1 pro, it worked great for what i used it, even some middle range online gaming like Battlefield 1942 and emulation of PSone, Gameboy Advance and DS.
It all depends on what you want to do with the equipment and how you configure it, obviously it will not run triple A games in 2016 but it isnt a paperweight either.....
I had a laptop with Intel Celery Stick processor - it was terrible.
You're right, that's why I stuck with an AMD Parsley Twig back then.
Celery stick? Lol. I'm sure you mean Celeron.
@@FSM_Reviews wooosh
@@FSM_Reviews wooosh
I had one of those exact same models and it was my college laptop!! I still have it!
Merry Christmas! 🎄
Awesome video, I'm watching this from my ASUS EeePC 901! :D
Good review. When I was shopping for a new laptop in 2012, I *really* wanted one of these Toshiba netbooks; in particular the top of the line model, the NB555. It was similar to this, but had an AMD C60 processor (way more CPU and graphics power than the Atom) and a Harman Kardon sound system that was loud and sounded really good. Sadly, they had just discontinued it at the time, and I couldn't find one anywhere. Then right after I ordered the ThinkPad, one of the retailers, who didn't return an inquiry I had sent them weeks ago, finally emailed me saying they had them. Sucks to be them.
I enjoyed having an extra NB100 on the side of the other computing for some time and still do experiments on my not so bad Toshiba. The Atom processor was something that didn't work too well. As for notes and such it worked for a few people.
After some 6-7 years of first seeing this video, I've put one back in working order. Super nifty little PC, and definitely a looker. Kind of absurd that I'm gawking at a netbook but it just speaks to me.
A few months ago I got one of those netbooks (an Asus EeePC 1005HAB) for free from one of my professors. My idea was to have a small laptop that I could use in places where I didn't want to bring my iPad or my MacBook Pro in case it got stolen or lost.
It was running Windows 7 Home Premium or Professional when I first got it (although very slowly to the point of being useless). I wiped the hard drive and installed Lubuntu 14.04 LTS as it's comparable to Windows XP in terms of CPU and RAM usage. I've also spent $20 dollars on a 2GB RAM upgrade.
Performance wise, it's decent as long as you aren't on any resource-heavy website or multitasking. When I tried playing videos on RUclips, it played ok but it caused the fans to start spinning noticeably loud and the CPU was running at 100% when I checked. (although it seems to have improved under the latest version of Firefox) Also the RAM upgrade didn't make a huge difference to me in terms of performance improvements.
My question is, will it improve performance if I replace the hard drive with a small SSD?
I had both the older Toshiba NB100 and the original 7" EEE PC (Which I scored for £30 because the original owner couldn't get the wifi to work, worked fine!).
They were tiny, slow and got surprisingly hot, but followed me everywhere and got the job done. Even used the Toshiba to edit a video rather painfully when I was away from my desktop.
Have a Macbook Air now and the extra performance is much appreciated, but couldn't fault the little things one bit!
I remember installing the tweak to enable the glass theme back on my Samsung netbook. That thing had 2GB of RAM and it actually didn't drag the system down much. It was totally worth it because of how bland the "non-glass" them in 7 and Vista is, but like the author of the video, I too ultimately upgraded to a tiny ThinkPad (an X200 tablet) as my "ultraportable" and am happier with it, however, the netbook did have unbeatable battery life and portability on its side; it just wasn't very powerful and didn't have enough screen resolution. The only thing I really disagreed with in this video was the whole "ribbon" thing in Office, as I've come to like it, but that's a preference thing more than anything else.
I still have both of my Netbooks, one from 2011 and the other from 2012. I needed one for college because the one we got through school was a mobile workstation so it was very heavy. Not every day required the beast so I just saved a few bucks for a small Netbook. They still work just fine (I have two because my first one died days after the default warranty ran out...) One dual boots 7/XP and the other boots Tiny7. (Acer Aspire One D257 and 722 are the models I have if anyone was wondering, upgraded the RAM on both, 2Gb and 4Gb respectively)
Me and my friend installed Windows 98 on one of those, because the atom processor was strong as one pentium 3 processor. It was fun until the motherboard failed.
I had a really awesome teeny tiny Lenovo laptop, which looked like my big Lenovo laptop I had in undergrad at UNC, friend still has it - it's about dead, but it was great! I used it on a research grant in France and Romania, perfect size!
Back in 2011 I did some travel out of the country. I had two Asus netbooks that worked great for me with the n450 processor and 2GB of ram. They had 8 hours of battery life, so I could work remotely for the whole day. Nice vid, thanks!
It's a neat fact that netbooks helped some people through hard times, providing them with a computer. I never knew that.
They are still very useful as terminals for servers
That Guy yes carrying around a net book with putty installed is much easier than carrying around a full sized laptop
Not only the windows 7 starter edition don't manage more than 2GB, the Atom it self has a memory controller that supports only up to 2GB. Years ago i bought an Asus EEEPC 1015PN with an Atom n570 and an ION2 GPU , it come with widows 7 Home Premium x86 and 2GB of maximum ram too. It runs OK but the Ram lags a lot the machine even when you are browsing the web and listening music together.
In my opinion, netbooks are good portable computers in size, but atoms and their very low performance and capabilities make them very annoying for practically everything. If i have to go anywhere with a computer, i prefer my 15" acer i7 than a 10" or 12" Atom.
That netbook can play 720p video but not on youtube, its runs ok in kodi :)
I've got a ThinkPad 240, an X24 and an X31 myself... (was looking for an X41 but those 1.8" drives are a pain to deal with)
Excellent review, I have the same 2 pc's and I use the Toshiba for automotive diagnostics, I got the program and obd2 cable
to check error codes and readyness tests for emissions state tests. It is perfect for that use. The other ibm laptop is
much better, I have loaded Linux on it and runs 100%.
I purchased this exact Netbook new in 2010 because it had the best specs I could find in a Netbook at the time. Mine gave that same warning every time it was bumped the tiniest bit - I think I disabled some background task to stop it. The only massively disappointing thing about mine was that it had ONE speaker, and it was the smallest speaker I'd ever seen in any Netbook (I'd owned two before this.) I soldered in two larger low-profile speakers from... something... and drilled two little holes in the underside of the case for the sound to pass out. At least that mod allowed me to hear the speech in RUclips videos without headphones. I think I still have it in a storage closet.
The Thinkpad was the better choice.
Aero is GPU-powered.
@Extundo I really need to get a new power brick for my EeePC 1005PE and mess around with it again. I've been putting that off for like eight years now.
I used to have a Toshiba NB550D netbook with the first generation AMD APU (Fusion C50)
The caveats you mention were largely restricted to Intel/Via netbooks .IMO, the Fusion based netbooks were the only ones worth considering, for a few reasons:
1) Fusion C50 used Bobcat cores, which are about as fast as K8 (so Core 2 performance)
2) The GPU was an 80 SP Radeon 5xxx series design, so it was (and still is) well supported for things like video acceleration and Linux. My Toshiba could run 1080p Flash RUclips no sweat.
3) Fusion was far more efficient than Atom while performing waaaay faster. As I said, Core 2 performance with a "proper" Radeon 5xxx GPU under 9w TDP. My record for runtime with the NB550D was 13 hours(!) running Windows 7 or Xubuntu.
4) It was a fully enabled, unrestricted chip. It would run 64-bit Windows with over 4GB RAM, it would run AMD-V virtualisation etc. Intel put arbitrary restrictions on Atom (like memory caps, 32-bit only etc.) to prevent cannibalisation of Core 2 sales.
The Fusion APUs landed around 2010, just as the popularity of netbooks nose-dived...
If you can find an NB550D, I highly recommend it! Compared to this model, it has a higher res display, really nice speakers, exceptional battery life, near full-size keyboard etc. A really great machine!
+Aaronage This netbook doesn't seem to exist as far as buying goes. I couldn't find this laptop on ebay at all. I'm going to try and look elseware.
Intel Atom Sucks. I had a netbook with this characteristics, but was a HP Mini.
modern quad core Atoms aren't bad
***** Maybe, but I will not take the risk to buy other again.
Modern atoms are still trash, Celeron is bare minimum imho. I use a Celeron for my work laptop, it can do all basic tasks + light gaming like l4d or hl2 at 60fps. The atom could barely handle 5 chrome tabs.
I never had a problem with my netbook on Win XP - 7 chuggs on it like molasses, but it's perfectly usable on XP and Linux.
Funny thing is, I had one of the Acer aspire netbooks as my first ever laptop quite awhile ago, and I still have it, works fine.
In 2011, I wanted to buy a small notebook, since I had never had before. There were lots of netbooks, around 250-300€ but in the end I bought a slightly better machine for 380.
It was an HP Pavilion DM1Z, with one of the first AMD APUs (E-350, dual core 1.6 GHZ, with integrated Radeon 6310), 3GB of RAM, and 320GB HDD It also had a 11.6 inch HD screen (1366x768), and almost full size keyboard. Oh, and it came with Windows 7 Home Premium, which ran flawlessly on that machine.
I'm glad I did buy that thing because I've been able to upgrade the RAM to 6GB and exchange the HDD for an SSD, and the machine performs rather fast for the things I still use it for. I wouldn't have been able to do that with a lower end netbook.
I bought an Acer Aspire one (i forget the model) also 10.1" has a max amount of ram topping out at 1.5gb, but only has 1. It has the N270 Atom. Came with Windows XP Home Edition it had a 160gb SATA HDD (But shopgoodwill.com removes hard drives) It came with the original box and all the booklets, i bought it for $26. The original price of it back in 2009 was $298! It was marked down to $248.
The problem with this unit like a lot of 1st 2nd gen Atoms is that they were neutered hard by Intel Microsoft... its a 32 bit single core processor with HT... it has very little video processing capability... a typical unit has 1gb ram + 120gb hdd and this would work reasonably on Windows 7 Starter but very quickly after SP1 and the usual updates they ran very slow. They had a max of 2gb ram which didnt help... even in the best possible config. with 2gb ram and a 120gb ssd they ran terribly. This was not the case with a late Core2duo which ran acceptably on Win7 64 bit on 4gb and an ssd. Maybe move to some kind of light linux???
When the HD crapped out on my BIL's, I installed a better version of Windows 7 that supports Aero Glass and it ran surprisingly well (I think the N450 has WDDM drivers). That thing was always SLOW though. I wonder how it would perform with Windows 8/10? Both were somewhat optimized for low memory configurations and installs on other N450 netbooks show that it runs really well. Might be worth trying the "free" upgrade and seeing if it gets a performance boost.
I used to have a Toshiba notebook but I had the newer one which I think was call nb405
Bought one of these for £30 on ebay. Haven't got it yet. Probably gonna make it into a linux based school machine because of the keyboard.
The thing I find interesting about this is that I also have an NB305 netbook, and mine has a double-sided memory module. It's also 2GB, and it works just fine. Maybe there's a difference between specific models like yours that limits compatible memory types.
Nice video. I could see myself getting one of these if I happened to find one for $25, but it'd be hard to justify paying more than that. I do a lot with audio, so it's nice to know that this particular model has a good sound chip. Do you think Audacity would run well on one of these for importing audio at high resolution, or would the computer itself not be powerful enough?
Love him or hate him, Steve's conclusion at the end was pretty accurate!
+Kocayine Well, for me the point would be that I spend a lot of time importing analog audio, and it would be nice to have a low-cost solution for that task so that I could still be using my "real" computer for other tasks while I'm importing audio. Hence my question to vwestlife regarding whether or not one of these netbooks would be able to run something like Audacity.
+maineboy1979 Unfortunately I don't think any netbooks have a line-level audio input; they only have a microphone input... which makes the 24-bit, 192 kHz recording capability rather useless!
+vwestlife Oh, I see. Well that's a bummer, but not surprising I guess. I suppose I've become spoiled by my Mac laptop whose audio input port is able to function as a mic input and a line input.
@@vwestlife microphone input also records audio, is it worse quality?
I have not tried the microphone input. But it is only for microphone-level signals, not line-level signals.
I've been fixing one of these for a friend since it was new; nearly ten years now. These run Android x86 very well; streaming 480p video smoothly while editing a presentation in SideView. The webcams' sensors on these are better than many current $600 HP laptops. Also I'm sure this is common knowledge but XFCE among other environments won't shrink windows small enough to completely fit contents on the screen.. which is why Android x86 is a nice alternative.
I bought into the netbook craze when I bought an Asus eee pc 1005ha way back in 2009. It performed well for a cheap laptop and I never had a problem with it, though the 1024X800 screen left me wanting for a little more. It did serve the purpose of being my cheap knock-about laptop which I traveled with for a few years. The battery eventually became worn out to a point to where it would not hold any significant charge and I decided to splurge on a new computer at that point rather than replacing the battery. It then sat in the corner of my closet, derelict and forsaken, for about 2 years until I brought it back to life as a streaming device where it sits permanently attached to my TV. It streams RUclips and Netflix to my TV remarkably well under Lubuntu.
About the bad speakers, toshiba actually made them worse via software on the lower end models that didn't come with harman/kardon speakers due to the contract that they had with harman kardon. The NB550D models and higher actually have subwoofers in addition to the up firing speakers.
I still use my netbook, bought a slightly scuffed but otherwise decent condition Compaq Mini 110 just over a year ago for dirt cheap, did some cleanup and tweaking of Win XP and installed Xubuntu alongside to experiment with Linux on a cheap machine. Even though I have both a small tablet and a capable notebook, I still occasionally use the netbook for certain tasks.
These days netbooks are also great at being a basic file or print server. Just set that up within your OS of choice and stick them somewhere where it's out of the way. They're small, quiet, energy efficient and they don't put out a ton of heat so you can safely run them in a closet or something like that.
I was actually thinking of setting up an Acer Aspire One I got for free with an Atom N270 as my file and print server, all I would really need is a USB hub and some external hard drives (and my printer, of course).
+Jack Stavris Or a Web server
the sound quality of some netbooks is excellent, my ASUS Eee PC has a full home theater option.
When it comes to productivity (e.g. as a student who has to write an article while on a train) netbooks arent that bad at all. A tablet may be a cool gadget, but you don't want to use its on screen keyboard for a longer period of time. Later netbooks with quad core Atoms (with decent onboard GPUs) and 1366 x 768 11" screens are really fast enough for multimedia purposes like youtube. My Asus Eee has 32GB built in mlc storage (not a replaceable ssd unfortunaltey), doesnt even need a fan, is as slim as you can probably build a laptop and the keyboard as well as the screen are really decent. Its not as cool as an Ipad, but you can actually use it for work.
I have a netbook. it was given to me. I use it to run a IRC bot. I installed Linux Mint 18 on it and it works fine. It's an ACER Aspire One with 1 GB RAM and a 100 GB (or so) internal HDD.
Wire Rubbish Bin I had that same netbook. I used as my main machine from 2013 to 2015. Windows XP and eveything!
Acetone is always bad for cleaning plastics :/ Alcohol is usually way better for the plastic. Learned that the hard way
I have an Acer Aspire One netbook. Because its power consumption is very low - a few watts - it can be on all the time. It's been running continuously for a few years now. It is used as a 'server' for some software I have.
I agree , give me the x60 ( or even better x61s ) any day. the x60 line is my favourite lenovo line of notebook.
does any one else here crickets?
No, it's just your imagination.
VWestlife oh okay ;)
***** why do you think i put this ;)
***** That's your penguin chirping.
VWestlife i osntyly dont care if there are cricits in your man cave
Oh yeah, I remember Office 2003. I grew up with Windows Vista Home Premium, on an HP G60-125NR laptop......I can definitely say that on capable hardware, Vista is just like 7 performance-wise.
That's actually a very nice looking netbook for its time. Wish it had a better processor, but the aesthetic of it isn't half bad.
That cricket chirping in the background was driving me crazy :) You must be near an open window. I still use a netbook similar to the one you have. It makes a great streaming music server in my house over wifi. I have a half terabyte external HD plugged into it. It's been working for the past several years and still going strong. Great Video.
PS - I also think I heard Pat Metheny playing in the background. Is that "OFF RAMP" sure sounds like it...
Gateway made several netbooks powerful enough to run Windows Vista. In fact, they made 64 bit single core processor netbooks. I still use one to this day running Lubuntu 17.04 64 bit with the original hdd.
I have an HP mini 5103 (I think?) It has a dual core Atom CPU, it came with Windows 7 premium from factory. It had only 1gb of ram so like you, I use the classic theme even after upgrading to two gigs. It's ddr3 as well. Very, very nice case, keyboard. It's a business grade computer and was very pricy considering, but it's screen is the best part. Even for such a tiny notebook, it's screen is very nice. It's one of the few netbooks I couldn't find much fault in. It's build was better then our Dell minis. While the hardware specs might sound bad, these things were actually very usable. I use mine for programming believe it or not. I run a full Linux distro within the partition.. It may also help that I have a rather decent SSD installed too, that always helps. Not bad and a not a bad video!
It's a interesting little computer and I like the look of it. However seeing this video reconfirmed why I wouldn't be too happy with one.
I still have my 2012 Acer Aspire one D270 Netbook. After support for 7 ended I factory reset it and it became my ultra portal DosBox battle station
I have one of the Dell Mini 9 Netbooks, Atom N270, 2GB ram and a terrible 16gb mPcie SSD. It currently runs Windows 10 and its semi usable.
Actually, the Netbooks helped reduces global poverty & increase global literacy. In some places/nations, they were given free to (eligible) schoolers & teachers using govt.'s & NGO's aid. I think they still do! (shame if not). It gave them access to internet (probably thru community WiFi), and it might even include Win7 Pro & full Office, a highly prized tool to students.
The shock sensor's sensitivity should be adjustable in the hdd protection settings i think you could also change what will it do with its readings ...well at least my sister's fujitsu does.
I had a few netbooks back in the era and a top of the line HP netbook with beats audio. The sound out of it was amazing and was better than some 15 inch Toshiba laptops which I happened to own. Problem with the netbooks was the screen resolution and just general cpu/graphic power.
i had a toshiba NB200 for primary school in 2009-2010.
This takes me back im 15 now the first computer i had was a toshiba laptop from about 2007 it was probably terrible as it ran vista but god could it take a hit
Bought this used in 2012, installed a lean Linux build on it and I still use it to this day for classes, still keeps 3hrs of charge
+vwestlife if the sound card is really 192k capable, you could use it to encode audio with RDS data for FM transmission! The new version of Sonos (which is now free) has a software encoder.
I still use mine and was able to upgrad it to win 10, good enough for basics.
I recently bought a 2 in 1 to use as just a netbook. Has a dual core celeron and 4gb ram. Rolls along pretty good it can play youtube 720P in full screen. It can play 1080P movies from my server just fine no lag at all
As soon as you showed your X60 I immediately opened my X60s : ^)
the blue light in the center looks like the wireless light on old HP Pavillons. I think the Pavillion in your video "Does Windows Slow Down Over Time?" has the wireless light.
I don't like Apple, but Steve Jobs always made good points.
I have two NB205's kickin about somewhere. Both with the extra large battery.
I'm trying to remember if there was ever a VAIO Netbook at all. Of course, back then, I think VAIO was still made by Sony themselves.
The original Asus Eee 701 with Linux and an SSD was a great little device. When netbooks got bigger they kind of lost their point, even before tablets came along.
Me, I have a Dell m4300 made from 2007 that has a C2D and a 1680 x 1050 resolution screen. Originally had Vista, but I loaded Windows 10 on it and it runs just fine with all the features and plays hd youtube fine. That netbook is newer than my laptop, so I think it may can run Win10.
I hosted my website from a netbook for years & i still have that netbook but the screen is badly burnt and unusable after staying on for 5yrs . 24x7.
I have a old Dell Latitude D420, its got an 12 1 inch display resolution 1280×800, Intel Core Duo U2500 1.2GHz 1.5GB RAM ddr2 60gb hard drive. It run windowd 7 with aero fine. But start up Google Chrome so slow......
Instead i put ubuntu on it and its run very very fast. I am happy about running ubuntu on my old Dell Latitude D420 .
I have a Lenovo S10 that I ordered when they first came out. It came with XP. I later updated it with 7 Starter. I use a program called Oceanis Change Background which allows you to shuffle background images.
Don't wanna bash you but sticker adhesives are removed by label removal products containing citrus oils that are harmless to plastics, and rest is removed by white spirit that in theory can damage only some plastics, whereas acetone damages most of the plastic products :)
Damn my dad bought one of these back in the day
I had the Dell equivalent with win XP.. it worked surprising well for what I used it for.. web and movies mostly..
I have a slight obsession with notebooks and small form factor underpowered laptops. I have a dell mini 9 ( inspiron 910) with an intel atom, and a Lenovo thinkpad x100e 11.5" i believe, though it's a bit bigger, i see most regard it as a netbook still. With a 1.6 Ghz AMD Athlon Neo single core cpu from 2010, i have it running xubuntu with all of my pic and arduino microcontroller programming stuff.
(I tried Windows 7 on an X24, ran OK but 640MB is really limiting :P I have Windows 2000 on mine, and XP on my X31)
You can hide the ribbon in Office to get more space. Just double click the tabs.
Just picked one up from a rummage for $1.00. Had to buy power cord. was not expecting much but holy sh*t it all works great and in mint condition
Seeing this video makes me so glad I never got a Netbook back when they were new, I've never even owned a notebook computer of any kind actually, the last notebook computer I had regular daily use was a Pentium 150 back in 1998 believe it or not. I've always used desktop computers for daily use. NetBooks are good for their size, but their technical specfications are just far too limiting for most people unless you're doing basic office work. My best mate had an HP netbook that he got in 2009 which he used daily for about 3 years, I don't know how he stood it. They're just not nice computers to use for most things.
Idk..I've used both mechanical and that style keyboard..and absolutely nothing wrong with those keyboards. The mechanical keyboards are nicer in ways but are big and chuncky
I bought a Dell netbook as a general use computer in 2009.. it was slow but did what I needed it to.. eventually it was just Being used as a stream box and was stolen during a break in in 2013.. was pissed about all the unbacked media I had on it...
I still have a 2008 acer aspire one netbook. It was a cheap basic laptop from office depot. It runs Windows XP Professional with Office 2010.
You should be able to get a free upgrade to Win10 Home if this has a genuine Win 7 Starter license. Pretty good value for $45.
windows 10 is shit
I definitely agree, the ThinkPad is a much better computer. Personally I went for a 13in MacBook, the white one, also with a Core2Duo, mine has 8GB of RAM though (supposedly they are only supposed to take 6, but its will use 8 with OS 10.8 or newer I think) I know it does fine with El Capitan, but it's feeling a little slow these days sadly.
had 6 of those for the learning assistance class at my high school a few years ago.
6:00 HP were the only ones stupid enough to ship ANY bad computer of theirs with Vista.