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I loved my eeePC back in college - either a 700 or 701 running, I think, Xunbuntu. Perfect for taking notes in class, which a tablet, or even the Surface RT I
by douche 11y ago
I loved my eeePC back in college - either a 700 or 701 running, I think, Xunbuntu. Perfect for taking notes in class, which a tablet, or even the Surface RT I have now, would be garbage for. Not bad for light hacking either.
Still, that's a pretty small niche.
- creshal 11y ago> Still, that's a pretty small niche. A niche that existed for years before and was filled by (slightly less useless) subnotebooks like the Macbook Air, or Thinkpad X series.
- douche 11y agoStill, I could buy 3-4 of my old eeePCs for the price of a Mac Air, and neither is really in the same form-factor. When you're working an $8/hour work-study job for your discretionary income, that price differential matters. The eee was also great for fitting on those comically tiny lecture hall chair-desk surfaces that a 10-13 inch laptop would swallow up, with room to spare for a honking big container of bad, strong coffee.
- dhimes 11y agoThey would also fit on an economy-seat airline seat, and I didn't have to worry about the douche (no offense) in front of me breaking it by slamming his seat into recline mode. Was awesome.
- cdelsolar 11y agoso the macbook air is useless?
- Animats 11y agoI still have two of the original eeePC machines, which I use to run antique Teletype machines. The Linux version is crappy. The WiFi connection system gets hung up if anything at all goes wrong, and the "union" file system leaks inodes, which have to be cleaned up with a script every few weeks of use. You can get a tablet for $39, which is useful for little dedicated applications.