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I still work with my eight year old notebook and its glorious Intel Atom and 1GB of RAM... It was gifted to me during my second year of college and now that I'm

I still work with my eight year old notebook and its glorious Intel Atom and 1GB of RAM... It was gifted to me during my second year of college and now that I'm on my PhD I still have a use for it. The original Windows distribution lasted around one month. Since then it's been running a number of lightweight distributions, currently Lubuntu. It works noticeably better than laptops running Windows with twice the memory. Even compared to more powerful machines I manage to keep it competitive by avoiding bloated crap. Of course the battery doesn't last like it used to, and I had to replace the keyboard a few years ago.

terminalcommand 9y ago
When my thinkpad x201 broke down, I lived with an atom 1.6 Ghz eeePC (1000HE). It was certainly doable and tweaking the laptop to run on limited resources was fun. My only real issue was that I couldn't browse with javascript, because the cpu load was crushing the netbook. Other than that a recent OpenBSD installation used only 128MiB of RAM, with ram usage occasionaly rising to around 280 MiB when I opened firefox. I still use the netbook as my primary mobile machine. But I think getting a second hand thinkpad again would be a reasonable thing to do. Although the netbook is perfectly usable, it is really heavy compared to today's standards. That is the only complaint I have for my machine.