A few years ago I got a mint condition Dell Mini 9 for €20. 1.6 GHz Atom, fanless, equipped with a 16GB SSD by default. I still think of turning this into my ma

A few years ago I got a mint condition Dell Mini 9 for €20. 1.6 GHz Atom, fanless, equipped with a 16GB SSD by default. I still think of turning this into my main, probably framebuffer-based workstation (I have really moderate needs if I discipline myself). This remains to be done, but I surely find this machine interesting (fanless+SSD=no moving parts=cool!). I have large-ish hands, but, surprisingly, the Mini 9 is even almost tolerable to type on. Joey Hess famously used a Mini 9 for everyday work [1, 2]. I also dug out Jeff Atwood's old CodingHorror post on netbooks [3]. Working really efficiently on a really small (8-9 inch) screen is an interesting dream I keep coming back to. I imagine myself heavily relying on a sketchpad/whiteboard/chalk board for the "thinking" parts. The tiny machine would mostly serve as a typewriter, whilst also keeping me away from mindless browsing (it's much easier to look away from a 9-inch screen than from a 22-inch one). Nice theory for sure. 1: https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/xmonad_layouts_for_netbooks/ https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/xmonad_layouts_for_netbooks/ 2: https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/Dell_Mini_9/ https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/Dell_Mini_9/ 3: https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-web-browser-is-the-new-laptop/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-web-browser-is-the-new-lap...