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It's a shame it failed and there are no real cheap netbooks anymore (aside from Chromebooks). I used an Acer Aspire One when travelling through Germany as a st
by nivenkos 5y ago
It's a shame it failed and there are no real cheap netbooks anymore (aside from Chromebooks).
I used an Acer Aspire One when travelling through Germany as a student (to research jobs and conferences) - and it was amazing being able to program and write papers on such a small device.
Reading about the hardware issues reminds me a lot of the ZX Spectrum reviews (especially the keyboard!) - keeping a low price means a lot of compromises unfortunately.
- Tijdreiziger 5y agoThe modern equivalent is a tablet with its corresponding type cover.
- nivenkos 5y agoAFAIK I can't really run Jupyter notebooks, R, LaTeX and Rust on a tablet though. Perhaps the JingPad.
- sudosysgen 5y agoYou can on any Android tablet that allows root. You can run an X server via Termux and get a full graphical Linux environment. That will be necessary for Rust. R, JupyterNotebooks and LaTeX can be done without root.
- candiodari 5y agoYou can on any tablet that supports webassembly: https://jupyterlite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/_static/lab/index.html https://jupyterlite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/_static/lab/ind...
- monocasa 5y agoThe GPD laptops fill that space for me now. My GPD Pocket literally fits in some of my pockets, is a regular x86 machine. Came with Windows 10, but I'm running Mint on it.