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As a student the 701 was great. It fit in my (large) coat pocket, supported up to 2gb of ram, ran Xubuntu fine, was sturdier than my main laptop, had amazing ba
by strken 4y ago
As a student the 701 was great. It fit in my (large) coat pocket, supported up to 2gb of ram, ran Xubuntu fine, was sturdier than my main laptop, had amazing battery life, and a real keyboard. It fit in that annoying niche between my tiny consumption-oriented phone and big work-oriented laptop, when I needed a full Linux environment for something but didn't mind if the command took a little while longer to type or run.
Later netbooks were all missing something. They were either expensive, had exclusively soldered parts, were thinner and less sturdy (but not smaller), had driver problems on Linux, or had terrible battery life.
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- hashtag-til 4y agowow. So many memories. I had one that I used as spare laptop, and compared to laptops at that time, the battery life was amazing. The weight made it very discreet (important for me living in a crap place in which somebody could kill you to take your laptop) and portable. Used to run Ubuntu on it - a little struggle to get wifi working, but apart from that it was great.
- pnutjam 4y agoYeah, soldered parts; but most manufacturers sell a windows pc with emmc storage that is pretty cheap. I have an older HP version with 2GB of Ram and 16GB eeMC storage. It fits in the tablet pocket of my backpack, is super light, long battery life, and runs opensuse like a champ, even with KDE. EDIT: emmc, not eemc.
- strken 4y agoThe only problem I have with soldered parts is soldered RAM. Everything else can be worked around with patience or external parts, but once you don't have enough RAM to run a web browser with a single tab open to a common website, you're constantly page faulting. I'm not sure whether this is planned obsolescence, or just the consequence of consumers who don't know or care about upgrading their device to keep it current.