I got myself a 1000HE (2 GB RAM, 160 GB HDD) in 2009, installed Ubuntu (was it Jaunty?) on it, and loved it. I got the slightly heavier one, with a 6-cell batte

I got myself a 1000HE (2 GB RAM, 160 GB HDD) in 2009, installed Ubuntu (was it Jaunty?) on it, and loved it. I got the slightly heavier one, with a 6-cell battery with uptime touted as 9.5hrs; in reality it was more like 6-7 hours, but still great for the day. I used it as my main machine up until 2014. Did a lot of Clojure hacking on it. It even got me a job at one point. It was rugged, too! Carried it around with myself everywhere. At one point I dropped it from ~1 metre (my backpack slid off the arm), and some plastic was chipped off the case with the hit, but the little thingy continued to work. It eventually developed a line of green-dead pixels on the screens, but was still usable. In 2019, I wasn’t using it anymore, so I gave it away to someone who needed to complete their M.A. thesis while travelling on a budget. I loved that ten years in, the little thingy was still useful. Looks like I have a separate heart for tiny computers. Now I have a GPD Micro PC, which reminds me of the 1000HE in many ways.