I still don't agree with the e-waste thing. As a student back in 2008, I did all my five years of CS degree on a 11" Atom netbook. Maybe it's the nostalgia talk

I still don't agree with the e-waste thing. As a student back in 2008, I did all my five years of CS degree on a 11" Atom netbook. Maybe it's the nostalgia talking but these things were awesome. They were super affordable, much smaller than the laptops of the era, ran Linux without trouble, were hackable... so much that using them as Hackintosh was basically the equivalent of a Macbook Air before the Macbook Air even existed. Besides the netbooks, plenty of sysadmins in my circles started their journey by renting small Atom dedicated servers for a few bucks a month from the likes of OVH.