Well, I finally own an Eee Pc 1000 again after almost 15 years! Also a big thanks to Sharge for sponsoring today's video. Check out the Shargeek 170 here: bit.ly/4fdjADV
Yeah, those laptops typically have only 1GB of ram and an atom processor. And the atom processor is a single core, and all those processors are meant for is to be efficient and cheap. I did have an Acer netbook same specs as above, and I used it for school for a little bit and then after that, it wouldn’t do anything except run Chrome we took it to a friend to get fixed and apparently it only had a 6 GB hard drive when it advertised a 160 GB hard drive on it so the hard drive didn’t have enough storage and that’s why I was running slow we never got it back. and we lost touch with those friends because they told us they were going to buy something off of us and that they were fixing and just never got back to us But that notebook did get 8 hours of battery life and had an excellent excellent keyboard, my favourite keyboard of all time. too bad the rest of the netbook was garbage pretty much it look nice though mine was purple in color. It was gifted to me.
So, like, i was goin to the maccas rite? And then when i was playn in the ball pit they told me that, like, i couldn't be there and that i was scarin the kids, so i ignored them and kept playng. I'm in jail
Around 2010, my father got a lower 904HD version that has a smaller screen, came with Windows XP. He used it extensively to write his thesis, researching and having video calls with me until his passing in 2013. A decade later, I resurrected his ancient netbook by installing 32 bit Debian to use it as a personal VPN server to be able to work abroad. Thanks dad!
Hold Alt to grab and drag windows without using the titlebar, for when small resolutions place buttons off the edge. Some DE's use Super(Windows) key instead of Alt. Disable window compositing effects... Disable show window contents while dragging. Try a lighter weight Desktop Environment than Cinnamon... Xfce would be a good fit. Install a Window Manager instead of a DE... IceWM or Fluxbox for example. Try a lightweight distro like Kali, AntiX, or DSL. All of which are still Debian based, with APT and .deb support. Testing Yootoob in a browser is not a test of video playback... It's a test of VP9 decoding on a GPU with no hardware decoder. In a browser that may not have hardware decoding enabled. Install h264-ify browser extension, and run it again.
Very good advice with the Alt key. Man I hate the 1024x600 screen I also have on one Raspberry, missing many OK/Cancel keys. Need to put the taskbar to the side, maybe change DPI values even or use scaling. MX Xfce is one of my favs and I think it even is faster than antiX or feels easier to use with WLAN setup at least. Raspberry Pi OS x86 PIXEL (LXDE) another one, even faster, clean menu layout, shows even 5 GHz WLAN symbol in taskbar. I need to get that 5 GHz info in my other Linux desktops as well, very helpful. Those two distros are some of the fastest and at the same time most easiest to use Linux distros for desktops. I tested 100+ live iso with Ventoy and classic boot methods, esp. on GMA 950 laptops and would stick with LXDE or Xfce to make it user friendly. ToriOS was super fast, as well as Crunchbang++ and Bunsenlabs. Haven't checked out the new DSL Debian yet, but man the old one was a tiny fast distro with many tools. I think SliTaz is like the old DSL, but with less tools. How many 50-100 MB distros still exist? Maybe 3? SliTaz and Porteus i586 (kinda Slax 7 successor) are quite small, even faster and interesting, but not having 35,000+ packages like Debian. Batocera or RecalBox for retro gaming (disable any effects, shaders, filters, bezels and maybe even rewind) + Kodi (fast with confluence skin). The Asus EeePC feels similar to a Raspberry Pi 2 v1.1 ARMHF 32 bit, about the same speed, maybe a bit slower. SMTube + mpv is much faster than youtube in web browsers. TH-cam API in kodi is similar, but harder to search, wrongly sorted list from site 2+. Tonvid in a web browser is faster than youtube website, but slower than SMTube and Kodi. TH-cam with tabbed view (t key) is faster than standard youtube settings, if you have no alternative at hand. Or use small window.
Sir, This is the EXACT machine I have. This is Eee PC 1000H it was my Father’s Advanced Christmas and birthday gift to me. I have this netbook since October 2008. And since I know about PCs i took care of this and still works until now. it is nearly 16 years now and still works. since it is an old machine, i put in an SSD and installed antix Linux. i also tried to install classic windows XP which it originally came before. and it is nostalgic… I have a lot of machines now, but I will definitely keep this machine for as long as i can. I love this episode… Thank you.❤❤❤❤❤❤
it was honestly an awesome machine considering how cheap it was, especially if you upgraded the ram and used either windows XP or a lightweight install of linux. I got mine in 2008 because I needed a lightweight laptop for coding and documents during business trips and long commutes that wouldn't be so expensive that I would worry about breaking it or having it stolen and a netbook worked perfectly in this role. I never found the speed to be an issue and the keyboard was comfortable for long sessions on planes and trains. It even did well running emulators and DOS era games. It was honestly a lot more versatile and powerful than the apple or android tablets of that period and even though I reluctantly upgraded to an ultrabook but I still found uses for it at home after that. I was only in 2017 when I got a Asus C101PA (basically the chrome OS version of an Asus netbook) that I found another machine with a physical keyboard that had that combined level of portability, functionality and low price. Modern 2-in-one tablets come close but the netbook form factor is just hugely underrated for on-the-go work and I would have killed to have something like that back when I was a student.
@@LotoTheHero yes netbooks are in a class of its own. they’re low powered, underrated but a lot of times they are fun to use. simple, gets the tasks done, serves its purpose.
many netbooks were actually a lot more capable than people seem to give them credit for. The main issue is they weren't generally suited for windows 7 and later operating systems and did much better with windows XP or linux, especially with 2GB of ram. Compared to a 2008-2010 era tablet the 2008 1000H eee pc had far better functionality and performance when it came to document creation and light coding. Sure net browsing wasn't quite as smooth as say an 1st or 2nd gen ipad but I was able to get so much more work done while commuting or travelling than my colleagues who were stuck with tablets and it was still quite capable of running DOS era games and emulators up to the PSX. The EEE PC line was also quite robust for such cheap laptops; I got a solid 5+ years of work out of mine with multiple international trips and even in 2024 it still runs fine.
It's rough with the latest version on Debian, but still makes it through. The funny this is. All the software is capable of modern video codecs, DRM, etc.... But, the hardware will never keep up. 2003 laptop/netbook running a 2024 OS. Lol
A massive +rep for choosing LMDE 6! (and by the way by holding ALT and holding left click anywhere on the window, you can move it freely, even exceeding the screen borders)
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I unironically loved these. They were slow, of course, but the Internet of the time wasn't very demanding, and you could do all sorts of light-duty stuff on them - watching youtube at then-OK 480p, forums, writing, 2D drawing, easy sound/music composition, etc. They were also great to assist other PC users - you could do lots of maintenance to other systems with them. I never had the sort of patience you needed to game on them - that godawful Intel adapter sucked even at retro-games from the late nineties - but as work laptops you could toss in a backpack and that you wouldn't cry over if they got broken or lost, they were great.
yep there was so much you could do with them as long as you kept your expectations realistic and didn't put too demanding of an OS on it. I often spent 2-3 hours a day on trains and had to make international trips 1-2 times a year and having a device in my backpack that I could edit documents or code with without having to worry about paying hundreds or thousands in repair costs if it broke was a pretty big plus back then. For gaming I mostly just played older DOS games or snes/psx1 games via an emulator.
I had this same EeePC and an EeeBox from the same timeframe. I had them for my business and used them both for cheap workstations. We would plug a barcode scanner into the EeePC and roll it around on a stool to scan things into our inventory software ... cheaper than buying some proprietary handheld scanner back then!
My mom used to use one for work and I remember playing "Office" which was actually just opening word and spamming random keys while the laptop was on a cardboard box. That abruptly ended one day when I ripped off a bunch of keys. I still have it and even though the hard drive sounds like a construction site it still somehow spins to life and starts up Windows 7 Starter.
I now feel bad. Just a week ago, I threw a perfectly good, working Acer One laptop into e-waste. I suspect the Acer and the Asus were twins because so much of what you showed was the same. Like the seller, I upgraded RAM to 2Gb, and installed an SSD, and was running Linux Mint 32-bit. Sigh. Thanks for showing us this piece of history.
Hello from TX, I had an ASUS 11 inch model with an AMD CPU. It was decent and ran a few games well. I used it back when I travelled a bit to stream stuff and play occasional games. We used it for streaming at home to our TV for a while until I sold it to a mom for her student son for like $85 back in 2012.
Nearly bought one of these when they came out to supplement my massive and heavy Compaq laptop. Would have done the job for all the travelling I ended up doing after my parents moved interstate.
I've still got mine! I gave it a tidy up and clean install of XP and set it up as a retro games rig that can be shoved in a desk drawer when I'm done with it. It runs most things from the pre-Quake 3 era better than the systems I actually had at the time, ha. With Daemon Tools to handle the CD images it's a pretty neat little setup.
Few in our school bought Eee PCs when they were introduced. Best thing about them? Being able to show others how small the laptop is, being size of a textbook.
I put AntiX 23.2 with IceWM, very nice and smooth . And no Wi-Fi problem at all out of fresh install. Don't know why it didn't work with LM in the video.
I had a Asus EEE 701SD, which came with 512MB RAM and a massive 8GB SSD (well, probably more like a EMMC). It came with it's own flavour of Linux, but ran Windows XP pretty well. I bought it new in 2009, and used it for many years for many purposes upgrading the RAM to 1GB at some point - most recently linking it up to a monitor to run old XP games that refused to run on Windows 10, by plugging in a USB DVD drive. Ironically, I decided to sell it last year - 14 years later. It was still working great, took photos and put it on eBay. It sold. Great. Thought I'd better do a final test to make sure the battery was charged etc the morning before I sent it off, and it was dead. Completely. I had to apologise profusely and refund and then sell it again for parts. The person that bought it said that battery was fine as was the SSD, as they had another they swapped parts between, so something had just completely died on the motherboard. Goodbye EEE!
In February 2020 bought a HP Mini 1104 from 2012 from a seller on eBay. It has a 320 GB HDD and 2 Gigs of RAM. Runs 32 bit version of Windows 10 Pro kind of slowly and almost all of RAM is in use all of the time. But it’s still useable.
@@jacobt1027 Yes. There is a 32 bit version of Windows 10. The HP Mini 1104 I bought has Windows 7 sticker on the inside below the keyboard. When I remove the battery there is a Windows 7 Pro product key. The owners before me had installed Windows 10 Pro 32 bit before they had listed it on eBay. It wasn’t activated when I first booted it up. I ended up buying a Windows 10 Pro product key from a seller on eBay and it activated without issue. I didn’t think about trying to use Windows 7 Pro product key at the time.
@@jacobt1027Yes there is a 32bit of Windows 10. Windows 11 is 64 bit. Personally I recommend Tiny10 or Ghost Spectre Windows 10 Lite or something similar. It makes the laptop a lot responsive
I loved mine, upgraded it to 2 GB memory and a 500 GB hard drive. Perfect companion on my photo trips back in the days. 1 GB and 160 GB were required by Microsoft to get the Netbook name.
My family used that exact same model to play movies, and now I own the netbook, pretty cool device, stays cool all the time but sadly the original hdd drive has died
Had the 512MB 4GB model. Very first one. $199 when it came out. Used an external USB drive and put Windows XP on the 4GB partition. My co-worker and I would play World of Warcraft on his private server. Mine had an Intel Celeron at 900MHz in it. Usually it was under-clocked to 638MHz, but could be tuned to always run at 900MHz. Ahh a 40GB external drive and EEE PC what a time.
I used an Eee PC 901 for several years, it was a fun little laptop despite the lack of horsepower. I ran Windows XP and Windows 7, and various Linux distributions on it, all of them optimised as much as possible to squeeze more performance out of the Atom CPU. Very handy for portable productivity, and even some light gaming, especially for older games. Despite the limitations I really liked the tiny form factor, I'd like to see a more modern take on a 9-10 inch laptop.
I got a few of these on the used market as netbooks were falling out of favor. I loved them.... they were fine for surfing the web, media consumption and I even installed a few older games on mine.
I max levelled the original WoW content on an Eee PC 701, lol. I still have the machine in mint condition today because I didn’t really use it much. I upgraded very quickly.
I still use mine. It's a Asus EeePC 1215B upgraded to a 120GB SSD and 4GB of DDR3. I run Ubuntu on it and....yes...it's slow...but it's been dependable for 13 years and it suits my needs.
My MSI Wind U100 (MSI's answer to Asus' Eee PC) is still functioning well today. Its single-piece bottom cover makes it easier to access all components (RAM, HDD, Wi-Fi card, cooling fan) in a single step than Eee PC. Thanks to its recovery partition and recovery CD, this tiny laptop / netbook is now the "food taster" of my modern rig when testing any used HDD or memory card I received from online sellers or salvaged from e-waste, just in case if there's anything malicious within.
Got a nearly identical one for my boss and she loved it. She just wanted something to write a book and check email on. She used a mouse with it because the pad was terrible, but she really liked the keyboard, as did I. She had actually tried a more expensive Netbook, but the keyboard sucked in that one and she just couldn't use it. The keys were flat and kind of looked like they were floating, a style I don't think I've seen much. I upgraded the RAM and did the SSD swap almost immediately (literally factored it into the price when I bought it) and it ran really well for years. It was a great device at a great price for what it did. Very durable. She only gave it up when she switched to a laptop full time. I kept it for a long time just because the form factor and solid construction. I used it for networking testing when I needed a second device. I left it on 7 for a long time, past EOL. I finally installed Linux on it (I think Mint), but it suddenly couldn't be used on battery. The battery was pretty shot, but we're taking about it just instantly powering off the second it was unplugged. I knew the battery still worked becuae it had worked earlier that day. I put 7 back on and it still wouldn't work. It was something to do with the custom install of Win7 they used, but they didn't distribute it and there was no patch. It basically became a tiny, underpowered desktop computer, which meant it was essentially useless at that age. I was really bummed and spent way too much time trying to fix it just because it was perfect for that purpose, but was useless if I had to shut down and restart just to move it across the room. I still kept it as an occasional toy for a little longer, but without being able to move it with power, I just couldn't justify keeping it. I was actually emotionally attached to it. It's one of a few computers I was genuinely sad to let go. (I also had a client give me an original Surface Pro when they upgraded and even though it's way heavier and the keyboard is pretty shot, it could run Win10. That's what I still use.)
My sister had a Toshiba netbook with Windows 7 Starter. It looked slower than 10 on this one. I installed Puppy Linux to see if it made a difference. It didn't. All I remember is screaming at it 'C'mon already!!!!" regardless of OS. Can't remember if you could add memory or when I played with it you couldn't get memory. She thought it was adequate. I thought she was crazy.
I had one year newer version of this EeePC. I loved it. Installed Windows7 Pro on it and used it for troubleshooting networks as it was small enough to fit into tight places and had an Ethernet Port.
A couple of years ago, I found a FREE Eee PC laptop on a council pick-up pile. The laptop runs well and is in very good condition, and actually had a fresh install of Windows XP, meaning that the previous owners planned for someone new to use it. Good on them. 👍
I had the first EEE pc. The old linux version. I have nothing but fond memories of it. Mine was pink. It was indestructible like an old-school Timex watch. 😊
I had an asus eeepc 1000H, almost the same model. Surprisingly, the laptop still works, and the battery still strong! I remember their tagline - easy to work, easy to learn, easy to play; hence the EEE. Windows XP was quite decent for this laptop! This was the first ever laptop that I took apart and repaired. I grew up with this, and it warms my heart to see it again, especially on this channel!
Eee PC lol that was our first laptop! used to enjoy playing Farmville back then... brings back so many happy memories.. I literally not sleep and play midnight to sunrise whilst parents asleep just to tend on my farm in Farmville.. mother used to hide the cable from DSL or broadband internet so that I would sleep during midnight lmao
I still have my eeePC 1005HA. It's hilarious how CPU bound the thing is -- putting an SSD in it made almost no difference. It served its purpose, with a light Linux distro, when I was at university.
I had a 901. I remember taking it with me on a cruise, biggest mistake of my life. I spent more time getting it to load before the connecting to wifi. Just before the iPad,
I had the 901 as well!! I installed some lite flavor of Windows 7 on it and had WoW installed, could barely check the auction house on that poor little thing 😂
I had an EEE PC for all of my college years. That little thing was amazing. It was my only PC. Web browsing, video streaming, word processing, research, powerpoint presentations, etc...I did everything on my netbook. I wasn't into gaming back then (and gaming PCs weren't a popular thing back then) so I didn't need it for that. The price of those things were great compared to regular sized laptops. I also upgraded the RAM in mine to make it a little more capable and put in a 3rd-party battery which doubled my battery capacity. All those netbooks were insanely popular for a reason...they were affordable and very capable little Windows machines. Due to their size and low power requirements you could also get decent use time out of the battery. Granted with today's tech getting smaller and smaller, the netbook today is kind of impractical but back then they were all the rage. A little part of me still misses that thing.
I actually found one of these at a thrift store (with the charger) for $12 USD about 2 months ago, it's obviously far to weak to use with Windows 10 or as a daily driver, I put WinXP 32 bit on it, and with 2GB of RAM and a 500GB SSD I had extra installed, it's a fun little nostalgic jukebox with a Bluetooth dongle installed, I also sometimes use it to mess with USB Drives and SD cards. I forgot how much I missed the old windows media player, the visuals were really fun. It actually runs some older (I mean older) 3D games and RTS games okay.
I used one of these (actually the crappier base model - the 701) as my first home "server" and incredibly crude NAS back in 08. I was given it free by a friend because his daughter threw it at her brother(!!!!) and smashed the screen - half the keys were missing too, but it was fine as an always-on server. It really did the job - I think it hung on for just over five years. Fun little machines!
You know, they were slow, but with an SSD they were a good bit faster. I owned one a while back and used it to troubleshoot networks. It was a nice diagnostic tool, as well as a productivity app platform. Forget any AAA games, but you could play quake 1,2, and 3, on it as well as unreal and unreal tournament. For what it was, it was suited for the task. It was a little sad when it finally died. I had Nomad BSD on it and had a few other flavors of Linux over the years, as well as Windows XP. I DID run Win7 on it, but it wasn't an altogether fun experience...
I've bought a number of laptops labelled 'spares or repairs', most worked perfectly. Best one was a MS Surface 3 for £20 with the keyboard & original charger, the only issue is the mashed in mini-display port. Gave it to the wife as a light laptop to carry around onsite instead of one of her 12 & 14" Lenovo's. Oh & a Lenovo 2 in one (4 core atom, 4gb ram & 64Gb) for £15 which was complete apart from the charger, just needed 30mins of juice to get it going again - worked perfectly afterwards. Daughter had that one...
I still have my Acer Aspire One netbook NAV50 Manufactured on 09/12 I turned it on and saw I put Raspberry Pi OS on it. I got the 32-bit version before they discontinued it.
I still have the same exact Eee Pc that I bought around 2008. I used it on my daily 2hr commute to code games. These days it's still used, but more as a test/tinkering machine.
One from my collection was Eee PC 1015B with AMD C-50 (1.2GHz dual core) and 1GB of RAM. When the warranty has gone i swapped the motherboard for the C-60 (1.45GHz dual core)unit with 4GB of RAM. Both motherboards had the Radeon 6250 GPU. Had no issues with NFSU/U2/Carbon or GTA:SA back in the day. Now it's a workhorse running the home media center.
@nine7295 Eee PC 1215B or PB, can't tell which exactly. It was 12" clamshell netbook, quite similar to 1015 in MoBo size, although had to cut and hot glue some mounting points at first, but now it's sitting in old DVR box with a cutout rear panel for I/O.
My Dell Mini 10v has almost the same tech specs. MacOS 10.6 was installed on mine. I bought it only because i wanted to create a hackintosh. It's still mine. But today it runs MX Linux Fluxbox 32bit, just for fun.
La tengo y justo hoy la estoy restaurando, me sirvió mucho cuando viajaba por trabajo y tenía que redactar en word, era muy practica y ligera. Luego se la di a mis hijos y ahora la estoy restaurando.
I had an Acer Aspire One that i bought in 2011 and i still have it. It was great, it can dual boot 7 and XP and the battery is still fine. I originally got it because i had a Mobile Workstation and didn't need to lug that thing around for every class, sometimes i only needed Word and it sufficed.
I loved Netbooks back in the day. I used to buy Dell netbooks and turn them into tri-boot (Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux) Hackintoshes. My first netbook was an EEE PC.
I never owned an Eee PC, but I did own a Dell Mini Inspiron 1018 and a Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3 and currently own an LG X110 and, my favorite, an ASUS N10J with dedicated graphics (GeForce 9300). I really enjoy netbooks, despite being incredibly under powered even when they were brand new.
I use to carry one of those models of the EEEPC around with me in the data centers for using it as a router, programming switches/routers....and packet diagnostics.
An Eee 904ha was my first laptop, and also my first exposure into learning how computers work. During it's normal life cycle, I even managed to upgrade the RAM... While I had it, my common tasks were, loading up episodes of my favorite shows into browser tabs, so I had something to watch on flights... Playing classic games such as Caesar 3 or Empire Earth, and playing with emulators... Some homework too, but I was a horrible student... I skipped doing most of my homework. But it only lasted for 3 years. Turns out, it's cooling wasn't quite enough, and the fan eventually died, leaving it to die a very sad overheat death. Some 2 or 3 years after that, I built a PC the right way, and I've had much more success... I've kept that PC maintained, and even though it's been through some upgrades, it's still running strong today!
I remember having one while in university. Was a great little thing. Too bad its jdd died while I wrote my bachelor's thesis... That really left a bad aftertaste to an otherwise fun device that did everything I needed (even though it took its sweet time sometimes).
i had a netbook, my dad got me it as he did wish to get me a real PC as he was trying to stop me gaming on it, but that didnt work and i still played games on it all so changed from windows 7 starter to Linux as it ran so much better with it on.
I have one of these lying around somewhere-- I'd rehabilitated it in 2019 after it had been collecting dust since 2011/12 or so. After Windows XP, I've gotten Windows Vista (which surprisingly runs pretty well with SP1) and Windows 8.1 to run decently on it. But no, it's really not usable now... and it is, in fact, ridiculously underpowered...😅
Ah the good old EEE PCs. I got 2 actually as we found them at work, they used to use them as little, portable devices to do switch configuration over console cables while on the go! They were fast enough with Terminal Programs running Windows XP. I have the S101 models, they have the exact same specs as your model except that it is running with a 16GB mSATA SSD with no way to connect a SATA drive, which is kinda unfortunate. It can't do much any more and both batts have inflated so I had to get rid of them, but one has running LMDE 6 and one got it's install of XP back. One tip if you run it with LMDE: If you install the XFCE Desktop Enviroment to it, it does help with it feeling more responsive during general offline usage. Browsing however...i mean i did manage 360p youtube playback, but that brought the whole system to halt. Still crazy that those things were 699€ back when they released!
I LOVED these when they came out. I was in highschool. I was already making money as a game developer at 16, and these lil netbooks were perfect for me. I could use and abuse them with all manner of tinkering without a care in the world. I used to buy them used in bulk and load them up with as many tiny cool freeware and retro games for friends. all the old 2000s classics. Retro emulators + a wired 360 controller made these into portable mini consoles. Ugh. So nostalgic. Really ignited my love of indie gaming when you are forced to play games that run on the GMA 950. There is nothing like a low spec computer to force you to explore aspects of tech you otherwise never would bother with. The limitation and generic cheap plastic build of this is what made it so special to me.
I still own my Eee PC 2G from many years ago. I use to run Windows XP lite on it but that was pretty much it. My one though could not add a SATA drive at all.
For electronics cleaning I usually use denatured alcohol (in the US it's where the acetone and stove fuel are in Walmart and the like). Isopropyl intended for medical use is diluted, denatured is 100% pure. Just be careful using it near soft/old plastics as it can etch/dissolve certain materials. Never seen eucalyptus oil here so can't comment on it, though Simple Green/Sprayaway aerosol foam glass cleaner works well for me.
Thanks for the video. AHHHH does sweet little pc's. i still use one with windows xp installed on it. for those nostalgic old windows software and games.
This was a great little laptop I bought one back when they were new It was a nice little XP machine I had a SSD in mine, but some were cheaper and had a SD card I HIGHLY RECOMMEND you put XP on it, and turn off the restore points and set the performance to 100% plug in And set all the effects to fastest settings And the theme to basic windows
I got an Eee PC 1001PQD running Windows 7 Starter for $10 at a flea market fairly recently. I needed to get a new charger and battery for it, but aside from that and a couple very minor cosmetic defects, it's been great.
I had an Eee PC 701 4G, for which I even ordered a touch screen upgrade from eBay in August of 2010 (just checked my emails) for 54 US dollars (looks like I had some money to spend back then :D). My plan was to somehow mount it to my car as a car PC, which I ended up doing in March of 2012, with completely different hardware.
Pretty sure I played a private server of WoW:Cata on one of those sorta devices back in the day. Absolutely terrible performance etc but being able to visit my cousin so the pair of us could play together was amazing.
7:57 You can use the Alt key and left click to move the window to a more convenient position rather than changing the orientation. Also, Alt key and right click to resize a window.
Eee PC was the first ever computer I owned. It was running XP and worked fine for things like writing and playing retro games (like StarCraft, WarCraft, HL1 etc.). And it still works today after almost 15 years of owning which includes around 7 years of hard use. It was a really handy device for the time. Think I will mess around with it soon 🌚🌚🌚
Hey btw, i had a asus eee pc with (i think) the exact same cpu and it was actually 64bit cpu on a 32bit bios, a bios update might allow you to use 64bit os Edit: i flashed a modded bios on mine and it does boot 64bit os
Well, I finally own an Eee Pc 1000 again after almost 15 years! Also a big thanks to Sharge for sponsoring today's video. Check out the Shargeek 170 here: bit.ly/4fdjADV
Nice
Congrats
should donate this to DANKPODS he would love it lol
Is 12 Volts not common in Australia? You can't swing a cat without hitting a 12v adapter in the USA.
Yeah, those laptops typically have only 1GB of ram and an atom processor. And the atom processor is a single core, and all those processors are meant for is to be efficient and cheap.
I did have an Acer netbook same specs as above, and I used it for school for a little bit and then after that, it wouldn’t do anything except run Chrome we took it to a friend to get fixed and apparently it only had a 6 GB hard drive when it advertised a 160 GB hard drive on it so the hard drive didn’t have enough storage and that’s why I was running slow we never got it back. and we lost touch with those friends because they told us they were going to buy something off of us and that they were fixing and just never got back to us
But that notebook did get 8 hours of battery life and had an excellent excellent keyboard, my favourite keyboard of all time. too bad the rest of the netbook was garbage pretty much it look nice though mine was purple in color. It was gifted to me.
The only fond memories I have of an EEEEEPEECEE is watching fellow Aussie Dank yell at one
Those are the fondest memories hehehe
Yep. RIP EEEPEEECEEE
the most cromulent of nuggets
@@Garrettdx1988
“I hate you, Windows. I HATE you, Windows! I hate YOU, Windows! I HATE YOU, WINDOWS!”
its the eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepeeceeeeeeeeeeee
"OH MY PKCell"
NOT MY HOTDOGS
Ow, my sausages.
OH MY EGGS AND SAUSAGES!
OH MY na-no
Not the duck
OI MATE ITS THE EEE PEEE CEEE
Dankpods reference
Lol love that reference
Dankpods is goateed
I can hear Wade's voice
So, like, i was goin to the maccas rite? And then when i was playn in the ball pit they told me that, like, i couldn't be there and that i was scarin the kids, so i ignored them and kept playng.
I'm in jail
Dear Mr. President, the 2nd Australian tech guy has reviewed the EEE PEE CEE
Dankpods moment
Gah damn they hit da pentagawn
Mr president, they're both from adelaide!
Needs Scarlet Fire.
@@stonentyes
Around 2010, my father got a lower 904HD version that has a smaller screen, came with Windows XP. He used it extensively to write his thesis, researching and having video calls with me until his passing in 2013.
A decade later, I resurrected his ancient netbook by installing 32 bit Debian to use it as a personal VPN server to be able to work abroad. Thanks dad!
@@quakewarsnexus8859 im sure that machine have its own sweet place in your heart knowing who owned and used it before. ❤️ cheers…
Did it work well, their fan is known as brittle af and Asus like ditched em once sold, u cant even buy a fan
Whenever i see the Eee, i think of a particular Aussie with a very loud "EEE PEE CEE!!!" ...
The man who has a pet snake and a lot of "PKCELLS!!!"
And a sexy shrek -green ipad as a placemat
Saaaaaaame
@@indra95ify And is from Adelaide, Australia.
3:06 OMYGOSH GUYS HE CALLED IT A NUGGET
HE DID!!!!!!!!
ugg nug
Hold Alt to grab and drag windows without using the titlebar, for when small resolutions place buttons off the edge.
Some DE's use Super(Windows) key instead of Alt.
Disable window compositing effects... Disable show window contents while dragging.
Try a lighter weight Desktop Environment than Cinnamon... Xfce would be a good fit.
Install a Window Manager instead of a DE... IceWM or Fluxbox for example.
Try a lightweight distro like Kali, AntiX, or DSL. All of which are still Debian based, with APT and .deb support.
Testing Yootoob in a browser is not a test of video playback... It's a test of VP9 decoding on a GPU with no hardware decoder. In a browser that may not have hardware decoding enabled.
Install h264-ify browser extension, and run it again.
I got a similar system and have Q4OS as the OS
@@HrLBolle good Idea for my Acer
@@HrLBolle It's debian with an easy installer and and a super light DE. I run that on my netbook too
Very good advice with the Alt key. Man I hate the 1024x600 screen I also have on one Raspberry, missing many OK/Cancel keys.
Need to put the taskbar to the side, maybe change DPI values even or use scaling.
MX Xfce is one of my favs and I think it even is faster than antiX or feels easier to use with WLAN setup at least.
Raspberry Pi OS x86 PIXEL (LXDE) another one, even faster, clean menu layout, shows even 5 GHz WLAN symbol in taskbar.
I need to get that 5 GHz info in my other Linux desktops as well, very helpful.
Those two distros are some of the fastest and at the same time most easiest to use Linux distros for desktops.
I tested 100+ live iso with Ventoy and classic boot methods, esp. on GMA 950 laptops and would stick with LXDE or Xfce to make it user friendly.
ToriOS was super fast, as well as Crunchbang++ and Bunsenlabs.
Haven't checked out the new DSL Debian yet, but man the old one was a tiny fast distro with many tools.
I think SliTaz is like the old DSL, but with less tools. How many 50-100 MB distros still exist? Maybe 3?
SliTaz and Porteus i586 (kinda Slax 7 successor) are quite small, even faster and interesting, but not having 35,000+ packages like Debian.
Batocera or RecalBox for retro gaming (disable any effects, shaders, filters, bezels and maybe even rewind) + Kodi (fast with confluence skin).
The Asus EeePC feels similar to a Raspberry Pi 2 v1.1 ARMHF 32 bit, about the same speed, maybe a bit slower.
SMTube + mpv is much faster than youtube in web browsers. TH-cam API in kodi is similar, but harder to search, wrongly sorted list from site 2+.
Tonvid in a web browser is faster than youtube website, but slower than SMTube and Kodi.
TH-cam with tabbed view (t key) is faster than standard youtube settings, if you have no alternative at hand. Or use small window.
Sir, This is the EXACT machine I have. This is Eee PC 1000H
it was my Father’s Advanced Christmas and birthday gift to me.
I have this netbook since October 2008.
And since I know about PCs i took care of this and still works until now. it is nearly 16 years now and still works.
since it is an old machine, i put in an SSD and installed antix Linux.
i also tried to install classic windows XP which it originally came before. and it is nostalgic…
I have a lot of machines now, but I will definitely keep this machine for as long as i can.
I love this episode… Thank you.❤❤❤❤❤❤
I have a netbook of that vintage too. Still works and I put Xp on it as well. :) I've always liked the idea of netbooks for some reason.
it was honestly an awesome machine considering how cheap it was, especially if you upgraded the ram and used either windows XP or a lightweight install of linux. I got mine in 2008 because I needed a lightweight laptop for coding and documents during business trips and long commutes that wouldn't be so expensive that I would worry about breaking it or having it stolen and a netbook worked perfectly in this role. I never found the speed to be an issue and the keyboard was comfortable for long sessions on planes and trains. It even did well running emulators and DOS era games. It was honestly a lot more versatile and powerful than the apple or android tablets of that period and even though I reluctantly upgraded to an ultrabook but I still found uses for it at home after that. I was only in 2017 when I got a Asus C101PA (basically the chrome OS version of an Asus netbook) that I found another machine with a physical keyboard that had that combined level of portability, functionality and low price. Modern 2-in-one tablets come close but the netbook form factor is just hugely underrated for on-the-go work and I would have killed to have something like that back when I was a student.
@@dgmt1 very well said ❤️👍🏻
@@LotoTheHero yes netbooks are in a class of its own. they’re low powered, underrated but a lot of times they are fun to use. simple, gets the tasks done, serves its purpose.
A lot of the Eee PCs look very similar. For example, the Eee PC 1001PQ and 1001PQD look identical.
Those 1 core Atom cpu's were real dogs performance wise; the Lenovo netbook I had in 2010 got to be obsolete very quick.
I don't miss the windows netbook era at all. they were all terrible
many netbooks were actually a lot more capable than people seem to give them credit for. The main issue is they weren't generally suited for windows 7 and later operating systems and did much better with windows XP or linux, especially with 2GB of ram. Compared to a 2008-2010 era tablet the 2008 1000H eee pc had far better functionality and performance when it came to document creation and light coding. Sure net browsing wasn't quite as smooth as say an 1st or 2nd gen ipad but I was able to get so much more work done while commuting or travelling than my colleagues who were stuck with tablets and it was still quite capable of running DOS era games and emulators up to the PSX. The EEE PC line was also quite robust for such cheap laptops; I got a solid 5+ years of work out of mine with multiple international trips and even in 2024 it still runs fine.
@@dgmt1 you can throw puppy linux on one today and it will work well.
The dual core atom lasted me till 2016
It's rough with the latest version on Debian, but still makes it through. The funny this is. All the software is capable of modern video codecs, DRM, etc.... But, the hardware will never keep up. 2003 laptop/netbook running a 2024 OS. Lol
A massive +rep for choosing LMDE 6! (and by the way by holding ALT and holding left click anywhere on the window, you can move it freely, even exceeding the screen borders)
A very similar model was my first laptop in high school - running Windows XP. Really takes me back, and laptops have improved so much since then!
Awesome mate 🔥
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Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Come to Jesus Christ today
Jesus Christ is only way to heaven
Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void.
The Holy Spirit can lead you guide and confort you through it all
Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today
Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today
John 3:16-21
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Mark 1.15
15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Hebrews 11:6
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Jesus
3:09 he said it! He said the word!
I unironically loved these. They were slow, of course, but the Internet of the time wasn't very demanding, and you could do all sorts of light-duty stuff on them - watching youtube at then-OK 480p, forums, writing, 2D drawing, easy sound/music composition, etc. They were also great to assist other PC users - you could do lots of maintenance to other systems with them. I never had the sort of patience you needed to game on them - that godawful Intel adapter sucked even at retro-games from the late nineties - but as work laptops you could toss in a backpack and that you wouldn't cry over if they got broken or lost, they were great.
yep there was so much you could do with them as long as you kept your expectations realistic and didn't put too demanding of an OS on it. I often spent 2-3 hours a day on trains and had to make international trips 1-2 times a year and having a device in my backpack that I could edit documents or code with without having to worry about paying hundreds or thousands in repair costs if it broke was a pretty big plus back then. For gaming I mostly just played older DOS games or snes/psx1 games via an emulator.
I had this same EeePC and an EeeBox from the same timeframe. I had them for my business and used them both for cheap workstations. We would plug a barcode scanner into the EeePC and roll it around on a stool to scan things into our inventory software ... cheaper than buying some proprietary handheld scanner back then!
My mom used to use one for work and I remember playing "Office" which was actually just opening word and spamming random keys while the laptop was on a cardboard box. That abruptly ended one day when I ripped off a bunch of keys. I still have it and even though the hard drive sounds like a construction site it still somehow spins to life and starts up Windows 7 Starter.
I now feel bad. Just a week ago, I threw a perfectly good, working Acer One laptop into e-waste. I suspect the Acer and the Asus were twins because so much of what you showed was the same. Like the seller, I upgraded RAM to 2Gb, and installed an SSD, and was running Linux Mint 32-bit. Sigh. Thanks for showing us this piece of history.
I have an EEE PC 1000h with q4os. Works fast with some easy tasks.
I would really like to have those. I'd try to daily drive Haiku OS on it for sure.
Hello from TX, I had an ASUS 11 inch model with an AMD CPU. It was decent and ran a few games well. I used it back when I travelled a bit to stream stuff and play occasional games. We used it for streaming at home to our TV for a while until I sold it to a mom for her student son for like $85 back in 2012.
Nearly bought one of these when they came out to supplement my massive and heavy Compaq laptop. Would have done the job for all the travelling I ended up doing after my parents moved interstate.
I've still got mine! I gave it a tidy up and clean install of XP and set it up as a retro games rig that can be shoved in a desk drawer when I'm done with it. It runs most things from the pre-Quake 3 era better than the systems I actually had at the time, ha. With Daemon Tools to handle the CD images it's a pretty neat little setup.
@@SlightlyNasty nice!!!
i installed windows xp too and run counter strike cs 1.6 ❤️ i love the nostalgic feeling.
Few in our school bought Eee PCs when they were introduced. Best thing about them? Being able to show others how small the laptop is, being size of a textbook.
I used to have one of these, it was really slow one Windows 10 but GTA 3 played nice on it.
beautiful pc, i use to have one. In 2020 i didn't had a pc so i use the Eee pc for that year, what a warrior.
Nathan, Trinity (KDE 3 based) or Debian (lxde or I3) performs fairly better than LM. You should give those a try.
I put AntiX 23.2 with IceWM, very nice and smooth . And no Wi-Fi problem at all out of fresh install. Don't know why it didn't work with LM in the video.
From what I remember, they originally came out with Knoppix on them.
I could be wrong, of course, but that's the way I remember it.
I had a Asus EEE 701SD, which came with 512MB RAM and a massive 8GB SSD (well, probably more like a EMMC). It came with it's own flavour of Linux, but ran Windows XP pretty well. I bought it new in 2009, and used it for many years for many purposes upgrading the RAM to 1GB at some point - most recently linking it up to a monitor to run old XP games that refused to run on Windows 10, by plugging in a USB DVD drive. Ironically, I decided to sell it last year - 14 years later. It was still working great, took photos and put it on eBay. It sold. Great. Thought I'd better do a final test to make sure the battery was charged etc the morning before I sent it off, and it was dead. Completely. I had to apologise profusely and refund and then sell it again for parts. The person that bought it said that battery was fine as was the SSD, as they had another they swapped parts between, so something had just completely died on the motherboard. Goodbye EEE!
In February 2020 bought a HP Mini 1104 from 2012 from a seller on eBay. It has a 320 GB HDD and 2 Gigs of RAM. Runs 32 bit version of Windows 10 Pro kind of slowly and almost all of RAM is in use all of the time. But it’s still useable.
There was a 32 bit version of Windows 10? i thought 7 and above was exclusively 64 bit compatible
@@jacobt1027 Yes. There is a 32 bit version of Windows 10. The HP Mini 1104 I bought has Windows 7 sticker on the inside below the keyboard. When I remove the battery there is a Windows 7 Pro product key. The owners before me had installed Windows 10 Pro 32 bit before they had listed it on eBay. It wasn’t activated when I first booted it up. I ended up buying a Windows 10 Pro product key from a seller on eBay and it activated without issue. I didn’t think about trying to use Windows 7 Pro product key at the time.
@@jacobt1027Yes there is a 32bit of Windows 10. Windows 11 is 64 bit. Personally I recommend Tiny10 or Ghost Spectre Windows 10 Lite or something similar. It makes the laptop a lot responsive
@@jacobt1027they stopped the 32 bit with windows 11
Yes, only XP is ok in speed. Even Windows 7 is not good.
Use other OS like very light Linux distro like AntiX etc
I still love and collect Net books, they work so good as retro gaming machines. They also make good party music machines as well 😉
3:11 “NUGGET DIIIIIP!”
I loved mine, upgraded it to 2 GB memory and a 500 GB hard drive. Perfect companion on my photo trips back in the days. 1 GB and 160 GB were required by Microsoft to get the Netbook name.
My wife and I each got one for our anniversary in 2009. Used mine until about five years ago for emulators and stuff. Ran Windows 7 like a pro.
My family used that exact same model to play movies, and now I own the netbook, pretty cool device, stays cool all the time but sadly the original hdd drive has died
Had the 512MB 4GB model. Very first one. $199 when it came out. Used an external USB drive and put Windows XP on the 4GB partition. My co-worker and I would play World of Warcraft on his private server. Mine had an Intel Celeron at 900MHz in it. Usually it was under-clocked to 638MHz, but could be tuned to always run at 900MHz. Ahh a 40GB external drive and EEE PC what a time.
My guess is that it is the 701 model?
I miss those. I had one when I traveled the country looking for work with a 3g modem back in 2009-2011. Good times.
For DankPods Fans Who Love: "Eee PC"
I had at least five of these little EeePCs , two for my tween kids back in the day. They were great budget toys & tools for my needs.
Thank you for overerhaul presentation of the Eee PC!
I used an Eee PC 901 for several years, it was a fun little laptop despite the lack of horsepower. I ran Windows XP and Windows 7, and various Linux distributions on it, all of them optimised as much as possible to squeeze more performance out of the Atom CPU. Very handy for portable productivity, and even some light gaming, especially for older games.
Despite the limitations I really liked the tiny form factor, I'd like to see a more modern take on a 9-10 inch laptop.
'hope you're good again - love what you are doing since some years now!
up to a few years ago I still used one for sound playback in a theatre
I got a few of these on the used market as netbooks were falling out of favor.
I loved them.... they were fine for surfing the web, media consumption and I even installed a few older games on mine.
I max levelled the original WoW content on an Eee PC 701, lol. I still have the machine in mint condition today because I didn’t really use it much. I upgraded very quickly.
Got one in my loft. I got it as a freebie when I signed up to Virgin broadband.
Worked well enough for it's time.
Loft 💀
I still use mine. It's a Asus EeePC 1215B upgraded to a 120GB SSD and 4GB of DDR3. I run Ubuntu on it and....yes...it's slow...but it's been dependable for 13 years and it suits my needs.
My MSI Wind U100 (MSI's answer to Asus' Eee PC) is still functioning well today. Its single-piece bottom cover makes it easier to access all components (RAM, HDD, Wi-Fi card, cooling fan) in a single step than Eee PC. Thanks to its recovery partition and recovery CD, this tiny laptop / netbook is now the "food taster" of my modern rig when testing any used HDD or memory card I received from online sellers or salvaged from e-waste, just in case if there's anything malicious within.
Got a nearly identical one for my boss and she loved it. She just wanted something to write a book and check email on. She used a mouse with it because the pad was terrible, but she really liked the keyboard, as did I. She had actually tried a more expensive Netbook, but the keyboard sucked in that one and she just couldn't use it. The keys were flat and kind of looked like they were floating, a style I don't think I've seen much.
I upgraded the RAM and did the SSD swap almost immediately (literally factored it into the price when I bought it) and it ran really well for years. It was a great device at a great price for what it did. Very durable. She only gave it up when she switched to a laptop full time.
I kept it for a long time just because the form factor and solid construction. I used it for networking testing when I needed a second device. I left it on 7 for a long time, past EOL. I finally installed Linux on it (I think Mint), but it suddenly couldn't be used on battery. The battery was pretty shot, but we're taking about it just instantly powering off the second it was unplugged. I knew the battery still worked becuae it had worked earlier that day. I put 7 back on and it still wouldn't work. It was something to do with the custom install of Win7 they used, but they didn't distribute it and there was no patch. It basically became a tiny, underpowered desktop computer, which meant it was essentially useless at that age. I was really bummed and spent way too much time trying to fix it just because it was perfect for that purpose, but was useless if I had to shut down and restart just to move it across the room.
I still kept it as an occasional toy for a little longer, but without being able to move it with power, I just couldn't justify keeping it. I was actually emotionally attached to it.
It's one of a few computers I was genuinely sad to let go.
(I also had a client give me an original Surface Pro when they upgraded and even though it's way heavier and the keyboard is pretty shot, it could run Win10. That's what I still use.)
My sister had a Toshiba netbook with Windows 7 Starter. It looked slower than 10 on this one. I installed Puppy Linux to see if it made a difference. It didn't. All I remember is screaming at it 'C'mon already!!!!" regardless of OS. Can't remember if you could add memory or when I played with it you couldn't get memory. She thought it was adequate. I thought she was crazy.
You can't fix an atom processor
I just put AntiX 23.2 on it and it's good. Maybe you are expecting too much because Puppy should be very light weight.
"you"???
I had one year newer version of this EeePC. I loved it. Installed Windows7 Pro on it and used it for troubleshooting networks as it was small enough to fit into tight places and had an Ethernet Port.
A couple of years ago, I found a FREE Eee PC laptop on a council pick-up pile. The laptop runs well and is in very good condition, and actually had a fresh install of Windows XP, meaning that the previous owners planned for someone new to use it. Good on them. 👍
I had the first EEE pc. The old linux version. I have nothing but fond memories of it. Mine was pink. It was indestructible like an old-school Timex watch. 😊
I had an asus eeepc 1000H, almost the same model. Surprisingly, the laptop still works, and the battery still strong! I remember their tagline - easy to work, easy to learn, easy to play; hence the EEE.
Windows XP was quite decent for this laptop! This was the first ever laptop that I took apart and repaired. I grew up with this, and it warms my heart to see it again, especially on this channel!
I can still use the HE and I just put AntiX in it
Eee PC lol that was our first laptop! used to enjoy playing Farmville back then... brings back so many happy memories.. I literally not sleep and play midnight to sunrise whilst parents asleep just to tend on my farm in Farmville.. mother used to hide the cable from DSL or broadband internet so that I would sleep during midnight lmao
I still have my eeePC 1005HA. It's hilarious how CPU bound the thing is -- putting an SSD in it made almost no difference.
It served its purpose, with a light Linux distro, when I was at university.
SSD = Battery life
I had a 901. I remember taking it with me on a cruise, biggest mistake of my life. I spent more time getting it to load before the connecting to wifi. Just before the iPad,
I had the 901 as well!! I installed some lite flavor of Windows 7 on it and had WoW installed, could barely check the auction house on that poor little thing 😂
I had a couple of these. My favorite was the e-350 based system, it ran everything I wanted and could even sort of play Skyrim at minimum settings.
I had an EEE PC for all of my college years. That little thing was amazing. It was my only PC. Web browsing, video streaming, word processing, research, powerpoint presentations, etc...I did everything on my netbook. I wasn't into gaming back then (and gaming PCs weren't a popular thing back then) so I didn't need it for that. The price of those things were great compared to regular sized laptops. I also upgraded the RAM in mine to make it a little more capable and put in a 3rd-party battery which doubled my battery capacity. All those netbooks were insanely popular for a reason...they were affordable and very capable little Windows machines. Due to their size and low power requirements you could also get decent use time out of the battery. Granted with today's tech getting smaller and smaller, the netbook today is kind of impractical but back then they were all the rage. A little part of me still misses that thing.
I actually found one of these at a thrift store (with the charger) for $12 USD about 2 months ago, it's obviously far to weak to use with Windows 10 or as a daily driver, I put WinXP 32 bit on it, and with 2GB of RAM and a 500GB SSD I had extra installed, it's a fun little nostalgic jukebox with a Bluetooth dongle installed, I also sometimes use it to mess with USB Drives and SD cards. I forgot how much I missed the old windows media player, the visuals were really fun. It actually runs some older (I mean older) 3D games and RTS games okay.
Hello,
i had an eeepc for OBD Tuning my Ford Focus ST225.
was pretty neat.
have a good day. greetings from germany
I used one of these (actually the crappier base model - the 701) as my first home "server" and incredibly crude NAS back in 08. I was given it free by a friend because his daughter threw it at her brother(!!!!) and smashed the screen - half the keys were missing too, but it was fine as an always-on server. It really did the job - I think it hung on for just over five years. Fun little machines!
You know, they were slow, but with an SSD they were a good bit faster. I owned one a while back and used it to troubleshoot networks. It was a nice diagnostic tool, as well as a productivity app platform. Forget any AAA games, but you could play quake 1,2, and 3, on it as well as unreal and unreal tournament. For what it was, it was suited for the task. It was a little sad when it finally died. I had Nomad BSD on it and had a few other flavors of Linux over the years, as well as Windows XP. I DID run Win7 on it, but it wasn't an altogether fun experience...
I've bought a number of laptops labelled 'spares or repairs', most worked perfectly. Best one was a MS Surface 3 for £20 with the keyboard & original charger, the only issue is the mashed in mini-display port. Gave it to the wife as a light laptop to carry around onsite instead of one of her 12 & 14" Lenovo's. Oh & a Lenovo 2 in one (4 core atom, 4gb ram & 64Gb) for £15 which was complete apart from the charger, just needed 30mins of juice to get it going again - worked perfectly afterwards. Daughter had that one...
Sure that da daughter is disappointed
I still have my Acer Aspire One netbook NAV50 Manufactured on 09/12 I turned it on and saw I put Raspberry Pi OS on it. I got the 32-bit version before they discontinued it.
I still have the same exact Eee Pc that I bought around 2008. I used it on my daily 2hr commute to code games. These days it's still used, but more as a test/tinkering machine.
One from my collection was Eee PC 1015B with AMD C-50 (1.2GHz dual core) and 1GB of RAM. When the warranty has gone i swapped the motherboard for the C-60 (1.45GHz dual core)unit with 4GB of RAM. Both motherboards had the Radeon 6250 GPU. Had no issues with NFSU/U2/Carbon or GTA:SA back in the day. Now it's a workhorse running the home media center.
Where do you get the convertible motherboard from? Another model in the series?
@nine7295 Eee PC 1215B or PB, can't tell which exactly. It was 12" clamshell netbook, quite similar to 1015 in MoBo size, although had to cut and hot glue some mounting points at first, but now it's sitting in old DVR box with a cutout rear panel for I/O.
Wow I remember these things. We used to run Mac OS X 10.5.6 on them - made a good hackintosh.
My Dell Mini 10v has almost the same tech specs. MacOS 10.6 was installed on mine. I bought it only because i wanted to create a hackintosh. It's still mine. But today it runs MX Linux Fluxbox 32bit, just for fun.
La tengo y justo hoy la estoy restaurando, me sirvió mucho cuando viajaba por trabajo y tenía que redactar en word, era muy practica y ligera. Luego se la di a mis hijos y ahora la estoy restaurando.
I had an Acer Aspire One that i bought in 2011 and i still have it. It was great, it can dual boot 7 and XP and the battery is still fine.
I originally got it because i had a Mobile Workstation and didn't need to lug that thing around for every class, sometimes i only needed Word and it sufficed.
I loved Netbooks back in the day. I used to buy Dell netbooks and turn them into tri-boot (Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux) Hackintoshes. My first netbook was an EEE PC.
I never owned an Eee PC, but I did own a Dell Mini Inspiron 1018 and a Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3 and currently own an LG X110 and, my favorite, an ASUS N10J with dedicated graphics (GeForce 9300). I really enjoy netbooks, despite being incredibly under powered even when they were brand new.
You're back! excellent start of the week!
I use to carry one of those models of the EEEPC around with me in the data centers for using it as a router, programming switches/routers....and packet diagnostics.
fellas keep in mind ubuntu 14.04 from 2014 still has support till the end of this year and runs on 256mb of ram :3
7:59 Pressing alt while clicking a window allows you to move it up above the top of the screen!
An Eee 904ha was my first laptop, and also my first exposure into learning how computers work. During it's normal life cycle, I even managed to upgrade the RAM... While I had it, my common tasks were, loading up episodes of my favorite shows into browser tabs, so I had something to watch on flights... Playing classic games such as Caesar 3 or Empire Earth, and playing with emulators... Some homework too, but I was a horrible student... I skipped doing most of my homework.
But it only lasted for 3 years. Turns out, it's cooling wasn't quite enough, and the fan eventually died, leaving it to die a very sad overheat death. Some 2 or 3 years after that, I built a PC the right way, and I've had much more success... I've kept that PC maintained, and even though it's been through some upgrades, it's still running strong today!
I remember having one while in university. Was a great little thing. Too bad its jdd died while I wrote my bachelor's thesis...
That really left a bad aftertaste to an otherwise fun device that did everything I needed (even though it took its sweet time sometimes).
Acer Aspire One 751h, 2011, summer which I never ever forget that summer.
i had a netbook, my dad got me it as he did wish to get me a real PC as he was trying to stop me gaming on it, but that didnt work and i still played games on it all so changed from windows 7 starter to Linux as it ran so much better with it on.
I have one of these lying around somewhere-- I'd rehabilitated it in 2019 after it had been collecting dust since 2011/12 or so. After Windows XP, I've gotten Windows Vista (which surprisingly runs pretty well with SP1) and Windows 8.1 to run decently on it. But no, it's really not usable now... and it is, in fact, ridiculously underpowered...😅
Ah the good old EEE PCs. I got 2 actually as we found them at work, they used to use them as little, portable devices to do switch configuration over console cables while on the go! They were fast enough with Terminal Programs running Windows XP. I have the S101 models, they have the exact same specs as your model except that it is running with a 16GB mSATA SSD with no way to connect a SATA drive, which is kinda unfortunate. It can't do much any more and both batts have inflated so I had to get rid of them, but one has running LMDE 6 and one got it's install of XP back. One tip if you run it with LMDE: If you install the XFCE Desktop Enviroment to it, it does help with it feeling more responsive during general offline usage. Browsing however...i mean i did manage 360p youtube playback, but that brought the whole system to halt. Still crazy that those things were 699€ back when they released!
I now use AntiX with Ice WM on the very same model as in the video. No problem and very smooth.
I LOVED these when they came out. I was in highschool. I was already making money as a game developer at 16, and these lil netbooks were perfect for me. I could use and abuse them with all manner of tinkering without a care in the world. I used to buy them used in bulk and load them up with as many tiny cool freeware and retro games for friends. all the old 2000s classics. Retro emulators + a wired 360 controller made these into portable mini consoles. Ugh. So nostalgic. Really ignited my love of indie gaming when you are forced to play games that run on the GMA 950. There is nothing like a low spec computer to force you to explore aspects of tech you otherwise never would bother with. The limitation and generic cheap plastic build of this is what made it so special to me.
OMG!!!! MY FRIEND STILL HAS THAT EXACT SAME NETBOOK AT HIS HOME!!! 😍
i remember in the 2010's and the insane modding peeps were doing with these
If you hold alt and click the Window you can drag the edge off screen so you can see the rest of the window. Works in most Linux DE's.
I still own my Eee PC 2G from many years ago. I use to run Windows XP lite on it but that was pretty much it. My one though could not add a SATA drive at all.
FINALLY ANOTHER VIDEO :D
For electronics cleaning I usually use denatured alcohol (in the US it's where the acetone and stove fuel are in Walmart and the like). Isopropyl intended for medical use is diluted, denatured is 100% pure. Just be careful using it near soft/old plastics as it can etch/dissolve certain materials. Never seen eucalyptus oil here so can't comment on it, though Simple Green/Sprayaway aerosol foam glass cleaner works well for me.
Thanks for the video.
AHHHH does sweet little pc's.
i still use one with windows xp installed on it.
for those nostalgic old windows software and games.
This was a great little laptop
I bought one back when they were new
It was a nice little XP machine
I had a SSD in mine, but some were cheaper and had a SD card
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND you put XP on it, and turn off the restore points and set the performance to 100% plug in
And set all the effects to fastest settings
And the theme to basic windows
I got an Eee PC 1001PQD running Windows 7 Starter for $10 at a flea market fairly recently. I needed to get a new charger and battery for it, but aside from that and a couple very minor cosmetic defects, it's been great.
I had an Eee PC 701 4G, for which I even ordered a touch screen upgrade from eBay in August of 2010 (just checked my emails) for 54 US dollars (looks like I had some money to spend back then :D). My plan was to somehow mount it to my car as a car PC, which I ended up doing in March of 2012, with completely different hardware.
Pretty sure I played a private server of WoW:Cata on one of those sorta devices back in the day. Absolutely terrible performance etc but being able to visit my cousin so the pair of us could play together was amazing.
7:57 You can use the Alt key and left click to move the window to a more convenient position rather than changing the orientation. Also, Alt key and right click to resize a window.
I trippled booted one of these Atom chip netbooks- Linux, MacOS and Windows 7! My Surface Go 3 (i3 8GB) is quite an improvement these days!
Eee PC was the first ever computer I owned. It was running XP and worked fine for things like writing and playing retro games (like StarCraft, WarCraft, HL1 etc.). And it still works today after almost 15 years of owning which includes around 7 years of hard use. It was a really handy device for the time. Think I will mess around with it soon 🌚🌚🌚
Hey btw, i had a asus eee pc with (i think) the exact same cpu and it was actually 64bit cpu on a 32bit bios, a bios update might allow you to use 64bit os
Edit: i flashed a modded bios on mine and it does boot 64bit os
That's cool! That'll extend the usefulness of such a device :)
Off topic, but it's refreshing to see a proper (I'm guessing) mechanical watch in the sea of smartwatches spotted on other youtubers.
Oh my. I miss this machine. I had one as my first work laptop. Don't ask.