oh wow I had this in 2008 and in a college class a song started playing during a lecture. I couldn't mute it even though it said it was and just had to pull the battery out very dramatically. lost all my notes
It's more accurate to say the graphics are non-existent - GMA relied on the host CPU to handle some of the graphics pipeline. So if you had a slow single-core CPU, you are going to have a *really bad* time with GMA. About the most you could hope for with GMA was video playback, and because of the reliance on the CPU, probably DVD quality for the anemic Atom series. We've had hardware video decoding for so long, I honestly couldn't tell you what CPU performance is needed for HD software decoded video playback.
Greetings! Intel Atom enthusiast here (no I didn't stutter). Cool video! Some thoughts to keep in mind: 1. Yes you are 100% correct that the system is often actually GPU-bound, however that actually happens most often in Linux. This is because Linux has maintained very lightweight CPU usage on almost every distro that isn't trying to be Windows / MacOS; GPUs however pretty much always come with overhead because they are worse-optimized than the Windows counterparts 99% of the time. On Windows it's actually the reverse issue where the GPU driver is HECKA optimized (you can thank Core 2 Duo machines for that); the CPU however is a massive bottleneck because despite being hyperthreaded Windows just does NOT like only having 1 core. 2. If you try Windows 10, prepare to be shocked as EVERY driver is in their database for this machine and installs automatically when you run Windows Update. Kind of wild considering just how weak these netbooks are but yep, they certainly make that easier. 3. Tiny10 is pretty much the only chance any of these machines have of running Windows well, and even then there's still more optimizations you need to do. I might do a video at some point about how I managed to get Windows optimized so well for this hardware that I daily drove it for a week and even multi-tasked with web browsing, YT videos and Discord. 4. Of the Linux distros I've tried on these (and I've tried a LOT of them) Linux Mint 19.3 XFCE 32-Bit is shockingly usable on this hardware and is by far the best distro for these netbooks, at least from my own personal experience. 5. Would you believe that there is a "holy grail" of these netbooks that came with Nvidia GPUs? I just managed to get my hands on one of them and I have to say, I am SHOCKED at how well it runs Windows 10. I gave it all the same optimizations and Tiny10 just like with these weaker netbooks, but it actually didn't need it. That netbook has the exact same CPU, an Nvidia Ion Graphics Coprocessor, DDR3 RAM (expandable to up to 5GB of RAM) and an optional slot for a second mSATA SSD. I currently have a Samsung drive in it and 5GB of RAM and it really proves how capable these CPUs were (which isn't saying much but still it's a usable machine even at the 1366x768 resolution the display provides). Nvidia even released an official Windows 10 driver for the graphics chip. If you want to see what the "best of the worst" looks like, highly recommend snagging an HP Mini 311 Netbook. 6. 1GB of RAM is actually usable on Mint 19.3 XFCE 32-Bit, but 2GB of RAM helps the GPU out a lot since it uses the system RAM as VRAM (something some of these netbooks lets you configure in the BIOS). 7. Some of these netbooks will let you FSB overvolt the machine, resulting in a CPU overclock. I do not think this system supports that (and even if it did I highly recommend not doing that because the stock cooling solution in these Eee PCs is actually not good enough to run the CPU at full tilt even without an OC). 8. Yeah as I just mentioned, a lot of these netbooks were actually thermal-throttling and making the already-weak CPU even weaker (I have one of these netbooks that had such a problem and a messed-up case; it's now a custom desktop PC with better cooling from a Raspberry Pi, which is unironically better than the stock cooler haha). 9. There do exist "gaming" devices with this generation of Atoms. They were the slightly-newer 3xx series but there are a small handful of boards meant for BluRay video playback and other multimedia functions (which did work quite well on XP). I bought the Zotac IonITX-F-E, which specifically mentions gaming as a potential use case for the system (it comes with an Atom 330 that I FSB overvolted from 1.6Ghz to 1.8Ghz, along with a GTX 480 and 4GB of DDR2; it's now a custom gaming PC :D) 10. Windows XP runs VERY nicely on these systems (some even came with XP as it was still being supported until 2014) and actually makes for a neat little retro gaming PC (you'd be surprised at how "not terrible" the little iGPU is on these in XP) 11. There is an open-source version of ChromeOS (I think called Flex OS?) that should also run decently on such hardware. 12. On a final note, the 5400RPM HDDs that came with these systems actually also caused additional slowdown and bottlenecks on them, even back in the day (at least, the ones that shipped with Windows 7 had such problems; XP still benefits from an SSD quite a bit on this hardware but a HDD isn't as drastic of a slowdown as on Windows 7). Feel free to ask any questions if you need help. I have (actually... I have no idea exactly how many O.O) netbooks, hybrid systems, laptops, custom-built desktops, tablets, etc. all with Intel Atom CPUs of various ages at their core (I actually just *mostly* finished a project wherein I converted a busted-up HP Stream 11 Netbook into a custom SFF desktop PC, including patching in an Nvidia Quadro GPU). Cheers!
Yeah I love netbooks but they are really under powered I would switch to one if I could, it would be really awesome to find one of those nvidia gpu ones. this EEEPC does not come with a hard drive and comes with a 4gb SSD and a dirt slow 30gb SSD. I have a emachines EM250 which has a even worse CPU with only 1 core.
@@Tech86807 I have that eMachines and yeah when I look at your Asus I can tell that that's the newer dual core variants of that machine I have the older variance that has the much slower single core hyper-threaded model. That is the one I was talking about that I got to run Windows 10 acceptably yours should be even more doable than that I have a different machine with your processor in it and on Tiny10 it's actually very usable on Lower resolutions
Hey! Do you have any experience with the Lenovo Ideapad s10 Series? They're so cute and small but have Intel Atom and I am worried I won't be able to run much on it. I only want to use google docs but when they suffer web browsing, it becomes difficult! I am running Linux Xubuntu of my current laptop, but I just really want something tiny :P
@@Niindles I'm not too familiar with that particular model so let me give you some pieces of advice: if it's one of the older series of netbooks from 2009 to 2011 then you will probably not have a good experience with it. Though I've done a lot of work in the past to make them usable they are extremely low powered to the point of frustration at times depending on what you want to do with it. If you enjoy getting a project that you want to Tinker with are you okay with putting up with the severe limitations then it can work well for you but otherwise you will probably hate it. Now if this is one of the newer netbooks that's on the Cherry Trail Atoms or something of that nature then I would definitely recommend it is they are plenty capable enough.
I had an EeePC that had teh same hardware as the MSI wind U100. The wind U100 had an overclock feature built in the BIOS and it was possible to crossflash the EeePC to an Wind U100. Maybe you have the right one, I dodn't remember the exactmodel numer. something like 1025 written on the bootom side sticker or similar.
I remember running GTA san andreas on this (running windowsXP) and that ran pretty well. Performance of the GPU running linux is a lot worse. For productivity it was an alright machine, typing on it was suprisingly good.
Hey! good call on the RAM, it's exactly what you did when this was brand new - it was garbage even then. BUT - it runs HOMM 3 and 4, and had a 9 cell replaceable battery so you could pass a long shift somewhere even without charging! :D
plus - maybe it'll run better with winXP, try to find like a skinny xp build, i know there are a couple out there. it'll still suck on youtube but you can play oldies, emulators and basic surfing - I wouldn't try to use it for documents - the resolution is crap for that.
Im gunna try and install steam on my eeepc and see how shitty it is also the base operating system was cool at the time but now allllll the links are dead ):
hey man. Looks like a good start for the channel. I'd strongly advise you to get a stabilizer tho. The EIS jiggle is REAL. Do you have any projects the EeePC it or any other device on the channel in mind?
Hold on...this gave me OH MAN! DANK PODS VIBES WITH THE EEE PC LMAOO
Same Lol😂
Did you like my terrible accent ;)
@@Tech86807
It's not terrible
Actually i didn't notice what accent it was 🤣
But great video keep on the good content 🔥👍
it was supposed to be dankpods you know the ipad and the imac too? @@Ramy_Lm
oh wow I had this in 2008 and in a college class a song started playing during a lecture. I couldn't mute it even though it said it was and just had to pull the battery out very dramatically. lost all my notes
I really want one and all I’m really gonna do on. It is run batch code and probably. Write some ISO files onto a Flash drive.
It's more accurate to say the graphics are non-existent - GMA relied on the host CPU to handle some of the graphics pipeline. So if you had a slow single-core CPU, you are going to have a *really bad* time with GMA. About the most you could hope for with GMA was video playback, and because of the reliance on the CPU, probably DVD quality for the anemic Atom series. We've had hardware video decoding for so long, I honestly couldn't tell you what CPU performance is needed for HD software decoded video playback.
I wasn't ready for the boot. You have to warn us when you're arming a nugget
Greetings! Intel Atom enthusiast here (no I didn't stutter). Cool video! Some thoughts to keep in mind:
1. Yes you are 100% correct that the system is often actually GPU-bound, however that actually happens most often in Linux. This is because Linux has maintained very lightweight CPU usage on almost every distro that isn't trying to be Windows / MacOS; GPUs however pretty much always come with overhead because they are worse-optimized than the Windows counterparts 99% of the time. On Windows it's actually the reverse issue where the GPU driver is HECKA optimized (you can thank Core 2 Duo machines for that); the CPU however is a massive bottleneck because despite being hyperthreaded Windows just does NOT like only having 1 core.
2. If you try Windows 10, prepare to be shocked as EVERY driver is in their database for this machine and installs automatically when you run Windows Update. Kind of wild considering just how weak these netbooks are but yep, they certainly make that easier.
3. Tiny10 is pretty much the only chance any of these machines have of running Windows well, and even then there's still more optimizations you need to do. I might do a video at some point about how I managed to get Windows optimized so well for this hardware that I daily drove it for a week and even multi-tasked with web browsing, YT videos and Discord.
4. Of the Linux distros I've tried on these (and I've tried a LOT of them) Linux Mint 19.3 XFCE 32-Bit is shockingly usable on this hardware and is by far the best distro for these netbooks, at least from my own personal experience.
5. Would you believe that there is a "holy grail" of these netbooks that came with Nvidia GPUs? I just managed to get my hands on one of them and I have to say, I am SHOCKED at how well it runs Windows 10. I gave it all the same optimizations and Tiny10 just like with these weaker netbooks, but it actually didn't need it. That netbook has the exact same CPU, an Nvidia Ion Graphics Coprocessor, DDR3 RAM (expandable to up to 5GB of RAM) and an optional slot for a second mSATA SSD. I currently have a Samsung drive in it and 5GB of RAM and it really proves how capable these CPUs were (which isn't saying much but still it's a usable machine even at the 1366x768 resolution the display provides). Nvidia even released an official Windows 10 driver for the graphics chip. If you want to see what the "best of the worst" looks like, highly recommend snagging an HP Mini 311 Netbook.
6. 1GB of RAM is actually usable on Mint 19.3 XFCE 32-Bit, but 2GB of RAM helps the GPU out a lot since it uses the system RAM as VRAM (something some of these netbooks lets you configure in the BIOS).
7. Some of these netbooks will let you FSB overvolt the machine, resulting in a CPU overclock. I do not think this system supports that (and even if it did I highly recommend not doing that because the stock cooling solution in these Eee PCs is actually not good enough to run the CPU at full tilt even without an OC).
8. Yeah as I just mentioned, a lot of these netbooks were actually thermal-throttling and making the already-weak CPU even weaker (I have one of these netbooks that had such a problem and a messed-up case; it's now a custom desktop PC with better cooling from a Raspberry Pi, which is unironically better than the stock cooler haha).
9. There do exist "gaming" devices with this generation of Atoms. They were the slightly-newer 3xx series but there are a small handful of boards meant for BluRay video playback and other multimedia functions (which did work quite well on XP). I bought the Zotac IonITX-F-E, which specifically mentions gaming as a potential use case for the system (it comes with an Atom 330 that I FSB overvolted from 1.6Ghz to 1.8Ghz, along with a GTX 480 and 4GB of DDR2; it's now a custom gaming PC :D)
10. Windows XP runs VERY nicely on these systems (some even came with XP as it was still being supported until 2014) and actually makes for a neat little retro gaming PC (you'd be surprised at how "not terrible" the little iGPU is on these in XP)
11. There is an open-source version of ChromeOS (I think called Flex OS?) that should also run decently on such hardware.
12. On a final note, the 5400RPM HDDs that came with these systems actually also caused additional slowdown and bottlenecks on them, even back in the day (at least, the ones that shipped with Windows 7 had such problems; XP still benefits from an SSD quite a bit on this hardware but a HDD isn't as drastic of a slowdown as on Windows 7).
Feel free to ask any questions if you need help. I have (actually... I have no idea exactly how many O.O) netbooks, hybrid systems, laptops, custom-built desktops, tablets, etc. all with Intel Atom CPUs of various ages at their core (I actually just *mostly* finished a project wherein I converted a busted-up HP Stream 11 Netbook into a custom SFF desktop PC, including patching in an Nvidia Quadro GPU). Cheers!
Yeah I love netbooks but they are really under powered I would switch to one if I could, it would be really awesome to find one of those nvidia gpu ones. this EEEPC does not come with a hard drive and comes with a 4gb SSD and a dirt slow 30gb SSD. I have a emachines EM250 which has a even worse CPU with only 1 core.
@@Tech86807 I have that eMachines and yeah when I look at your Asus I can tell that that's the newer dual core variants of that machine I have the older variance that has the much slower single core hyper-threaded model. That is the one I was talking about that I got to run Windows 10 acceptably yours should be even more doable than that I have a different machine with your processor in it and on Tiny10 it's actually very usable on Lower resolutions
Hey! Do you have any experience with the Lenovo Ideapad s10 Series? They're so cute and small but have Intel Atom and I am worried I won't be able to run much on it. I only want to use google docs but when they suffer web browsing, it becomes difficult! I am running Linux Xubuntu of my current laptop, but I just really want something tiny :P
@@Niindles I'm not too familiar with that particular model so let me give you some pieces of advice: if it's one of the older series of netbooks from 2009 to 2011 then you will probably not have a good experience with it. Though I've done a lot of work in the past to make them usable they are extremely low powered to the point of frustration at times depending on what you want to do with it. If you enjoy getting a project that you want to Tinker with are you okay with putting up with the severe limitations then it can work well for you but otherwise you will probably hate it. Now if this is one of the newer netbooks that's on the Cherry Trail Atoms or something of that nature then I would definitely recommend it is they are plenty capable enough.
@@xPLAYnOfficial Can you recommend a particular model of the newer netbooks?
In 2024 I use EeePC 1000HE with Debian. Not my main PC but definitely usable, especially for writing text, and development of non-graphical software.
I had an EeePC that had teh same hardware as the MSI wind U100. The wind U100 had an overclock feature built in the BIOS and it was possible to crossflash the EeePC to an Wind U100. Maybe you have the right one, I dodn't remember the exactmodel numer. something like 1025 written on the bootom side sticker or similar.
He has the 1000HE model.
Thing about the graphics cards is that usually most OS other then the original it came with wont work unfortunately
It's just as bad on windows
I remember running GTA san andreas on this (running windowsXP) and that ran pretty well. Performance of the GPU running linux is a lot worse. For productivity it was an alright machine, typing on it was suprisingly good.
I can remember san andreas really having trouble working on my MEDION equivalent to this... Vice City on the other hand worked really well
It wont let me play old school
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i am youe 260th subscriber :)
Thank you :)
@@Tech86807I'm 266
I bought my eeePC 1000HE when it was released. I had to retire it after a few years because it was horrendously slow.
I remember the MSI version in 2006-07, it was slow back than. It was good for hackintosh but pretty much it
Yeah that ones better then this I've been thinking about hackintoshijg this one but no disk drive
I cant seem to get it connected to wifi
I had the same issue on windows 7 after a while
@@Tech86807 i jjst cant get the wifi to turn on the f2 fn wont turn it on
Cool video bruh but PLEASE put the camera in a tripod, it's too shaky
I need to buy one
can you also upload the linux iso ?
i have two 1000h and one 1000hg myself ... and i love Linux ;)
why just not download it? it's antix linux
@@hermokuolio01As far as I know, they shipped with a customized variant of Xandros Linux by default.
Yeah its just basic antiX you can get off the website
Hey! good call on the RAM, it's exactly what you did when this was brand new - it was garbage even then. BUT - it runs HOMM 3 and 4, and had a 9 cell replaceable battery so you could pass a long shift somewhere even without charging! :D
plus - maybe it'll run better with winXP, try to find like a skinny xp build, i know there are a couple out there. it'll still suck on youtube but you can play oldies, emulators and basic surfing - I wouldn't try to use it for documents - the resolution is crap for that.
The accent, the nugget. The EeeePeeeCeee.
Im gunna try and install steam on my eeepc and see how shitty it is also the base operating system was cool at the time but now allllll the links are dead ):
hey man. Looks like a good start for the channel. I'd strongly advise you to get a stabilizer tho. The EIS jiggle is REAL.
Do you have any projects the EeePC it or any other device on the channel in mind?
Yeah I don't even have a tripod yet, not sure what you mean by the second question.
i played minecraft 1.8 on a netbook(but on toshiba from 2009) and even enjoyed it
Beta 1.8 most likely cant even run that on here on windows and linux it crashes the other netbook I looked at I could get it to run
@@Tech86807 nah, not beta, but normal release, i played multiplayer on it.
u need a usb external optical drive
You are giving 2010-ish youtuber vibes. Keep it up.
Thank you :)
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It can play Diablo 2!
Donk pads
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