yes, i know they are old and bad. but i want something with a 10” screen i can put linux on. show me what you got
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i have this asus eee pc 701. it shipped with linux and was exceptionally cheap at the time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus_Eee_PC other variants had a much more powerful intel atom processor that would run windows xp. my dad uses one to this day
I have an eeepc 701SD and while 8 gigs of storage is not great, especially as I want to dual-boot on it, it's a really nice machine to hack stuff on. it's low-power enough that it can run without proper power management and not get uncomfortably hot, the half a gig of RAM is still enough for lighter free software OSs, and it using an SSD I don't have to worry about damaging the HDD by handling it roughly
the chromebook is basically the modern netbook, you can find something EoL for cheap enough like an Acer R11 with a celeron etc probably
i suppose it depends on the chromebook you get, they come in a broad range of prices and specs from "absolute shitter with a crappy mediatek arm chip built to a hundred dollar price point to make up a disposable fleet of em for a school to lend out" to "why is this a chromebook it has a core i7 or i9 or whatever"
i stick with the celeron powered ones with 4-8gb of ram and a nice touchscreen. still with 1366x768 panels tho lmao
what i'm looking for is small size. not to be confused with thinness. my smallest Good Computer was the E4300 (which was I think 13", i want to go smaller), so that's my benchmark really
I got a One Notebook A1! It's funny and strange and from AliExpress but it has the only tablet/laptop folding hinge that's ever worked right for me, a touchscreen that works with your fingers out of the box and a pen with a kernel patch, and a truly baby 6" screen. Most importantly, though, it has PORTS: 2x USB3.0 A, 1x USB C (PD, Displayport, USB3.0), normal non-folding non-flimsy RJ45 Ethernet, DB9 RS232 serial, 3.5mm TRRS audio, and micro-HDMI. I got the version with 8gb of RAM but they have a version with 16gb and larger now!
hello and welcome to the first annual meeting of the no touchscreens club
Eh, I was a member of that club, but contemporary AliExpress subnetbooks have a fairly annoying IR touchpad, so it's that, touchscreen, or carrying an external pointing device as large as the laptop. Styluses improve small touchscreens a lot, because you get some precision and a right-click back.
This is fair. The 8gb version, once upon a time, could be had for 500$ new, and a friend found one used and repairably broken for 50$ on eBay, but I take your point. I needed a new primary laptop, so it made sense for me at the time.
my intent is purely to have a little goblin machine i can toiletpost from at work. i'm sure it's a pretty good main machine though