Gregory's Serveri have been given a perfectly working asus eee pc - a really cute and tiny laptop from like 2008 that runs some kinda linux out of the box. i don't know what i am going to do with it but excited to play :)
0.5 liter water bottle for scale
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 @palomakop totally unsolicited netbook gushing: this is one of my favorite computers. one of those (in white) was my main laptop from around 2006 to 2009. i replaced the xandros linux with Arch. i still have it, as well as some other of the eee models. my favorite is the eee 900. @palomakop they are wonderful little machines. I had two, one still working. Some people modded them with touch screens and all sorts. @palomakop I had one of those in college! Still have it kicking around somewhere... They're wonderful little things - very tight on memory (ram/hdd are shared space!) but fast and excellent as digital notepads. |
@palomakop OMG I LOVED THAT ERA OF THOSE THINGS
middle school me would go to Target/Walmart/Best Buy/etc. and just gawk at how this Nerd OS I was running on my desktop at home finally made it "to the mainstream" on adorably tiny, affordable computers. I think being in such awe at netbooks then is why I still, to this day, typically prefer <13" laptops. 12.3" 3:2 with minimal bezels (so... basically Surface Laptop Go, tbqh) is like my ideal form factor in some ways.