The $3 Eee Pc Laptop From eBay...

While browsing eBay I saw an Asus Eee Pc 1000HE for only $3! Does it work? Is it at all usable here in 2024? Let's find out :) #eeepc #netbook #laptop

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Nathan Sivewright
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Asus Eee PC 1000HE Specifications:
Intel N270 1.6GHz Atom CPU (1 Core, 2 threads)
2GB DDR2 667MHz Ram
64GB SATA Solid State Drive
10.1" Display (1024x600)
Intel GMA 950 Graphics

[Garrettdx]

The only fond memories I have of an is watching fellow Aussie Dank yell at one

[emdotrod]

Dear Mr. President, the 2nd Australian tech guy has reviewed the EEE PEE CEE

[isthattee]

Whenever i see the Eee, i think of a particular Aussie with a very loud "EEE PEE CEE!!!" ...

[quakewarsnexus]

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!

[jacobmckenna]

3:06 OMYGOSH GUYS HE CALLED IT A NUGGET

[KomradeMikhail]

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.

[angryshoebox]

Those 1 core Atom cpu's were real dogs performance wise; the Lenovo netbook I had in 2010 got to be obsolete very quick.

[SimplengKristyano]

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.❤❤❤❤❤❤

[fallingwater]

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.

[MikhaKey]

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)

[JackDaltonlocal]

Nathan, Trinity (KDE 3 based) or Debian (lxde or I3) performs fairly better than LM. You should give those a try.

[cadenchurchill]

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!

[DoctorBadvibes]

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!

[TPI_Trevor_Phillips_Industries]

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.

[Brianybug]

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.

[dlewis]

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.

[Tech-Nerdrome]

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!

[vid-make-studio]

I have an EEE PC 1000h with q4os. Works fast with some easy tasks.

[SlightlyNasty]

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.

[BaconFaceMcGee]

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.