Remember Netbooks? Using one in 2020.

It's 2020! I dust off an old Asus EEE PC netbook and attempt to use it for a week. It's a bit slow with the built in HDD so I upgrade it with a 250 GB SSD. Here's my experience with it.

[dlittlester]

I have an HP Mini, and doubled the ram to 2 and installed Mint. I've had it with me to England twice now, and I leave it in the hotel room and copy all my photos to it in the evening. I bought a carrying bag for it when it was new, and the bag has other compartments. Had to replace the battery a while back. Cost me about 50 bucks, but the computer is old and doesn't owe me anything.
I use my desktop running Ubuntu mostly.

[Edward_Airborne]

For a small yt channel your production value is through the roof

[dredgewalker]

My netbook is still alive and use it for emulators as a portable arcade sonce my other laptop is much bigger and harder to lug around. Upgraded the memory and it helped with the speed a bit.

[Salvage]

I use FreeOffice on my EeePC. It's much more resource-efficient than LibreOffice and can handle MS Office formats better too.

As for coding, I find Geany and Kate work best. I agree that real IDEs are out of the question. The hardware just doesn't cut it.

[larissadawe]

Thanks for a thorough insightful review.

[rollyromano]

bought a NEO netbook just like that.. same size and i've used it as a DJ laptop and been using it for more than a year now on my events.

[tdzxh]

I have a 10 year old net book called the hp mini and I used the same version of Linux.

[misterromerosenglishclassa]

I bought one of those here in mexico for less Than 50 USD it's missing some letter but it works for me so I can creat word documents

[HEHE-ombq]

Thanks bro now i can know who is the most power eee pc laptop

[MrJmmy]

best os for these is puppy linux its so good on these it runs great

[poloplantha]

Have you tried the Raspberry Pi operating system on it? I installed it on a friend's netbook and it was the best operating system for the limited resources of a netbook.

[kensarok]

i have install linux mint to this laptop after found it, i thought its really slow, , although i have upgrade storage to ssd

[amandadavies..]

I still have mine, last used around 2011 / 12. Has Windows XP on which I'd like to replace with something workable, but don't know how to.

[rustymixer]

Heavier than a smartphone. Yes...obviously it would be 😆

[lanceorventech]

Thats still usable than this Acer Aspire 1 of mine that cant even do browsing

[Youridiotparappa]

Runs better than mine my grandma give it to me it is from 2010 she got it in 2011

[Paraclete]

A netbook would make a good remote desktop client. But then again, tablets do that job much better too.

[rustymixer]

At least you can install window programs on it, it has usb has etc iPad dont have shit.

[carlosbarreto]

amazing
i have the same ASUS
I change the HDD with SDD and also use a windows 10 lite and works pretty good
i try with linux lite the experience its ok, the only problem with audio is mute even i put the max vol.
maybe you have the same experience

[linuxuser]

I run my N150 Plus with Windows 8.1 32 bit, runs great with a N450, 2GB RAM and 256gb 860 Evo SSD.