I have one of these! Got it a few years ago to run an x86 version of AmigaOS, because the dev said it was a device that had been certified to run it, but it wasn't quite as compatible as they claimed so it just ended up sitting on a shelf. Planning to repurpose it to run an AM radio station I'm going to set up for a vintage radio I bought recently, because it's low power enough that I can run it 24/7 without worrying about it being too big an impact on my electricity bill.

I have never had an issue with netbooks. I used to have an Asus EEE, I don't remember what model or anything, but it ran Windows XP. It was a bit slow (this was only like 4 years ago, so it was already outdated). I carried it to school and whatnot, it did what I needed it to do and was unobtrusive like carrying around a large laptop. It also had pretty great battery life when compared to my other laptops which are like 2005 era machines. The build quality was not the best, but I would not by any means call it terrible, and it was still better than what you see on these cursed chromebooks they make today.

Also had one of these back in the day. These actually had a little flaw with BIOS, which can cause it to be corrupt, that's how I got mine from e-waste. All it needed was a BIOS reflash from USB and starting it up with correct key combination and it was up and running again.

I have two, both Acer Aspire One models. One a D257 and the other a 722. I got the first one in 2011 and the latter in 2012 and the reason why is because my school laptop was huge. My IT school laptop was a Dell Precision M4500, very beefy, very heavy and it was excellent! I've basically used it every single day since I got it in 2010. Well some days I didn't have an IT based class and I didn't want to lug that thing around + books just for english 101 so I got the AOD257. It was perfect for the task. I kept it and dual booted XP and 7 on it since it shared components with XP Aspires. I bought the Aspire 722 for its better specifications and battery life. I upgraded both to max RAM and since they both took the same battery I had a spare since I was only going to use one at a time. Both batteries still work great. I have used both of them to play old games and local movies and such. The 722 has an HDMI port so I can load movies on it and connect it to basically any modern TV and play whatever movie format with MPC or VLC. I have used both of mine for years and they are pretty much mint, no cracks, very little scratches and scuffs, I even left the original stickers on them, Lol. I'm kind of a sucker for little things, I also have a Sony Vaio SR-27 subnotebook from 2001 running ME and a couple Toshiba Librettos. A note at the end, I've noticed that a lot of things online can break if your date settings are wrong and since you had taken the clock battery out it was likely reset to 2008.

I have two Netbooks. A Dell mini 1012 and a Dell mini 910... the mini 10 was the first computer that was mine and mine alone. Even when I replaced it with a new MacBook Pro in late 2011, I still used the Dell Mini 10 to write my thesis - it was a super useful portable knockabout writing machine/glorified hard drive for travel and only retired it in 2017. When I retired it I bought new old stock replacement keyboard, top case, display bezel and lid to make it look like new again while those parts were dirt cheap. My Dell mini 9 was outfitted with an SSD (these models were too small for a hdd) which uses the IDE interface - that is probably what that chipset is for.

Ha! I guessed completely right from the last video! What other device form factor could it have been that enjoyed a real short spark of popularity and was all but forgotten just a couple years later, than the 00s netbook! While most did run Windows XP, and the very last generations of them ran Windows 7, believe it or not, but a couple, not many, but very few did in fact run Windows Vista! Never owned one myself, but always found this adorkably tiny laptops a real odd fascination. And I definitely remember all the Cnet (remember, them?) videos all talking about them during the craze. Now all that experimentation has been replaced with boring, sterile Chromebooks, 2-in1s and smartphones. Another little detail, while Chromebooks certainly did replace the low-end netbook, ultrabooks replaced the high-end ultra-portable laptop. You know, laptops with better performance, extended battery life, and very thin and lightweight- they kind of became what netbooks wanted to be. Fun fact- Ubuntu, you know, the most popular linux distribution, their Unity desktop environment, was actually specifically designed for netbooks and other low-end laptops with small displays, thus why the window border merged with the topbar when a window was maximized, a real clever way to save vertical real estate on a real tiny display.

I have an acer aspire1 zg8. She still works like a champ

These were the Nissan Versa of laptops.

I remember the Aspire One being sold on HSN. There was one time where the guy presenting it was holding the machine by the battery and it became detached and the laptop fell onto the floor with a loud thud 😂😂 These little things had something to them where even I wanted one, and I tend to shy away from cheap electronics. If I had one today, I'd probably install Ubuntu or something on it as a tiny Linux knock-around.

Im loving this recent influx of computer videos! I've been a subscriber for 10 or more years. Long live BBISHOPPCM.

Btw there's a Synaptic driver floating around which works on most netbooks (and laptops from that era) that unlocks two finger gestures like scrolling/zoom etc. The hardware was capable but it was disabled due to licensing IIRC.

On a second note man you are on a notebook strike lately thank you very much sir

Got my Aspire one D270 Christmas 2012, it served me well as a tute around the house or on the go little machine right up to thr end of support for windows 7. Helped along by maxed out ram and a scandisk SSD. The only persistent problem I ever had with mine was the "black screen of death" every now and again. Apparently something with the BIOS would glitch and provent it from booting, basically the lights (the screen) was on but nobody was home. Fortently a forced reboot or two would slap some sense into it Acers support site still has the downloads for all the drivers and software for the aspire netbooks, so you could probably fully update it.

Still have a couple of netbooks after selling the collection, a Dell Mini 9 and the AMD C60/Radeon equipped Aspire One 522. Tricked the Dell out with dual 64gb internal MicroSD cards via a mPCIe adapter in the WWAN slot and the Acer has 4gb of ram. Weird people say the netbook disappeared when it just morphed into 11.6" laptops, then 10" Atom convertibles and eventually the Surface Go series.

I had one of these setup as a hackintosh with nacos 10.6. It also had a free memory slot to upgrade it to two gigabytes of ram

I got one of these from the RadioShack I worked for in late 2008. Exact same specs, but mine was blue. It was a horrible piece of crap, atrociously slow even on XP with the RAM upgraded to 1.5GB. But, at the time, it was the perfect travel system. Small and light enough to just throw into my suitcase or weekend bag. I eventually replaced it with a slightly larger and faster Dell netbook from 2010, and boy was I glad to retire that Acer. That switch on the front of the computer controls both the wifi and 3G (in models that included it). It was always kinda wonky on my system, I never used it. IIRC, the specific model of wifi adapter it shipped with was known to be buggy anyway. As for the IDE controller, that was used for the eMMC SSD models. The SSD was on a proprietary daughterboard that plugged into a custom IDE header on the motherboard.

Netbooks... I had a Samsung 305U1A netbook at some point, t'was nice and lightweight, I used it to take notes at school until the backlight burned out, just like that one day, it wouldn't turn on. The screen still worked (by shining a flashlight to the screen)... After that I ended up using this netbook as a standalone desktop (hooked up to an external monitor and external NIC as I had busted the internal NIC's pins), til I retired it, then pillaged parts from it (notably the hard drive, and the RAM).. And here it sits now. Now it's in pieces, waiting to be recycled, but at the same time, I'd really like to try and fix it, just for fun. I've seen my fair share of eeePCs (though I could've sworn it was written with two "e"s?) and even dismantled one (it was supposed to be a hard drive swap) but never was able to put it back together given how bad it was falling apart (pop one clip and two more will snap like a twig!).. The ones I encountered were horrible to work on.

Around 2014, we'd bought a Craig 'Netbook' that ran on Android. Barely lasted a couple years before the battery went phut as did the power supply socket. Soldered the leads of a wall wart to its internals and gave it away to the people upstairs. Think it lasted maybe another year before it got tossed. We've a couple cheap tablets - from RCA and Onn - that effectively replace whatever role we thought that Craigbook might've served (as an adjunct to our craptop). The Onn tablet works somewhat better, oddly enough. Until it died, we also had an old ZTE phone serving as a WiFi device (basically a camera for Instagramming with a side-gig as an mp3 player). A bit gutted at its death as it was the only wifi camera with a flash. Currently waiting on a 1tb SSD for our craptop - the last MacBook Pro model with a CD/DVD drive. Also bought a 32gb IDE SSD for an old Wallstreet PowerBook. Have a 128gb SSD that may or may not go to our old iBook if we ever get around to picking up a SATA to IDE adapter. Have a 4gb IDE SSD we'd hoped our PowerBook 5300c might enjoy but the finicky li'l bastische refused to even recognise it... Good thing we didn't ask if you were going to put an SSD in yours. Bad thing we didn't price 'em before buying the 32gb drive as we could've bought one for the same price ($35 + tax, but with the wait on the slow boat from China). Good thing we have a second Wallstreet (or that iBook) to tinker with - we could give our previous MacBook the SATA 128gb drive. Yay craptops!

I got in on the netbook craze with the MSI Wind U100. It was awesome, but right away I noticed the 'short' aspect ratio/resolution of 1024x600 for a lot of websites to display selections. But I did have it for a good 1.5 years (from August 2008 into Spring 2010).

If anyone for some reason wants a netbook, get a Dell Latitude 2100 series netbook. Those are actually built decently and the drivers are still available on Dell's website. A netbook (Ordi Atomic Plus made by the Estonian OEM Ordi) was actually the first computer I got brand new back in January 2010. It came with Windows 7 Starter, which for some time, actually gave me a bad taste of Windows 7 and as a result my opinions towards that OS weren't overly positive for quite a while. I mean you couldn't freakin' change the god damn wallpaper! The laptop laptop screen later died after it fell on the floor from a cupboard or table of some sorts (it was partially my fault as tripped on the charging cable). Later when I turned it on, I saw some magic smoke coming from the left hinge (it actually had cracked from the drop). We later gave it to our relative computer guy, who I assume later sold for parts as he was unable to acquire any replacement parts for it. This poor experience has left a very sour taste in my mouth and my opinion of netbooks in general was negative. I also started disliking domestically made laptops (as in Estonian laptops as that's the country I live in). Now I only use business-grade laptops, primarily from Lenovo (as I generally like their build quality and especially the keyboard's awesome. Not to mention the TrackPoint).

I have Lenovo's last Hurah of Netbooks in my opinion. A late 2013 Lenovo Helix. It's a 11 inch i5 4 GB ram and SSD tablet with a dock. Still prefer it over a bigger notebook because SSH and TeamViewer hardly require any power

i liked netbooks, an ok computer for less than 200usd i liked that, my only complaints were screen resolution and for the later models graphics chip that intentionally made it hard to run linux on them.

As of a few years ago, mobile Atoms are now defunct. they merged them into the Pentium line. I had one of these units, but the ZG5 model counts for all of them, but the ones marked as a 150 have a hard drive, which mine did. but, we paid more to get a 6-cell battery, and mine still works. the Eth is only 10/100 however. These also had Realtek HD Audio which by that point was finally getting popular. previously, it was mostly Sony that was using them a few years prior. this model was something I used as a daily. I had it all -- modded BIOS with extra functionality unlocked, an N300 card shoved in, and I was working my way up to getting an SSD shoved inside. Protip, you can get AHCI enabled with a modified BIOS, but it doesn't do it so good towards speed, it'll still cap out at like 100MB/s or so. the 945GC they shoved in these was so hobbled it's not funny. This is also why it's limited to a max of 1.5GB of RAM -- you can get 2GB working if you remove the onboard RAM chips, but that's messy. the fan was always a weak point for the system, more being there for the 945 than the Atom itself... low profile heatsinks shoved inside the plating for the cooling channel was the way to go for getting the 945 and Atom to stay cool. I remember looking at all the mods people were doing and thinking that they were so silly doing these things, and then I came to realize that they weren't joking later on when the thermal pads started degrading, as they do with age. Mine went through three screens, in fact two within a week of each other, before the third screen broke accidentally and I gave up. I was going to take this with me to college at the beginning of the last decade and it let me down, so I ended up taking a dilapadated Latitude C840 instead and looked like a complete fool doing so. Since then it's been shoved into a pink shell, not that I care about the color, but I can't bring myself to sell the thing even though I still have the box and manuals and such. and yes, the keyboards do get dirty with time, the white ones are terrible when it comes time to clean them, needing baking soda to scrub clean. the black keybaords given with the blue shell models were always better about this in part.

My middle school/High school used to have netbooks for all students. we used Samsung N150 laptops. and ran Windows 7 Starter. I remember we played minecraft on them during breaks, and during some boring classes... I used to run a Minecraft server on my laptop that i also used to keep running during breaks in my locker. Yeah my locker was warm many times. Our school didnt had AP isolation. There was also a funny moment because some of our school software didn't run on it well because it required a 1024x786 resolution or bigger, Almost all netbooks from that era used 1280x600 panels. the issue was the height, and our math class software which used Microsoft Silverlight, the software didnt scale at all, we where unable to input answers because the input box was outside the screen and you couldn't scroll. I remember the IT department made a small script that everyone had to run so it ran on a higher resolution, but it made everything horrible but we where able to do our math classes... haha. They where also not reliable, often returned to a state where Windows 7 starter wont boot anymore after a time span, it will start up and instantly throw a blue screen of death. and needed to be re-imaged to factory. you could go to the it department in the morning, and get your laptop back in the lunch break. Then I realized you could restore the factory image yourself because Samsung added a Recovery partition, so you could return to a factory image to solve the BSOD problem. I rememeber that i had a table full of laptops of classmates at school to run the built-in recovery in the morning at school. great times.

my first ever laptop thank pad t40 it had windows xp it stoped working over years ago i miss it

29:04 It's dutch :D

I have found the new version of Mypal browser for XP to work really good, it is fast and works with almost everything I have tried. The old version was good as well, but was slower and starting to get dated. the new version (which they call unstable, but I have never had an issue) is based on Firefox quantum and supports firefox addons as well.

I bought a similar machine new in 2009 I think. It was horrible. Slow as hell, running windows 7 starter. I was so glad when the hardware failed within the returns window and I got my money back. My mum had an EEEpc, it was actually OK for the most part but it developed a problem where it would kill the CMOS battery once a month. It was almost impossible to open without damaging something, and used a battery with soldered wires and a plug rather than a coin cell in a holder. I think it lasted 2, maybe 3 years. The problem with the Netbook was Windows. The hardware wasn't very powerful, but running windows on a laptop was, at the time, a necessity for most people. The typical Netbook hardware generally ran Windows badly. Problem is most of them were running windows XP in a windows 7 era, and it wouldn't be long before XP started to become unsupported. The form factor was great though.

I had an Aspire D257 back in the day, with the N450 processor, maxxed out the RAM to 2GB. However mine had the Windows 7 starter, although I wiped it and put Windows 7 Home Premium instead.

Man, I bought a netbook in 2009 right towards the end of the craze to be able to bring it to class and have a laptop that would fit on the small desks in college at the time and it worked great for that. It was a Dell Mini 10v which ultimately had its motherboard fail. I've collected a few other netbooks since then and still have a couple, one of which has a Via processor and came with Windows Vista if you can believe it! The absolute worst configuration I can think of. Nowadays I think these little netbooks make great XP laptops but probably aren't worth seeking out if one doesn't fall in your lap. They remind me a little bit of the Toshiba Libretto laptops and I often wonder if netbooks will ever get to that level of collectible due to their small size. I kinda doubt it but it's a thought, right? I've heard Shango066 mention that often the lowest quality stuff gains the largest cult following.

I still have one 😁 1gb of ram and 80GB HDD. I'm gonna clean the fan, add 512MB of RAM, check the internal battery (it is rechargeable?) and put Linux with klipper software to drive my 3D printer with Wi-Fi and input shaping feature. Wish me luck 🤞

such a coincidence was just getting a Toshiba that has similar spec up and running ..mine has the Win 7x badge on it.. with an Atom. Never had one of these before so I was stoked to find it in electronic recycling. The prior owner put WIN 10 on it and it's a death null with that OS .. tried to larger than 2G ram into it and it won't boot. Battery is working but I'm not sure yet how long it will power off just the batery. Much easier on the Toshiba to get into the machine..just a bottom slide plate - and nothing integrated.. all user servicable. maybe it can't be considered a 'netbook' then? not sure.

I did also use a asus eee pc at school too

Gebruikershandleiding is user manual in Dutch.

I definitely like a smaller laptop, I've been enjoying the newer MacBook Air I got a couple years ago. Bigger than this netbook by a little, but thinner and far better built. Definitely cost more though.

Thanks🐅🐯👍 I've this one, will plan on opening (with your video helping me) try as a hobby to upgrade RAM and SSD. What is SO DIMM spec, and max availability of this type? If I succeed, it'll become a glorified MP3 Player and other simple miscellaneous tasks☺

I never quite got these at the time being a gaming sorta fella and wanting a full sized PC. I can see the appeal of em though, however what really hampered em was the slow nature of the components and the low quality res screens and as ye say the atrocious build quality, compared to an iPad or even today's ultrabooks (if they still call em those), there's no contest. Added to that Win XP by then was quite long in the tooth and software tastes were changing over to more user friendly designs like the touch based iPhone and app driven things whether that was a good thing I still wonder but that's the way the market's went.

I had an one of those eepc but I returned it back to the store and got my money back and bought an hp laptop

Curious if this old laptop would run windows Vista or 7 if not Linux of some sort Also the Euro key also exists on the Acer Aspire 5920 laptops even the Aspire 5920 G model had it too

i still have disktop for games dont work on my Aspire A315-23 laptop

hope there was no cola in the can when you used compressed air on the motherboard,..n didnt drink it after!...anyways yea other use ppl used to use these machines for was servers,had a friend who had like 3 of em stacked on top of each other running arch linux,(since updated em to pi's) with no gui,just strait terminal.

These "Netbooks" where a pile of crap. We bought 30 for each school when they where big for the library, a few years later we had to dispose of 240 of the bloody things. They performed poorly on a domain and even off the domain, once things started to rely on web pages and windows became more power hungry, they just didn't hold against even some of the older laptops we had in our fleet. I did keep on or two and put linux on one, much better than windows