Thread 106497421

>630mhz celeron
>max 2gb of ram
>7 inch 480p screen with beautiful bezels
>small but serviceable keyboard and trackpad
Let me guess, you need more?

>>106497421 (OP)
Any vidya you can play on it besides DOS shit?

>>106497421 (OP)
i need 4k screen to watch trans porn

>>106497421 (OP)
>>630mhz
Whoah... Fucking 1997.

>>106497421 (OP)
XUE SPOTTED

i was tearing down my netbook today and had thought to turn it into a small server

it's a dell latitude 2100
n270
2gb ram ddr2 (1 stick is soldered)

my usecase is for tor i2p and vpn, the issue and concern is encryption, like this is way powerful than a raspberry pi 1 2 somewhat 3 except 3+ a/b 4 5 etc
is it feasible i dont really have any other usecase for this aside of dos os/2 warp etc etc

>>106497430
I played world of warcraft on absolute lowest settings on one of these back in 2008. It weighed like 2lbs, could hold it in one hand. I wish tablets hadn't killed the netbook trend.

>>106497439
They made sub-GHz celeries up until September 2007:
https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Celeron_M/Intel-Ultra%20low%20voltage%20Celeron%20M%20523%20LE80537VE9331M.html

Granted it's an ultra low voltage model but still

>>106497421 (OP)
not a question of more but its increasingly diff. to use it when cpu is 32bit (eeepc 900) and few linux distros offer 32bit OS and or 32bit software to install. You could still XP or Win7 but browser support is limited

Lol I played a lot of Diablo II on my Eee pc 701

>>106497430
I played HL1 and Fallout on mine, but it could run minecraft on the lowest settings and get enough frames to be playable.

>>106497421 (OP)
I have one that I use as my main laptop. It has a 1.6Ghz Atom though.

>>106497506
They still make netbooks, most of them are running atom or low end celeron cpus now.
The good thing about them is the long ass battery life compared to the average laptop.
I'm using one to run my home assistant and a bunch of docker containers because of the low power draw.

>>106498635
You can run Supermium or Newmoon on XP and have support for basically any modern webpage and regular security updates. The main issue is how much trouble that processor is going to have with all the javascript on modern sites.

>>106497506
this. it's a way better form factor. fuck the ipad.

>>106498635
The 700 has the issue of no PAE support which most 32 bit kernels use. AntiX has a no-PAE kernel and plenty of lightweight software so that's what i use

>>106498858
will give it a look. also saw this one mentioned in searches. Loc-OS seems its focus is on old hardware as well

>>106497421 (OP)
It's obsolete trash.

>>106497430
Vice city, underground 2, starcraft, half-life, even half-life 2.

>>106499170
uh you're obsolete sweaty

>>106497421 (OP)
At least it does not come with a screen with dogshit contrast. 150:1 contrast screens were a plague on subsequent netbooks. Also has a full sized sd card support.
Too bad there are no native drivers for windows 98 for retro experiments.
Mine is laying on a shelve for 15 years.

>>106497421 (OP)
>small but serviceable keyboard and trackpad

I had one and that's a bald-faced lie. The keyboards and trackpads on first-generation EEEs were nearly unusable.

I'd still be using my Eee 900 today if technology hadn't gone down the path of bloat and enshittification.

Unfortunately Firefox will drop 32-bit soon.

>>106498706

Got any recs? I was considering getting a thinkpad x13, but wanted something smaller. I saw a chuwi x minibook, but heard they're just tablets with a keyboard.

>>106497421 (OP)
i've got a dell inspiron b120. intend to replace the battery and put a custom made high voltage kill switch in the expansion port and custom config a knoppix live disc to browse the tor network. i have fun things planned for that hunk of plastic and antiquated specs.

>>106497421 (OP)
900 series had awful plastics in the chassis, the screen hinges are guaranteed to fly off

>>106500094
when do they plan on doing that? is the tor browser going to follow suit?

>>106500118
>a custom made high voltage kill switch in the expansion port
The dead battery would be enough to brick it. Have you ever used a Dell?

>>106500143
yes. i just used the laptop recently. it works fine. and yes, the battery is shot. do i need to be wary of the battery killing it?

>>106500121
good thing i don't have the 900 series then

What's a small modern(ish) laptop? usecase is vim and ssh

>>106497421 (OP)
>Let me guess, you need more?
Yes

>>106502236
The framework that should have been

these shitboxes can barely run a browser. forget about running anything better comfortably than windows 7 era software

>>106497421 (OP)
Yes i need more
7" IPS WUXGA screen quad core arm64 RK3588 CPU, 32GB RAM, m.2 2280 nvme ssd and it use free-libre Das U-Boot bootloader

>>106503269
just needs a display upgrade 11-12" screen and it would be comfy tier

>>106501609
Refurbished Chromebook. Modern. 2 to 4GB should be more than enough for your use case. They go for like $50 Amazon. Don't like Chrome OS? You can slap a lightweight Linux distro on it.

>>106497421 (OP)
Using an XP netbook for car diagnostics, second hand, the battery still holds by some dark magic

I don't really have an issue with low resolutions on old laptops but my GOD they looks so washed. The colors are beyond garbage and the contrast is non-existent

>>106502559
You can run a modern browser comfortably on 4GB of RAM. Running Chromium on Debian + LXQT. Idle RAM sits at about 800MB. Browser with about 10 tabs sits me at about 2.5GB max (even when streaming Youtube videos). Got an extra 1.5 GB to spare. Could probably trim even more fat with something like Puppy Linux.

Now, if anything springs a big memory leak you might get fucked over, but that's more of a software bug than a hardware limitation.

>>106497421 (OP)
Vista killed the net netbook.

>>106498706
yeah asus 510 is pretty comfy when you add a nvme ssd

>>106499759
Windows 98 wouldnt boot if RAM>384Mb.
They are 10 years apart.

>>106506363
Windows 98 supports up to 512MB, it gets spotty if you go any higher and often requires a patch. I have 2 systems with 98 installed, each has 1GB, one is SDR and the other is DDR2, only the DDR2 system needed the patch.

>>106497421 (OP)
I used the 901 back in the day, the N270 Atom was good enough for VNs and basic internet shit.
Really my biggest complaint was the 1024x600 display resolution, 1024x768 would have been a lot more useful and a 4:3 screen form factor would've given more room for a useful trackpad, which is the other thing that was truly shit on those things.

testing loc-os on eepc

>>106497421 (OP)
Had one in 2018 with 1gb of ram, 300gb hdd,ran bodhi linux and ran surprisingly well for anything not web related. Terrible battery life however (even after replacing the battery) and the integrated GPU eventually died.
>>106497506
>>106498706
>I wish tablets hadn't killed the netbook trend.
There's a few around but everything is soldiered down/glued together, picrel is the closest thing to a modern netbook (and has really great battery life). Shame it only has 32 GB of storage and is built like shit.
>>106503269
Tbqh going full cyberdeck will probably be the only way to have mobile devices that don't suck.

>>106497506
this right here. still have my zg5 with lmde. great for small tasks and emulation.

sony vaio p was a game changer

>>106497421 (OP)
I have one of these little guys and it's easily my favorite computer. Right now I have NetBSD running on it (I wanted OpenBSD but the wi-fi driver is GPL'd and nobody cares 15 years later) but before I was running Void Linux.
The main issue I have with it is that I can't post here! Fucking Cloudflare's fucking stupid proof of work turnstile shits itself on anything below, like, 1.5 ghz. (I know because I've had this problem with Arm SBCs too.) Still runs a compiler and Emacs fine though, and you can even watch Youtube with yt-dl and mpv.

>>106507900
I'm able to post on a 1.2ghz pentium m by minimizing the browser window while the cloudflare check is running. I wait several seconds and then it passes when I pull the window back up.

>>106498709
tried Supermium worked for the most part
Captcha worked but I noticed (not sure if its a just me issue) the second I interacted with Bookmark bar, the ablilty to scroll would break.

closing and re-opening will fix scroll until you interact with Bookmark bar again

>>106497506
nice

>>106497421 (OP)
I didn't and would've happily bought another but now every fucking manufacturer acts like I want a borjillion inch screen to watch blurry yt vids on

>>106497430
>besides DOS shit
Let me guess, you need more?

>>106497462
too old for much fun, if you got a topton n100 off aliexpress for cheap you could do way more

>>106497430
I remember I used to play early Minecraft on it.
Newer updates made it run like shit. Current Mince would be impossible.
I also played Dorf Fort on it. I liked playing 1x1 worlds, highly recommend if you want a simpler playthrough instead of doing monolithic worlds and forts.
Samsung NC10 specifically.

>>106498706
kek, if only my netbook was the same.
I accidentally left my netbook in, and powered on, over 7 months without realizing.
Running the ol WinXP, I am surprised the piece of shit was still functional.
I never noticed because the lid was down, must have put it down and forgot.

I wanted to take it on holiday with me to do some programming and light gaming.
At least, I had hoped to until I did a test to see how long the battery would last as I specifically wanted to use it to run a shared internet connection for the car to use.
Yeah... yeah that wasn't happening.
I missed the netbook shutting down the first time while watching some stuff.
>the fuck, it hasn't been that long already has it??
Plug it in, start over, it happens again. I quickly realize there's something seriously wrong.
Plug it in again, charge up, this time I actively watch it after unplugging.
The charge was dropping from mid 70% down to single digits in the space of a minute.
I immediately unplugged it in case shit blew the fuck up.
I spent the next few hours setting up a Raspberry Pi to remote connect to from a tablet and host an AP, and be hardened against changing networks fucking with configs.
I finished at 3am when I was travelling at 6am. I just stayed the fuck up.

>>106497439
>1997
More like 1999, in 1997 233 mhz was the top one at the end of the year.

>>106497421 (OP)
For me, it's the Asus 701.

>>106509657
Yes, very much so, you retard.

>>106510672
No you don't, you want it, big difference.
You like the idea of it being new and shiny.

>>106510680
>aschulllllly
kill yourself, you clown
you don't need the nostalgia garbage you posted either

>>106510687
You're right, which is why I replaced by bedroom with a computer from the 70s.
You sound like an iPhone user.

>>106510749
You don't need a computer at all. Throw it away. You also don't need a bedroom. Get rid of it too.
You thought you were smart latching onto a word, but it toned out like your father always said it does with you.

One of my greatest tech regrets is not picking up that last Eee-701 i found in a bargain bin of the local tech store as they were selling off the last of them.
I got my hands on a 901 though, and still have it, as well as a shitty Acer Aspire one with a Atom N450 that still somehow gets 2 hours of battery life.
Second biggest regret is never getting my hands on any of the small AMD E-450 or C-60/C-70 based netbooks.

Netbooks filled a niche at a specific point in time in the late 00's.
Beyond that they are shit

>>106497430
Retarded loser manchild mentality injecting video game crap into everything. kys

>>106510820
>being this mad about being bad at games

>>106499197
>underground 2
>even half-life 2.
at 5fps, sure.

>>106510815
That's like saying Phones are useless because Tablets exist.
Yeah you can't get as much done as you could with a larger screen, but you can still do a fair amount of useful stuff on both Phones and Netbooks.
The issue is not the form factor, it is the cheap-ass hardware they supply with them.
For the same reason that garbage Chromebooks, phones and tablets exist - netbooks can and should still exist as a useful form factor.
The race for thin-shit by those Mactard fucks ruined entire industries, yanking out every feature they can get their greedy fucking hands on to steal another few millimeters off the width.
I'd never go near any portable now if I could avoid it. Even my recent tablet purchase was for art and I hated buying it because I was intent on making my own but another tablet dying forced my hand.

>>106504700
based

>>106497430
I used to play minecraft on my piddly little atom netbook

>>106497430
They are okay for emulating consoles up to 16bit. They may even run some early N64/PSX games at acceptable speed, depending on your choice of OS and emulator.

>>106497421 (OP)
I see XFCE i said based.
Who thinks otherwise is a RUST troon.

>>106497433
Goodlad

>>106497421 (OP)
I have a 1015b that I remember has always had thermal problems, even when new, and now I can't keep it on for more than like a minute or two while booting an OS or in the BIOS settings, and even when I somehow manage to boot into an OS without it shutting itself down, it always idles at about 70-80C
What's strange is that I already repasted this thing several times, yet the problem still persists
A shame, since I wouldn't mind making this thing into an XP machine or even run lightweight Linux on it

>>106511657
I program in Rust on Xfce. What now?

>>106512111
Bad thermal design. Running an ssd instead of an hdd might help a bit, then again maybe not.

I am fine with a slow laptop, but I need a decent screen. at least 1080p.

>>106512111
Maybe the fan or heat radiator is dusty. try cleaning it

Richard Stallman worked with these things for a number of years - so could you. I know I could.

Granted he was only using Emacs but I blame the absolute pajeet state of the Internet that didn't give room for low-powered devices.

>>106514769
I've tried cleaning out the radiator & fan out a couple times, that didn't seem to fix it
The only thing that I think could be the problem is a thermal pad that goes between the heatsink & a chip on the motherboard being a bit loose, but then again it covers the GPU, not the CPU, so I'm not too sure if that is the problem or not
>>106513466
I don't have any hard drive in the thing right now, so I could try running something off my USB drive and seeing if thermals are gonna be any better, but then again the cooler on this thing's dinky as it is, so I'm not too sure