Re:$149 Chromebooks
by marssaxman on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @05:22PM
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Never understood why "netbook" became a bad word. I loved mine; it was sturdy and simple and cheap and I never worried about throwing it in a bag and taking it wherever I was going. My mindset was "so what if it gets trashed, it only cost $250, I'll buy another one!" - but in fact my one netbook lasted five years, and by then the category had disappeared. That one Eee pc outlasted two macbooks!
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I think part of it was that there were so many horribly specced Windows devices sold. As in, the specs were not good enough to handle the OS. 2GB, a single core first gen Atom, and a 5200RPM drive is painful to use even Windows 7 on.
Had one of those machines for work. Even after a fresh install, the lag was positively infuriating.
Re:$149 Chromebooks
by marssaxman on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @06:03PM
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Ah, that makes sense. My Eee came with an SSD, and I installed Linux the day it arrived. I can see how it would have been a different experience with Windows and old-school hard drives.
Re:$149 Chromebooks
by akhilcacharya on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @10:44PM
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It honestly wasn't awful. I used an MSI Wind U100 for several years - I actually used it for school until June last year. I gradually transitioned OS's - WinXP, OSX, then Ubuntu 11.04. Ran all of them like a champ, video playback was the only sticking point.