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Did you have a netbook?
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I had an msi wind. It was one of the bigger later netbooks, with a 10" screen and it ran windows XP. I bought it the night Obama won the 08 election
Mine was great for browsing the internet and I think I played a bit of fallout. It was a decent second pc until 2013.
Mine was great for browsing the internet and I think I played a bit of fallout. It was a decent second pc until 2013.
Yes, and it was almost perfect for young children, which is who I bought it for. A Dell Inspiron Mini 9 with Ubuntu on the Atom build.
It was a Samsung N110 - most definitely not a paperweight, the damn thing weighed three times as much as my current laptop.
So last month I actually found it, and restored Windows XP to it after installing Windows Vista back in the day onto it.
I'm going to keep it to show people in 20 years the wonders of Windows XP.
I also paid $39 for 2GB RAM over its default 1GB.
So last month I actually found it, and restored Windows XP to it after installing Windows Vista back in the day onto it.
I'm going to keep it to show people in 20 years the wonders of Windows XP.
I also paid $39 for 2GB RAM over its default 1GB.
I had one of those HP jumpoffs and as a broke high schooler transitioning into college, it was honestly a big help
My high school gave us one (Dell with an Atom single core and 2GB of RAM), and holy fuck it was so bad, like could not play HD YouTube videos smoothly bad. Minecraft ran at 2 frames a second. That thing was horrendous technically speaking, but I have a lot of fond memories with it since it was my first computer that was "mine" and it got me through all 4 years of high school.
I found it:
I found it:
Yeah. It wasn't great but I was traveling constantly for work and it was super easy to bring along
Nope. My laptop at the height of netbook notoriety was a piece of shit chonker HP laptop.
I would've at least preferred a netbook — I would've preferred to be limited to just a poor computing experience and not a poor computing AND commuting experience.
I would've at least preferred a netbook — I would've preferred to be limited to just a poor computing experience and not a poor computing AND commuting experience.
Yeah, coming from a large and very heavy laptop that used in community college, I got an Asus EeePad. I thought it would have been a decent, lightweight, and very affordable laptop for college. It was mostly a waste since I had to replace it fairly quickly for a bigger screen and higher specs.
Used an Asus one for most of college. Was slow, but very handy overall. And its wireless capabilities were really good; back when OnLive was a thing, I got a lot of double-takes from people who saw me playing stuff like Borderlands and Deus Ex Human Revolution on it :P
I worked Best Buy when they things came out in 2009ish and once you get over the novelty of the small form factor back then, holy crap where they bad!
Just slow horrendous performance from every single brand I had to set up. @_@
We kept having customer complained how slow they were and to somehow make it faster, and I'm like...it's a netbook!
Just slow horrendous performance from every single brand I had to set up. @_@
We kept having customer complained how slow they were and to somehow make it faster, and I'm like...it's a netbook!
What a nostalgia bomb. I had an MSI Wind, then got an HP Mini 1000 because the keyboard was way better.
I got an ASUS Eee PC in 2009 when netbooks were a fad. It served its purpose of being a computer I could easily bring around with me in college. It's still in a drawer somewhere.
That said, if I could go back in time, I would not have built a gaming desktop to bring with me to college. It kept overheating and had other tech issues. I would have instead bought a regular laptop for schoolwork and browsing. I ended up buying an Xbox 360 on the first Black Friday after I started college and played that way more than I did my gaming PC. With a laptop instead of a desktop, I would have not needed the netbook.
That said, if I could go back in time, I would not have built a gaming desktop to bring with me to college. It kept overheating and had other tech issues. I would have instead bought a regular laptop for schoolwork and browsing. I ended up buying an Xbox 360 on the first Black Friday after I started college and played that way more than I did my gaming PC. With a laptop instead of a desktop, I would have not needed the netbook.
Bygone era of the years 2009 through 2011. Underpowered, tiny, before chromebooks. Did you own one of these paperweights?
I had this exact little Acer, and while cute, it was mostly unusable. I got it for a tremendous discount from the Radioshack I worked at at the time. Ended up using it for college for maybe one semester before upgrading to an actual laptop. I gave it to a friend who went on to use it for years though, so: good shit, little Acer!
Yes, and unlike most people I really liked my Lenovo Netbook. I loved the portability and used it for work, homework and word processing. I upgraded the RAM and installed a SSD in it too (mine had a slot for 2.5 HDs). I still think its some of the best money I ever spent.
no, but man that branding brings back feelings.
I had an Acer Notebook, which was a step up from the Netbook shit sandwich. It genuinely wasn't a bad computer, blew my mind with a long battery life at the time which was pretty damn rare, and I liked that computer for the most part. Then I got a MacBook Air, the first Mac I properly owned (after having a few at work), and ... that fucking computer is still used in this house 12 years later.
I got the computer in like 2009 and it was a good computer, then in 2011 or 2012 I got a MacBook Air and it was just such a step up for honestly not that much more money.
I probably wrote my first posts on Neogaf from that Acer notebook.
I had an Acer Notebook, which was a step up from the Netbook shit sandwich. It genuinely wasn't a bad computer, blew my mind with a long battery life at the time which was pretty damn rare, and I liked that computer for the most part. Then I got a MacBook Air, the first Mac I properly owned (after having a few at work), and ... that fucking computer is still used in this house 12 years later.
I got the computer in like 2009 and it was a good computer, then in 2011 or 2012 I got a MacBook Air and it was just such a step up for honestly not that much more money.
I probably wrote my first posts on Neogaf from that Acer notebook.
Had an eeepc. It was slow but it could do the few things I wanted and lasted quite a while on battery. Obviously netbooks were bad in a lot of ways but it complemented my desktop pc well for a couple of years at a nice price.
No, they were crap. As Paul Thurott stated, they almost single handedly killed the PC industry. Really low margins, but really low performance. They are the kind of thing that drives someone to buy a Mac, then they talk about how much better the experience is when they bought a $2k Mac vs a $300 netbook.
Yep - had an MSI Wind that I put Hacktinosh on.
Ran great honestly once I upped the RAM but I sold it since I missed having an actual Macbook Pro.
Ran great honestly once I upped the RAM but I sold it since I missed having an actual Macbook Pro.
I had an Asus EeePC. Still have it around here somewhere.
Even at its best it was too slow to even play a YouTube video, and the keyboard was too tiny for me to type on.
It's pretty much useless now. The storage degraded to the point that it took ages to boot, even with a fresh Windows install.
Even at its best it was too slow to even play a YouTube video, and the keyboard was too tiny for me to type on.
It's pretty much useless now. The storage degraded to the point that it took ages to boot, even with a fresh Windows install.
Yes, family got it as an offer for signing up for an internet plan. We used it for a week before it just sat collecting dust. Windows 7 Starter with only 1 GB of RAM. Tried installing Linux on it a few years later, it was better but still horrible; I still have it in storage.
Yes, I had a Samsung NC10 and I loved it. The keyboard was close enough to full size for comfortable touch typing and it was powerful enough to do what I wanted it for: browsing the internet, shell access, playing MP3s, and reading manga. I got a ton of use out of it until I wound up with a hand-me-down iPad, but until then I used that lil' laptop on a daily basis.
My experience is literally this since I was working at Best Buy at the time. The things sucked.
With ARM being what it is now, modern versions would probably be less trash if they used Android.
Another Best Buy alum from that era chiming in. I worked in the warehouse but we were expected to greet customers when we were on the floor during truck nights. I would usually end up in the computers department during truck nights stocking the computer inventory and I was pretty knowledgeable with computers so I'd answer some basic questions if customers asked me. I steered so many people away from netbooks. It's probably why I never got moved to the sales floor. I wasn't about to tell people lies to get a sale. I'd just be straight up honest with them. Same thing happened in the gaming department. I had a few people ask me if a game was good and I'd be like "oh no, don't buy that, it's awful."
So many great Best Buy memories, which 95% of them are just getting incredibly drunk with your co-workers after work.
