now I'd normally say "I see you're a man of culture as well" but he's almost reached 1m subs... so dank pods isn't our "little secret" anymore 😭 glad for him tho!
@@hiki_komori6285 yeah by "our" I didn't mean Australians... I'm not even an Aussie! tho I do have cousins in Australia, I am Greek! and yeah I doubt anyone knows him in Greece either! only RU-vid and his channel analytics know for sure
@@julianstechsation never had a atom or used one but i do know that going from a core 2 duo laptop to a i5/i7 one , even if it's 1st/2nd gen is a blessing
I wonder what codec they were done with as that has a huge bearing on the size? I have terrabytes of music but as FLAC or DSD / SACD etc, with a single album being 1GB or more in size at times.
@@EgoShredder My music library is about 79 GB and it's all high bitrate mp3. 8 GB is fairly small I'd say, but understandable for such a device. 79 GB is about 8500 songs. If you just listen to a few bands or just download whatever you like without collecting the entire discography then you should be fine with the roughly 800 songs 8 GB will allow you to have. That's a generous 10mb per song. That's good for an mp3 file.
@@EremittV I have to disclose my dislike for audio compression for serious listening, but for casual stuff and podcasts then it is acceptable. However if you preference for music is in electronic genres and general popular music, then MP3 will suffice just fine. Anything that features mostly acoustic instruments and anything with a complex harmonic structure, will sound REALLY awful with compression even at the highest and best settings. Not sure how many albums I have in my collection, but it was around 2000 a few years ago last time I checked. I upgraded my NAS in 2014 and got 12TB storage to put inside it. I'm going to need to increase that fairly soon, or delete stuff whichever.
@@EgoShredder I fully understand, but for most people high bitrate mp3's will suffice. Quality of sound also depends on the headphones, amps, etc. you're using and most people simply don't have the equipment to get the most out of FLAC. I have subscribed to Deezer for FLAC listening and my personal library is mainly for my iPod. If i want to listen to flac, I want to listen to it at my desk anyway. That's where my best equipment is. My library has files starting from 2006, so I chose consistency (all MP3) over lossless.
I love this video. Going into high school in september 7th 2020 and though i already have a computer good enough for homework purposes, this video made me very happy
I recently bought one of these at a local Goodwill, and upgrading it was dirt cheap. It has 8gb RAM (yes, it will handle that much) and I installed a spare SSD, and it's running AntiX Linux very smoothly.
@@frzfab Nope, older models were 32-bit but the latest ones had a 64-bit CPU. For example, the one in the video has an Atom N450 that is 64-bit, my 10-inch Asus Eee X101H (which I still have with Lubuntu installed) is equipped with a dual core Atom N570 that is 64-bit as well.
I think this laptop would be awesome as a distraction-free typewriter machine with puppy Linux. Or as a jukebox for a collection of mp3/FLAC files, if plugged into a decent set of external speakers.
I once an idea of a distraction-free typewriter: barebones Arch (don't even install the Wi-Fi drivers or a GUI) and set nano or vim or whatever you like as the login shell (yes, I'm serious). The interface will look ugly, but is quite literally 100% distraction free.
I've got a very similar setup for my early morning crack of dawn writing sessions, and such a machine is PERFECT for productive writing. You're not going to do six ways of research at the same time, but for putting the maximum amount of words on screen quickly and efficiently...it's the way to go. No slipping over into a quick gaming session (that turns into a couple hours) when the writing momentum wanes. And good writing machines like this are always cheap! I run Mint on mine with the XFCE4 desktop...minimum CPU requirements, maximum efficiency.
Used this same laptop for a year, for watching youtube(I watched in 720p on invideous) and listening music on spotify, I had puppy linux on it, and somehow it has original good battery (that worked for like 2 hours off the charger), and I bought this laptop for only $20! Definitely would recommend it.
We have a bunch of these we took out of service at my school district. Quite interesting to see them in use, although in recent years they were downgraded to just allowing people to clock in on the web based time clock
A device like this is begging for the h264ify chrome extension for smooth playback. Nvidia ion doesn’t accelerate the codecs RU-vid defaults to today, but does smoothly play back up to 1080p h264 video, which is why it was so valuable at the time.
I had one of these in 2012 - 2016. It was ok, but when I tried to upgrade it from Windows 7 to Windows 10, it didn't work. Now I have an Acer chromebook 314.
I picked up a ul20a just before Christmas for £48 and have had a lot of fun playing with it. The physical design is very similar to this machine but it has an SU7300 dualcore processor and runs both Windows 10 and Linux Mint nicely. The SU7300 has Intel 4500 MHD graphics which are capable of running Minecraft and a number of XBox-era PC titles like Splinter Cell at reasonable frame rates. One of the big advantages over the Atom machines is being able to run 8GB dual-channel RAM and I’ve also convinced it to boot from a 4TB SSD just to see what’s possible. The wi-fi is mini-PCIE so upgradeable to modern 802.11ac cards. All in all these Asus machines are nicely built and with SSD and modern wi-fi feel a lot more responsive than they did back in the day.
My idea would be Arch with any window manager. I would skip over the desktop environment entirely to try and squeeze out as much performance as possible even if not much. For something easy but still even if barely user friendly recommend IceWM as it looks similar to Windows 9x.
I had one , the eepc 900 with celeron 630 Mhz, 1GB ddr2 , 4GB soldered + 8GB socket ssd, 8.9" 1024x600, win xp starter. The 4GB ssd dead within 2 years, xp running in the socketed 8GB ssd was much slower than traditional hdd. I use it for remote desktop to my desktop when working in factory site. Finally I gave it to family for his kid, after I had a real compact laptop.
I have a 2007 laptop and had the microprocessor swapped out for a dual core processor running at 2.1 GHz, Mint xfce, DSD, and RU-vid ran fine after that. I almost forgot: I used an Ethernet connection.
I used to own a Dell mini 9 back in 2010, at the height of netbook era. Performance is crap, but it boasted a fanless design which was quite rare back then.
I have a similar Asus Netbook and I use it whenever I feel like using Linux. I use a low resource Linux distro which really helps the performance of the netbook.
Linux Mint for sure runs faster than w7/8/10 on similar hardware but there are still some lower spec distros out there :) Puppy linux should working even better on that hw.
I think it's because they promised so much freedom. With a lightweight Linux you can pretty much accomplish that. I do mobile writing on a similar device because it's definitely distraction-free. Can't play a single one of my favorite games on it! :D
@@k.b.tidwell yeah true! The marketing was really solid haha! Absolutely. Lightweight distros are killer on older devices like that. I still want to get an 11 inch MacBook Air and get puppy Linux or MATE Mint running on it.
i used this simillar laptop from 2014-2021 when suddenly out of nowhere the hardisk failing and dead. the performance is not really for watching youtube but for office work it's good tho
I had one just before it went to discrete graphics. Asia had a few models that looked really good, ultrabooks before ultrabooks. MacBook Air pretty much had no rivals at that point
I recycled a similar netboook with dual core atom and worst heat, battery and disk problems into a battocera system, even I disconnected the keyboard because have errors and put a fan on top. Batocera runs decent and I use joysticks.
The first laptop I could call my own was an open box EEE PEE CEE 1005HAB with Windows XP, a gift from my late grandfather. Unfortunately, the board stopped working. I'd love to get another one, since that model means quite a bit to me.
The CPU is abysmal, too, so if you mean a netbook of this vintage, never mind the RAM limit. I guess it would run like crap even if you could throw more memory into it.
I have three of these ION netbooks and they are awesome but the best one has been the HP Mini 311 as its the only one that has full XP driver support. Windows XP + an SSD results in a mini power house thst dominates any old game.
I have a photo somewhere of the first Netbook I ever saw which was an ASUS Eee PC - And from memory it had 4GB of storage, was being sold at Grace Bros/Myer and was running a Linux Distro
My Eee pc had Windows 7 Starter With an Intel Atom Processor clocked at what I remember 1.8 ghz that’s all I remember and my Eee pc is smaller than the one he was working on.
And On my Eee Pc I could do up to basic games and watching videos It tends to have a very choppy frame rates Typing was kind of slow at first But eventually it’s starting to get a little faster after the 11 to 10 years of not being used does not have a antivirus installed but still worked At one point it like messed up to where it scared me But eventually in a couple minutes it got back to normal.
These netbooks were nice for there time. But these days they are old and slow. I still have an old EEE PC 900ha. 8.9", single core Intel Atom N270 / 1.6 GHz, 2gb ram & 160gb hdd running Windows XP. You know its old when it struggles to run anything higher than 360p youtube.
My school used a very similar model for a couple of years. There is actually a dual-core variant of this laptop that will accept up to 4GB of RAM. I know this because these were the ones my school had.
