Hey /g/, what are some cute little laptops that you can buy for

Yup sure are, useless products for useless individuals.

thinkpad x series

>>59752858
B-But my x220t is so much fun to use anon.

>>59752819
is that yours, or did you just find the photo somewhere?

I think you can buy acer cloudbooks on ebay for pretty cheap at the moment, but I'm not sure if that's changed since I last checked.

>>59752888
I just found it online, I want to get one though just because of how small and bulky for its size it is. Real netbooks have curves.

>>59752888
>>59752908
Might be hard to find because they are consumershit hardware and have all died by now.

business

>OH GOD NO IM TOO SPECIAL

class

>IM BETTER THAN U FUK U

Ultraportable

>*CLICK* *CLICK* *CLICK* IT WON'T FIRE

(from any manufacturer)

>'TISM 'TISM 'TISM 'TISM 'TISM

>>59752951
What?

>>59752951
what the fuck is this post

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Asus EEE PC series
Acer Aspire One series
MSI Wind series
Lenovo IdeaPad series

Also this is pretty much the best there is, but I don't know if 11.6 is too big for your purposes

>>59753048
I wanna shoot for 7" screen size range.

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It looks like the X60s is the smallest Thinkpad you can get unless you track down one of those ancient PC110 units

It's got a smaller footprint than the newer widescreen X series

>>59753156
nope nope nope not special and unique enough I need a shitty old consumer laptop from 2003 that breaks all the time - just like me. Now then let me just hit this button. I wonder what it does. Oh it activates the

"Nothing Shit autism tornado storm"

>FUCKING laptop thrown over mach 3.5 upsold to hipsters at quarter light speed
>Re-tism tism tism (tism tism tism)
>Introducing
>(Silence)
>Nothing nothing nothing version nothing point "im beddur than u!!!!!!"

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>>59753155
Oh. Assuming you don't want the GPD meme, your options are either the very first edition EEE PC or a 90s design like a Toshiba Libretto

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>>59753238
>>59752951

>>59753403
UMPC shits are all the same special snowflake type of faggot who won't even look at the products out there and just says "oh I need a special laptop made once just for me nothing less is going to work"

It's similar to people who go to car dealerships with no intention to buy except to make the salesman jump through hoops.

Inevitably the "great need" they end up doing with it as OP mentioned is just butt diddling their already worthless time away.

In your pic inside the suitcase is a normal sized laptop and the reeee-shit is in fact the UMPC loser

>>59753238
You need to get out more

>>59752819
acer c720
jumper ezbook

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eee 901
debian stable + backports
fluxbox
chromium

It struggles browsing but it's not totally impossible.

>>59752819
>watch Chinese cartoons on!
kek, good luck with that, they're slow as all shit, and have zero graphics accelleration
they're about as quick as an early 2000's smartphone

>>59753642
does it perform better than the eee 900?

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>>59753896
>>59753642
>>59753855
What did I say?

>oh I want this specific old piece of shit
>BUT it has to be modern BUT it has to be old BUT it has to be new
>make it just for me

umpc shits are the car salesman circus hoop jumper but technology version. I'd say get pic related with a modern smartphone (because you can dual boot linux) but you're going to say no to that too. Only way it would work is to do this but to attach a little megaphone to it that randomly screams "I AM BETTER THAN U!!!!!!!"

>>59753959
What's it like living with autism, anon?

>>59753959
I'm >>59753896 and I was asking out of curiosity, because I already have an eee 900 (which I bought back in 08 when they were new) and I wondered how much of a difference the atom processor made vs the celeron M

>>59754016
the laptop you're looking for doesn't exist. If you want to repeat the thread going up and down between needs you don't even have, that's fine. For everyone else, just be warned of UMPC shits. This has nothing to do with technology, it's just snowflakism

>>59753245
That is kawaii as fuck

>>59753245
Oh HELL yeah

>>59752951
I shitpost ironically on /x/ and that post makes me cringe harder than anything I've ever written before.

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>>59754039
Octane benchmark for the 901 with chromium 57 is 2602. My q6600 gets 14k.
I also have a netbook with 2gig and a n570 dual core atom: noticeable smoother but still way slow of course.

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>>59752819
I've got one of those, runs Windows Embedded Compact 7 and has a ~600MHz VIA ARM CPU

>>59752819
Ah Jesus, those Slyvanias are the dog's bollox for your obsession with their Windows CE.
Anyway, how about those Asus EEE?

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>>59752819
What about those Chinese android netbooks that always get thrown around ebay and amazon? They are the ultimate machine to watch animu on.

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>>59755307
Trash, unusable, waste of money.
And I find atom netbooks still tolerable.

>>59755307
>probably a 6 year old version of Android with Chinese botnet apps that's unrootable
No thanks.

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What about pads strictly for offline use like typing oriented things? Does that widen the range?

>tfw no kawaii netbook to type up your thoughts and writings in a park.

>>59755489
The point of them is that you can install some stock android version with the use of an SD card.

>>59755307
They look cool. But totally not worth it for £50. Look around on ebay and you'll find stuff like the Acer cloudbook 14 going for £90, not considerably much more expensive and far more useful.

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>>59755502
It's pretty expensive though, if I were you I'd just pick up something like an eMate 300

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>>59755529
Not without a bootloader unlock, shit for brains.

>>59755529
I have a wm8880-based android netbook. I do not think there is a way to do what you say. At least, I have never been able to find one.

I run Fedora 24 on my Atom surface 3 non pro. It's comfy and there's finally a build that has no hardware issues

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CF-M34 is cute but those are very old now

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>>59755665

>>59755450
you have a good taste anon
captcha: cars

Used elitebooks are dirt cheap now in the Netherlands. I think the smallest are 11 or 12".

>>59752951
>>59753238
>>59753959

your autism is drawing unfavorable attention to yourself anon

sit down and take some deep breaths

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>>59755718
So go for an eMate 300

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comfy to the max


good luck finding one that is worth the price

>>59753642
>It struggles browsing
This pisses me off really.

Most webpages have objectively less actual content than 10 years ago, but the css and the java-script bloat has become such that even i5s are starting to struggle.

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I might buy something like this. What do you guys think?

>>59755841
Not too bad. I would try to find one alittle cheaper though.

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>>59755841
i own that, its ass

comfy? sure
light web browsing is a pain sometimes, watching videos is almost impossible

i bought one of those broadcom crystal HD decoder chips or whatever, couldn't get it to work

ended up putting cloudready on it, running h.264ify, and barely using it.

>>59755841
>>59755923
Still, better deal than a raspi.

>>59755914
Eh, 40 dolans is less than the stupid thing here >>59755307 and returns are accepted.

>>59755923
I just want it to do light programming and shitpost here and 8ch.

>>59755981
True. I can install Windows XP on it for maximum comfy.

>>59753048
>MSI Wind series
This. Mine's been running for years now. It's perfect for a small home server.

>>59755804
The worst part is when you find old articles that are still hosted and see how literate and plain they are. Granted this was probably due to them being intended for print (notice how newspaper fonts are getting larger to cover for less content?) but still the show of intent was there, that they were writing an articles of news, often based on a very complex subject. No annoying TL;DR side inserts (those piss me right off!), no giant images, no scripts to block that are still prepared for by the browser so it will take huge amounts of RAM anyway even though most of its "capabilities" are going totally unused at that moment...

It's a shit show.

>>59752819
Finally I have found a kindred sprit to share my love for shitty useless netbooks with

>>59753155
That's a phablet

>>59756164
The problem:
http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

The solution:
http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

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>>59752819
unless you have expirence with arm'd tux, i suggest you avoid those. also 12M of vram, you wont be watching shit on it.

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>>59755350
>butterfly keyboard
:^)

>>59755786
Don't they generally go for ~$300? I'd say that's worth it

>>59755841
You just got yourself a brand new paper weight.
Enjoy

>>59756311
Nah, an Atom N270 is plenty usable. Hell I've got a computer with a shittier processor that I use daily.

>>59756322

but why would you use it if you don't have to.

this thread is dumb

>>59756322
the most absurd part is that a dell e6400 goes for around the same cost on ebay

>>59756351
Netbooks are nice

>>59756393

like how VHS was nice?

>>59756432
No, like how having a 10" laptop is nice.

>>59756432
Exactly just like that.

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>>59756322
>Atom N270
>released 2008
>usable
Yeah, sure.

>shittier processor that I use daily.
As a paperweight I assume?

This was a mistake for my aged guy to buy such old computer. I mean this 8Mhz 16-bit prosessor sure is different to the computers I have grown to use. That is why I hate the modern times, when even phones have a fuckton on power, but they are mainly used for... shit and shit, not productivity.
>>59756351
It's great way to gain more stress and fill your empty spot on your heart. Those slow processors are great way to gain patience.
>>59756383
Couldn't agree more. You can get a lot out of a that laptop. Like dayumn.
>>59756393
Whatever pal, keep doing what you enjoy the most.
>>59756432
Don't even remind me of those.

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>>59753238
nigga why?

>>59756471
>Yeah, sure.
It is. Just because you can't play modern AAA games doesn't make it useless.
>As a paperweight I assume?
No, for browsing the web, SSH, and some old games.
>Whatever pal, keep doing what you enjoy the most.
Will do.

>>59755923
shit for brains
>>59756006
get one then. I have a 2120 running Xfce and Google Chrome on 2GB

Bytespeed NL3. I bough a bulk lot of used ones for $30ish each. I kept one for myself and sold the rest on craigslist.

>>59756164
>>59756258
Oh boy it's some website psuedo politics by shitstains who've never published a single tag because their gay preschool toy laptop is too out of date to render jquery.

Next stop: "you must remove all software past 1995 because I'm a fucking hipster"-tier BSD circlejerk shit

>>59752819
>those buttons next to the pad.

Fucking awful.

>>59752819
>watch Chinese cartoons
>on a 400MHz ARM or MIPS
wut

>>59756534
Not an argument.

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>>59756534
What the fuck is a tag and why is your website so slow?

>>59756564
It's not as bad to use as it looks. Keyboard's way too small though, best way to type is holding it in your hands and typing with your thumbs

>>59756471
>implying stuff released in 2008 isn't usable today
The oldest Atoms are kinda shit but there's a lot they can still do. Text-based tasks, music playback, some basic web browsing (assuming you don't want to be able to browse the worst of the heaviest sites) and whatnot. Things I can do on a 2009 phone as well as on a 2008 laptop

>>59756603
>>59756605
You cannot disregard 15 years of web progress as not an argument, your smelly IRC circlejerk is not a web authority. For good reason since you are neo-luddites. Thankfully responsible people are the ones running the internet in terms of what technologies take off, generally due to what is feasible based on 10 YEAR OLD HARDWARE.

Website is slow because it has this thing called "javascript". We just added 10KB to the page size. Better just look at that size, there isn't any other reason for it, smaller is just always better. Oh no, something on the page needs updating. Better refresh the entire thing and resend the 100KB page. Works out in vocal-IRC-turd-math because 200KB is less than 110KB.

This neo-luddite shit is similar to programming dropouts insisting they're better programmers for not using a framework because they have more "pure i/o speed" in their shit hello world. Just like you with your gay web 1.0, both parties never progressed mentally past this point, which is how we get this "we should chop out javascript and web frameworks because I'm a piece of shit"

>>59756702
>(assuming you don't want to be able to browse the worst of the heaviest sites)

Which you shouldn't anyway.

>>59756707
>You cannot disregard 15 years of web progress as not an argument
Uh, not like every progress is a good progress. Take the news for example, hopefully the way they're becoming with this internet thing isn't going to be forever.

This is about aesthetics and content after all, at least as much as about technology. Trends come and go.

I think the big "problem" is this:
>the main content of most sites is still text and images with some video or audio thrown in
>yet because we can, we're adding thousands of bells and whistles and ads and so on without adding to the content

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>>59756707
>You cannot disregard 15 years of web progress as not an argument
Prove that progress is good. Progress isn't inherently beneficial. You haven't shown a single defence of the state of the modern web.

>Thankfully responsible people are the ones running the internet in terms of what technologies take off
[citation needed]

>generally due to what is feasible based on 10 YEAR OLD HARDWARE.
Even modern machines get their fans whirring on modern sites.

>We just added 10KB to the page size
Never that small and you know it. Plus not all pages that have this require it, nor even any JS at all. The JS on Wikipedia alone is larger than all of the other content, including the images.

>more insults rather than arguments

Tell me, would you defend a car that is slower, but to attain the same speed as an older car requires an engine twice the size, and needing three-times more fuel, because it doesn't need oil changes as often or some other bullshit "progressive" concept you defend?

I see you all the time getting mad that people have some sort of standard for their software, which makes sense for a tech board. You don't see music forums defending Brokencyde.

>>59756702
this doesn't really count because even earlier in 2006 there was a C2D, atom was underpowered even at the time. you are entering toxic bsd territory by just pretending that sites can be a "worst" or "heaviest". This is like the cartoon question "Why is everyone going the wrong way!" When it's actually you being a shitty hippie.

I would say shitty poor hippie, but a quick search showed that your gay netbooks have inflated price thanks to UMPC shits like you. You can still easily get a C2D X series thinkpad for less than $20 versus the cheapest models in this thread are $80 which won't last 2 years. This has nothing to do at all with cost, all of this is just wanting far too much to pretend to be better than "normies" for using a smartphone or anything modern

>>59756717

yeah, go buy something that is already unanimously shit and try to feel good about it

>>59755502
>>59755549
AlphaSmarts exist. They are simple as fuck and dont require anything more than a cable to offload their stored text. It just acts as a keyboard and types it in (at least the 3000 i used did, i dont know of the Palm OS based ones are any different.)
Kind of thinking about getting one to store copypastas on now.

>>59756015
I loved mine, perfect seedbox, fan sadly inhaled some iron filings one day - not pretty

>>59756850
>>59756833
No matter how much you cry about it, the web moved on - with or without you. Buying a shitty underpowered hippie netbook will not help. Buying a shitty underpowered hippie netbook just because it can't do anything fast which falsely makes you think that you get to live in the past will not help. Only visiting "proper" websites on your shitty hippiebook will not help.

This is very similar to being a vocal vegetarian, going to some fast food place, ordering something you know to have meat on purpose, and then holding up the line by giving it right back and saying that you're vegetarian. Even if they throw it out, this doesn't bring the animal back to life. Buying some shitty laptop to prevent yourself from experiencing websites will not bring the old web back.

I'm glad we were able to boil down the real reason why we're here. Either way you must know you're quite literally one step away from BSD shits saying "Who needs that?" in response to web browsers because their 1998 shitware boils over trying to use it. stick to IRC, it's lighter weight

>>59756996
>stick to IRC, it's lighter weight
well yeah IRC is one of the top reasons to use cheap shitbooks

IRC is a pain to use on androids and iPads but it'll be fun on any 7" eeepc or whatever

>>59756833

The quality has gone down dramatically, here's a single example that sets the tone rather than provides any specific scientific proof, but you'd be hard pressed to argue that it's not the case across the board. Let's take one site for example, the New York Times (simply because I was reading an old article on there earlier):
>ARMS CONTRACTORS SPEND TO PROMOTE AN EXPANDED NATO (1998, nearly the same day) - 3 pages
>Turkey’s Wars: Quelling Kurdish Uprisings, and Suffering From Terror Attacks = just over 1 and a half

Now, that might not seem like such a huge difference, but compare the two pages themselves and how they're told, and you'll see a massive decline in quality across the board. It is literally indefensible.

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/30/world/arms-contractors-spend-to-promote-an-expanded-nato.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/31/world/europe/turkey-kurds-crackdown-terrorism.html

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>>59756996
Still not an argument. Why should someone need something 10x as powerful to do exactly the same thing as they were doing with "lesser" hardware? In the end the only people who benefit are hardware manufacturers and why should we let them dictate what is and isn't a worthwhile device, since they'll always want it to be what you don't have but must buy from them now.

Tell me this: would you defend this for any other technology? There's calls for lower consumption when it comes to lighting our homes and driving our cars, why would you not also want a lower power consumption for computers and web servers, bearing in mind that approximately 20% of the world's power goes to the web (which means first worlders' web since the developing world can't afford neither the devices nor the servers to access nor host this kind of content).

>>59756707
Not an argument

>>59755223
How is it for video playback?

>>59757373
Never tried

Why not just buy a tablet and use it with one of those cases with keyboards on them?
It's pretty comfy, I just wish I could run a on it instead of running some cli lightweight distro on top of Android.

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>>59756707
>Website is slow because it has this thing called "javascript". We just added 10KB to the page size. Better just look at that size, there isn't any other reason for it, smaller is just always better. Oh no, something on the page needs updating. Better refresh the entire thing and resend the 100KB page. Works out in vocal-IRC-turd-math because 200KB is less than 110KB.
All lies. Modern websites use 500KB of javascript, another 500KB of css, and never refresh anything. It's all one use and takes 10-15 seconds to render on an i5 for perhaps 50KB of actual text content. Youtube videos load faster than a lot of modern webpages.

> This neo-luddite shit
Why am I a luddite for disliking slow websites?
What makes pic-related ok? Literally over 1MB of css code for less than 50KB of html content?

Do I complain about modern software, tools, and developments which actually work and deliver objective improvements? No. So why am I a luddite for pointing out that developments in Web design, frontends, backends, and technologies have failed to deliver outcomes which justify their ballooning costs in bandwidth, RAM use, and especially CPU cycles and user time?

Why is your website so fucking slow?

>>59756993
My fan started whining hard a year ago, I disassembled it, cleaned it a bit and lubed it with olive oil. It's so silent now.
I also let it run fanless for a while but it was in a pretty cold basement.

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>>59756996
None of this justifies why an i7 needs 10 seconds to render your webpage.

Here's another beautiful example. Google itself. I remember when this same page, with the exact same functionality, prided itself at coming in at less than 50KB or some shit. Admittedly it's still fairly fast, but what the fuck is all this shit doing?

This still matters. It REALLY matters on mobile devices. You have no idea how pissed off network operators and end users are about massive webpages.

Why is your website so bloated? Tell me, why? Which toolsets are causing this problem, because I know you're not writing all this yourself?

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>>59752951
>>59753238

>>59758051
Mine's dead as David Bowie anon, the iron filings blew the entire motherboard

>>59757401
Well try it you silly and tell me how it goes.

>>59758418
Too much work

>>59757373
get a phone for that, or a tablet.

>>59758054
Mines only 60KB

>>59752819
I bought the first asus eee netbook off a buddy for $100 a few years ago.
Thing was a piece of shit but it was fun to fuck with gnu/linux on it and play ultima vii, pretty much all I used it for

>>59758487

How? Even with js disabled the size is 208 KB.

>>59752819
I threw out a netbook with an N270 and XP. It was shit.

>>59757225
Bitch please, 90% of fagbook and jewtube content consumers and shitposters are pajeets and chinks.

>>59758615
>XP
Found your problem.

>>59757060
>>59758054
you don't need an i7 it's been said many times you can easily still get away with a C2D you won't listen because this has nothing to do with "websites" and everything to do with snowflakism. just stick to IRC nobody gives a shit about you even the other IRC channel users. UMPC fags are always special snowflakes.

>>59758833
This
normies wanting muhh XP on netbooks was what killed them

>>59758915
Wasn't Asus shipping eeePCs with bloated Ubuntus installs?

>>59758915
what normies? there was no decent software for arm and linux in 2007

>>59752951
Whatareya?

>>59759001
Oh sweet child of summer

>>59759001
Linux had web browsers in 2007 and that's basically a NETbook's intended purpose.

>>59759014
image manipulation? none
office suite fully compatible with microshit formats? none
skype, aol, fagbook, icq and other proprietary messengers?
full library of common mid-2000's winshit home user bloatware? none
you couldn't even run stable dos games in linucks back then
>>59759037
XP runs on 128 megs of ram with 64 occupied on start, you could still use browser, amil clients and instant mesengers on that

>>59759072
>XP runs on 128 megs of ram with 64 occupied on start, you could still use browser, amil clients and instant mesengers on that
I never said otherwise.

>>59759072
>weak bait
It's like you're not even trying anon

>>59752819
>>59753155
If you want something in the 7" size range I'd recomennd the Sony Vaio P followed by the Asus EEE 900A (9" screen shoved into their 7" EEE 700 case with a better processor than the EEE 700 series as well) if the Vaio P is too expensive for you. Both of those options have hardware that is still usable today so long as you don't allow scripts globaly and don't run bloatware. I Personally still use an EEE 900A for when I need a computer on the go as it's small enough to fit into a small bag or even a cargo pocket, though it's a bit heavy for the later. For web performance, it can outperform 2012 flagship spec smartphones (I haven't had the chance to test it against anything newer). When Qutebrowser finally gets some sort of script controls that performance will increase even further as Qutebrowser offers multi core support and uses even less RAM than Palemoon which I use currently.

>>59757736
>stuck with one screen angle
>can't actually use it on your lap
>can't easily use it in a car
It's shit.

>>59757736
Because they suck ass.

>>59759072
>image manipulation? none
What is GIMP?
>office suite fully compatible with microshit formats? none
What is Open Office?
>skype, aol, fagbook, icq and other proprietary messengers?
What is Pidgin?
>full library of common mid-2000's winshit home user bloatware? none
Caring about this shit
>you couldn't even run stable dos games in linucks back then
What is Dosbox

0/10 made me reply

>>59758861
I have a mobile i5. Most news sites, Soundcloud, Facebook, and Google Docs each make my laptop noticeably struggle to handle all the JS bloat, and they cut down my battery life significantly. Running ublock makes news sites slightly better, but some are still slow.

Between that and things like scrolljacking, I think my resentment of modern JS dev is justified. And I am a web dev, so I know that this bloat can be avoided by competent developers, which are becoming rarer these days even at Google.

What really amuses me is how much worse Soundcloud is than Youtube. I can watch Youtube for hours and my laptop doesn't care a. bit. But almost as soon as I play something on Soundcloud, my fan turns on.

>>59758833
It wasn't even that bad with XP running on it. What really killed it was trying to actually do anything on it.

Netbooks that shipped with 7 Starter Edition or whatever were useless.

>>59759158
Fun fact: Microsoft is the reason netbooks were so shitty. You couldn't ship a computer with Starter Edition if the specs were too good and manufacturers wanted Starter Edition because it was the cheapest.

>>59759158
XP was the thin end of the wedge though, as rather than try and use them for what they were meant for (light internet browsing across an entire day) idiots like >>59759072
thought of them as though they were full size laptops, which meant that manufacturers in turn tried to turn them into a full fat laptop equivalent, putting stupid things like moving platter hard drives and other crap which served only to cut down on battery life and make people think you could do more with them than you actually could.

>>59759098
I should also add. Windows XP point of sale edition is great if you want to play older/less demanding Windows games such as 2hu.

>>59759148
>Running ublock makes news sites slightly better, but some are still slow.
Have you considered trying uMatrix and blocking the scripts that the websites you use don't actually need to run? uBlock is just an adblocker so it doesn't take care of all the bloat that isn't ads.

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guys what's the minimum specs you think you could use for a strictly offline set-up, and what os would be best? Something for typing things up, I guess would be it's foremost focus.

t. a person who's getting a retro hardon.

>>59759226
Magnavox RS3200 terminal. 256K buffer is enough for typing your thoughts from day to day. You could also offload the memory to tapes through audio port.

>>59759226
It depends on what the heaviest software you want to run is and how old you want to go really. Though if you are going back to the 90s or earlier, you should keep in mind that you'd need an easy way of transfering data since computers back then didn't have USB ports and computers today don't have floppy drives. I used an old laptop with a 133 MHz Pentium and 72 MB of RAM for typing reports on the go when I was in middle school.

>>59759226
>strictly offline

Literally anything you want.

>>59759310
Amiga 1200s have PCMCIA ports, so I'm sure you could get some software from aminet that can transfer over the network, and I've even seen some USB-Floppy conversions.

Though for ultra retro you'll want an old serial line/dot printer.

>>59759309
I'll look into that shit, thanks.

>>59759310
I mean, maybe a decade behind and further is what I'm thinking is the best range I could salvage from. I'd probably need to comb through alot of shit to figure out if there are any meme worthy retropads for offline use.

>>59759405
I get that you could use anything you want but I'm trying to narrow down the search and hopefully find any meme worthy retropads that are cheap, very small, and possible to get ahold of.

Not only that, but figuring out if there is an ideal OS that can boot while being the smallest, smoothest, and comfiest.

I will make this my endeavor!

>>59759449
>but figuring out if there is an ideal OS that can boot while being the smallest, smoothest, and comfiest.

If you get something with an x86 processor and a bootable CD drive you could install FreeDOS.

>>59759226
When you say "type things up", what are you looking for? Are you looking for a graphical word processor or just something that runs in a terminal like vim/emacs? If you just want terminal software then anything with a *nix port would probably be enough and you can pretty much just look at old shit online and find something you like in your price range.

>>59755841
Have one of these, dont expect to play video over 480p. Pretty ok for web browsing and trashing around in Linux.

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>>59759618
If he has something DOS based he can just use WordPerfect 5 or Word 4 (which are both freely available online now) if he wants proper formatting. As a bonus LibreOffice can still open WordPerfect's save files, so of the two I'd recommend that (it's just better anyway).

>>59759686

If you put a Pi in 640x480 (hdmi group 2 and mode 4 IIRC) then you can load DOSBox full screen and have a snazzy little DOS machine capable of running pretty much anything worth running from that era.

>>59759098
>When Qutebrowser finally gets some sort of script controls that performance will increase even further as Qutebrowser offers multi core support and uses even less RAM than Palemoon which I use currently.
Nevermind. I found the globally disable JS option in Qutebrowser and realized even with multiprocess support Qutebrowser takes about twice as long to load a page on 4chan with JS disabled as Palemoon does with JS enabled. How the fuck is it that shitty?

>>59755307
Unusable, literally cant do anything on it.

>>59759224
I did have third party scripts blocked in ublock for a while, making it kinda like umatrix, but it started feeling like a waste of time re-enabling everything for the sites I actually need script functionality on. Does umatrix make that easier?

>>59761007
I've never tried doing that in uBlock so I don't know how it's set up. I don't find enabling the scripts I need in uMatrix to be too much of a problem, though I've been doing it for about a decade now and originally had to do it with noscript.

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Question. I have an eeepc 1000hd in like new condition, 2gb ddr2 ram and a 60gb ssd. It runs fine, but struggles with browsing and h.264 playback. Any chance I could replace the internals with say a raspi3?
If so I'd like to replace the screen with something higher resolution than 1024x600.

>>59755307
They're shit. The best you can get in them is a dual core ARM Cortex A9 clocked at 1.5 GHz and 1 GB of RAM with an outdated and unsupported version Android (basically comparable to using a smartphone from 2012-2013). You can run Linux on them, but you have to run it off an SD card and you can only utilize one core due to some bullshit reason. I also don't know if you can get replacement batteries or not. Overall you would be much better off even if you went with an Asus EEE 700 series, so long as you don't get the first model where the RAM is soldered to the board so you can't upgrade past 512 MB. With all the decent older netbooks available for about the same price or less, there's no reason to subject yourself to that garbage.

>>59755307
>50 pounds
are they joking?

Everex Cloudbook, it's decent enough to use. but you need to use an old linux kernel or you don't get sound

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>>59755555

>>59761081
good luck

if you make it work out, would love to learn how

>>59755688
>>59755665
what a cute desktop~

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im on a eee 701 right now

>>59761716
What OS are you looking at changing over to in the near future now that Arch is dropping i686 support?

>>59761778
not much of a plan yet, but i could conceivably just not update right? what could go wrong? all i use is firefox dwarf fort and l3afpad.

>>59753245
I was lucky enough to find one of these at a yard sale in February, yes they are indeed kawaii as fuck.

It didn't boot when I got it because the CMOS battery was dead but that was pretty easy to replace. I also put in an 8gb CF card instead of the original noisy hard drive and installed a fresh Windows 98 using another machine.

It is extremely comfy for DOS games, since it has sound and the screen is active matrix not the blurry passive-matrix garbage, but the nub is awkward. I got a $5 USB card for the PCMCIA slot so I could use an external mouse but of course it only works in Windows, and Adlib sound doesn't work in Windows. I can't get it to wake up from sleep mode properly no matter which driver package I install. Don't expect to do a lot of typing on that teeny keyboard. Playing a MP3 uses 40% CPU.

>>59761841
>i could conceivably just not update right
>goes on to talk about using it online
Yeah, you could just go without recieving security updates for something that you connect to the internet. That sounds like a great idea.

>>59761716
The eee 701 blew me away back in the day, had so much fun with that as a teen.

>>59759009
I'm a wanker desu

>>59762029
I'd likely be fine for about two months until a massive 0day is found.

>>59761841
Just use Debian.
A Debian base install is smaller than Arch anyway.

>>59752951
I don't get it

>>59756284
No for real anon? Fuck you. I know why you posted that and I know I'm just falling for the bait, but seriously eat shit, I don't need to be reminded I'll never have one of these.

;_;

>>59761969
I have a 100CT like the one pictured. I bought an 8 GB CF card and an CF-to-IDE adapter, but I for the life of me cannot get the thing to recognize the card at all. I first tried formatting it on an old XP machine to no avail. I bought a $5 junker Satellite with a working floppy drive at the flea market and used my Windows 98 boot disk to get the CF card formatted. I thought that would work for sure since they both have Toshiba BIOSes, but nope, I still get a 'Non-system disk' error on the Libretto. I even tried putting the card into my older Satellite 420CDS thinking it would be more compatible with the Libretto, but the Satellite wouldn't even get to the BIOS with the CF card in there.

I'm surprised there's no Linux utility to format such cards to work with older machines. I don't want to have to keep scouting old laptops just to format a CF card to work with another older machine, but fuck if I'm going to let this thing sit.

>>59762573
probably a BIOS limitation considering those things typically shipped with 2GB disks, just try a smaller one for the boot drive and use a PCMCIA card for the 8GB one, should work

>>59756383
I was looking around and it's just ridiculous, I could sell my N450 nettops and buy some decent X series without spending much if anything at all
My N450's are 1 gb, I guess I will upgrade them to 2 gb so the poor faget who buys it doesn't suffer too much

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Thinkpad X100e, had one, adorably small and cute, very cheap, enough power to run W7 but not enough to play flash videos smoothly
>inb4 using flash
Thats not the point, the point is its an underpowered cute machine. Also hot as fuck, the X120e is the dual core version and that one does have enough power to play videos smoothly. I don't remember if I ever tried to play chinese cartoons on mine, but if it did it sure as fuck wasnt 10bit videos and 720p is the most you can play. Also pretty nice keyboard despite being chiclet.

>>59762573
I had to partition and format the CF card from the Windows 98 recovery disc using my other Satellite from 2002 with the broken hinge.Then I started the Windows 98 install from CD and moved the disk to the other machine at the first reboot opportunity.

Make sure to leave the last 128mb on the disk unpartitioned because it's used for hibernation. If you have a card bigger than 8gb you might have trouble with BIOS limitations. Oh and if you have one of the dual CF to IDE adapters, the Libretto will only see the card in the Master position.

>>59756383
I bought one of those off the Dell outlet back in 2009, abused it for 3 years of college, sold it to a family member and they're STILL using it today. Half the paint is flaking off but those things just don't die. Fry's is trying to sell refurbished ones for $200 even now.

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so do you all like grannies or not?
personally the ADM3A makes me fucking rock hard.
always thought about turning a dummy term into a full fledged lfs machine with a rpi and some hdmi to rfi to crt connectors.

>>59759618
It could literally be like a terminal from fallout. I want something that isn't too programmer esque though. Something that's more for like writing stories and journals and things like that.

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>>59763045
>always thought about turning a dummy term into a full fledged lfs machine with a rpi and some hdmi to rfi to crt connectors.
...or you could just hook it up to the serial port on your desktop (or the SBC of your choice as many of them have one) and use it as it was intended with no modifications or adapters needed. Ever heard of getty?

>>59763157
>I want something that isn't too programmer esque though. Something that's more for like writing stories and journals and things like that.
Are you retarded or something?

>>59763157
see post
>>59763045

>>59763228
I mean I waould like an interface that's max comfy with digital rain an shit. I know it doesn't exist probably but whatever.

I meant I didn't want something that you navigate through a terminal. I like clicks and boxes.

Yes I am.

>>59763228
yeah but if it were it's own machine i'd feel more like i accomplished something.
besides
i just really want a complicated project atm
might just find a broken sigler and take her casing

All i want is a tablet that can have a keyboard attached,and runs a desktop os
I want to not have to shitpost on my phone,and be able to run incscape and shit

>>59763282
If my switch had a browser it would be perfect

>>59763157
>>59763246
Then buy basically anything that could be remotely considered to be a computer and was released in the past 30 years that you think looks comfy. Why are you even asking this?

>>59763249
>yeah but if it were it's own machine i'd feel more like i accomplished something.
Have fun dying while fucking around with high voltage components.

>>59752819
Look up some small 11 or 12 inch laptops on ebay, should be fine as long as it doesn't have an atom processor

Picked up a x220 for $110 not too long ago shit had an i7 in it, more than enough for general use.

Does my VAIO Pro 11 counts?

>>59763339
thanks
ill ground myself just like papa /g/ told me to do!

>>59763375
Just make sure to put the ground strap on the hand that you aren't manipulating high voltage components with.

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>>59762248
For you :^)

>>59752819
this brings me back to when i was a kid, and the electronics store had ROWS of these netbooks.

and i wanted one so bad but never actually bought one.
my parents were such jews

>>59764002
>701C
>Win95
>0.7mm Ain Stein leads
Good taste

>>59753855
BCM970015 thank me later

>>59761778
>mfw opensuse and arch are leading the way

Guess I'll have to buy a new PC soon despite this one still working fine.

>>59753238
I don't have a reaction image in my folder to describe how hard I'm laughing right now
My sides are in real pain
I have actual tears streaming down my face.

>>59752819
Who is this cute little laptop and how tight is its USB port?

>>59761716
try windows 10

>>59752819
I'm myself stuck in a loop about this:
>want small laptop
>realize they have shit keyboards
>think a tablet with proper keyboard would be better
>tablets are all android, need actual computer
>want small laptop

Always liked my HP mini, but wouldn't mind one of the 8-9 inchers.
Sadly they had such large bezels that it's hard to find a model smaller than a 10"

>>59753245
>>59759098
>If you want something in the 7" size range I'd recomennd
At this point I'm thinking "I want a small laptop but not a UMPC because I have those and they're a bit shit", half reading ahead I see "900A" and think "Maybe something new", then I read
>I'd recomennd the Sony Vaio P followed by the
So I remembered what I typed before but then I remembered the fun of all this is making an underpowered POS mini machine useful and how nice the Vaio P is as a shit netbook rather than a super turbo shit laptop.
I almost stopped loving that thing, now I realize just how perfect it is.
God damnit it's in storage.
Tempted to pick up a 900A but I've already got a mini thinkpad in storage I hardly ever use

>TFW there will never be the ideal UMPC

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>>59765329
Someone just needs to make a modern VAIO UX and I'd happily shell out $2k for one

>>59765457
That was pretty comfy, but just too THICC

>>59764002
DLET

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>try to install Loonix on transmeta crusoe driven device
>no longer supported in most major distros
Argh!

>>59765559
I never knew it was so similar in size to the x200.

>>59757904
>>59758054
https://twitter.com/anonjr__/status/849958652232564738

>>59755786
Yeah this was dog shit to be honest. When they first released this it was running Vista if I'm not mistaken. And the high screen resolution meant you literally had to squint or use a magnifying glass to see anything on the screen. And the battery was abysmal, something like 1.5 hours per charge. It also cost like ~$599 in my country. If I could get one now for around $100 I'd be ok with it though

>>59765559

Can't it lie about its CPUID and tell the kernel it's a P3 or something? I thought that was one of its selling points.

>>59765172
I solved this problem by getting the following

>MacBook Air
>iPad mini 2
>iPhone SE

Now I have a phone that's only a phone for the most part. And my laptop can be used for work or movies or light gaming. But when I'm too lazy or if I'm lying down in bed or something, I just pull out my iPad. I've also turned it into a reader but haven't been fully satisfied. But overall, my small devices have filled my every need.

Now I want a gaming laptop so I can ditch my 3-monitor desktop since I haven't been using it since Windows 8.1.

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god damn this thread is still going?

>>59766450
I just want a small computer anon, I won't be buying three different things, and especially not three Apple products.

>>59766489
I was a thinkpad user before, I had an X200. I also briefly considered buying an X60/X61. But I just couldn't get myself to do it for fear of it being too underpowered. I just shared with you my preference and reasoning why I got a small laptop and a tablet as separate devices.

>>59755841
I had a Latitude 2110 which is just a tad more powerful

Overall its okay for basic web browsing but don't expect to watch too many youtube videos.

>>59757373
What is video?

-Sylvania laptop owner

>>59766450
The shilling, it's reached criical mass!

Why does no one make a 7" or 9" chromebook? It would be top tier comfy

/g/ should i do a hackintosh netbook

will it be pretty

>>59752884

Just got a 220t today anon, super cute!

>>59766541
11 inch notebook are not that big and also very cheap anon. I was able to buy a brand new Samsung Chromebook 2 for less than I paid for a used ThinkPad T60, it was also cheaper than a used ThinkPad X200. It only ran Chrome OS but I was able to enjoy like 9 hours of battery life. It was amazing for what it was. Only it buckled when watching YouTube sometimes and was severely limited. I don't know if Chrome OS is different these days though.

>>59766530
Faggot I'm the guy who used to own a thinkpad and here I said I also owned a Chromebook. You're on a technology board, some people here have really tried the things you have only read about or see in computer stores.

>>59766556
Tried that once, the install process is painfully slow and troublesome. And some of your shit might not even work. It's not worth it. Just run elementary or some other Linux OS.

And yes, I'm still the guy with the Macbook, iPad, and iPhone, ex owner of the ThinkPad T60, ThinkPad X200, and Samsung Chromebook 2.

>>59766504
That's not my reasoning though: I hate keyboards on laptops, and thought a decent keyboard plugged on a tablet would make a nice replacement.

But what I really need is a laptop.

>>59766584
thanks for saving me a headache and hours of work B)

>>59755841
On second thought avoid anything with an Atom processor

>>59766567
I've already got a standard size chromebook, I just want something that would be EDC size with a physical keyboard and decent battery

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>>59761716
MSI Wind U100, fresh Void install withe XFCE. Still works great, I can even play 720p videos with mpv -vo=xv
I love this machine.

>>59761778
>>59761841
>>59764427
Install Void.

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>>59766594
Have you actually tried them? Not all keyboards on small laptops sucks. An X200 keyboard is god tier. I don't know what it is about ThinkPad keyboards. And the Eee PC series from Asus have great chiclet keyboards. The Acer ones are not so great. I actually tried using a Windows 10 tablet with a mechanical keyboard for a while, something like a few months. It was nice, but I had to use a Bluetooth wireless mouse to complete the whole setup. I also bought a tablet stand. All in all, it was fucking expensive. The tablet was like $250, and I just threw away the keyboard dock with 500GB storage because it was shit. I paid $150 for the mechanical keyboard, $20 for the mouse, and $2 for the stand.

I mean it worked but it was a major hassle.

>>59766655
Then you want an Eee PC with a 6-cell or higher battery.

>>59765172
The only good laptop keyboards are pre-x230/430 chinkpads or modern chinkpads too if you can stand chiclet.
>>59766504
>anon wants small laptop with good keyboard
>macfag tells him to buy 3 worthless apple products instead

>>59766658
why did you choose void? how is watching videos on youtube working out?

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>>59766468
Yup and 100 posts later the pattern has only repeated more

>Hey everyone I'm on some deprecated 2003 tier shit!
>cool but can it browse the web or do anything
>silence

UMPC shits are BSD faggots in training. Repeat after me:

"the web didn't progress past 2005 if I just buy a shitty enough laptop"
"I'm better than you"
"back in the day, mang... man, back in the day"
"U don't *need* anything past 300 mhz cause U dont *need* video because I *am* a piece of shit"

The UMPC faggot quandry: If someone actually made your 7 inch laptop, then everyone would buy it, and we'd be right back wanting a 5 inch laptop, then you'd complain the keyboard buttons are shit, so you'd want a bigger laptop. There is no product that can satisfy UMPC shits because they are hipsters, this has NOTHING TO DO WITH TECH. We've been through hundreds of UMPC shit-threads over the past year and they NEVER PICK A MODEL.

Now click the button for that IRC circlejerk and leave the board to business laptop users who aren't living off welfare.

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Of course if money is no issue you could always get a Surface Pro

>>59766737
>why did you choose void?
KISS, no systemd, i686 support, small community, easy to host your own repos or make your own packages

>how is watching videos on youtube working out?
I use a firefox extension called "open with" to open youtube links in mpv.

>>59766735
I want neo /g/ to leave

The 11 MBA, iPad mini 2, and iPhone SE are the best and most comfy computing devices ever. Don't ever post again you ignorant piece of shit.

>>59766808
>meme
>overpriced, underpowered devices are great because ...
>insult because no argument
Outstanding.

>>59766896
>repeating tired old /g/ memes about Apple products
Didn't I just tell you to stop posting?

>>59766918
>still no argument to speak of
I'm not sure if you're a pajeet or just genuinely retarded but thanks for bumping.

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>>59766943
>wants me to argue against memes
lmao

Look kid, I was once the edgy anon that was ignorant about certain things but I grew up. I now have a job and I could probably be your boss. I went through lots of shitty products and fell for many /g/ memes before I came to the conclusion that some Apple products do actually have some merit. You're basically disagreeing that the 11-inch MBA which you can't afford isn't the comfiest shit ever. That's why you aren't getting any argument from me. So as I said, stop posting you ignorant piece of shit.

But don't mind me, I'm just a pajeet :^)

>>59766981
Saving this.

>>59766753
>cool but can it browse the web or do anything
Shit nigga, in 2003 I was browsing the web on a shitty computer, today I need a 00's era supercomputer to load up a page on Twitter displaying 140 byte long messages.

Those things can still:
>browse imageboards and other "oldweb" websites
>browse modern websites and at least access their content
>play music
>view documents
>edit text
>connect to FTP, SMTP, POP, IRC, NNTP, and plenty other protocols still essential today

In fact, you can do about anything that doesn't have to do with
>bloated and redundant modern normie social networks
>modern video playback/editing/games

It's not like our needs have changed much since 2003. My old XP computer could do EVERYTHING I do today, it's just that everything is bloated now. If you would put the slightest thought into it you'd realize it.

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>>59767006
Sure anon here's the rest

>>59765559
Gentoo, cross compile on a desktop

>>59767054
Except that running a webpage today requires more hardware than running a AAA game in 2003.

>>59767054
This is what I said about becoming a BSD shit. "lol u dont need dat"

you are dangerous when you are disregarding entire billion dollar industries with your shitty hippie "oh everything is bloated now and I think I'm better than you". Remember that YOU are the one on the highway going backwards, not everyone else, when you have shitty neo-luddite psuedo politics that say you should remove progress and be stuck in 2005. Oh you found some gay IRC circlejerk with other losers who repeat the same thing, you're still 10 people going backwards on the highway versus millions going forwards.

>00s era supercomputer
You'd also need a 1995 hypercomputer... or you can get an average nothing C2D from 2006. But you won't do this because this is about being a hipster and even 2006 pcs are too mainstream

We have to remove all web 1.0 content and IRC to force spergs to stop jerking off. Then they will kill themselves because they can't be hipsters anymore.

You can see this as a red flag from a mile away when there's not even a single model in the thread after 200+ posts.

Thinkpad thread:
>X, T, W

GPU thread:
>Gigabyte, evga, XFX

BSD thread:
>fuck you I'm better than you

UMPC thread:
>fuck you

Where's your models, what do you use? You don't use anything because this is not "I want a small laptop", it is "I am better than you"

>>59763282
This, I've got a stream 7.

Are there any keyboard cases that act like a clamshell to simulate a all laptop?

>>59767377
>you are dangerous when you are disregarding entire billion dollar industries with your shitty hippie "oh everything is bloated now and I think I'm better than you".
I like it when you call me dangerous anon ;)

>>59755223
>19 out of 555
My sides

>>59753245
tfw i threw mine in the trash

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>>59766765
But that's defeating the point.

>>59767377
> you are disregarding entire billion dollar industries

Would that not make sense? What interest have they got in saving people money? By their nature they want bloat that only you spending more money can alleviate.

When the decision to buy new hardware is made by not the user, and not the deterioration of the hardware, but by those who sell it, is it not sensible to go against such anticonsumer practices?

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I wouldn't mind getting an x120e or similar. They're cheap and they seem reasonably powerful enough for the kind of tasks I would give them. At the price they go for, I wouldn't care too much if they were slow anyways. 50 dollars to play around with a new machine for a few weeks is worth it. I've spent more on video games, and the games never turned out to be useful for anything.

>>59768025
I dont understand what that guys problem is. I wanted a cheap laptop that wasnt over $200 and would last for a good while, so I got a ThinkPad X200. Back then it was all I could afford, and it was before all the cheap 2-in-1 Windows tablets. Now, there's Chromebooks, cheap Windows laptops, and still used ThinkPads. But there's something for everyone. I don't understand the hate.

>buy a synet07526
>get debian working on it
>realize my phone and 3ds are better at web browsing

at least it only cost $12 used.

>>59768025
Don't be silly. Good wholesome sites like 4chan works ok on an old system with a Pentium III and 512-1024 MB RAM. You should let the billion dollar industries make bloated sites and services so you have a reason to upgrade from your 1999 technology.

>>59768100
I would get an old X200 over those cheap windows laptops. Stuff like the R417/E403 series and similar from HP is just suffering. A well maintained X200 with an SSD and a new battery would probably provide a better experience than new laptops sold for the same kind of money.

>>59767377
>you are dangerous when you are disregarding entire billion dollar industries
How is this even an argument or a point? Did you even proofread your post or is there some convoluted meaning?

We're not here to tell people what to think. In fact, YOU came in here to tell us we're wrong. Fuck off maybe. No one cares what we type on our keyboards.

When I'm outside with friends, which I call on their phones using standard GSM network, no one fucking cares how I use a computer.

>>59752858
This guy gets it.
x200, x201 for old 16:10 Thinkpads.
x220, x230 for newer 16:9 Thinkpads.
I snagged my x230 for $145. Even came with an IPS display.

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>>59752951
>mfw

>>59768182
Yeah i know a well specced old X200 is much better than a $250 Celeron piece of shit, even if those have an SSD. But older Thinkpads are no so old that a lot of them are dilapidated and havent been taken care of well enough. I'm talking shiny keys and maybe a non working trackpoint, a broken fingerprint scanner, something weird with the screen. Not to mention the horrible battery life. Theyve got their pros and cons.

>>59752819
why old fecals wen iphons better and do entire yu desire thing and are everywhere and has good programs and fast are and not click music and weight hard

>>59768428
If you know how and are willing to put in the effort. A cheap business laptop is very tempting. A new keyboard is only about 10-20 dollars. I guess this is why these laptops are so popular with a lot of people on /g/. They're cheap, people here knows how to replace parts, and people here tend to be willing to put down the time.

I'd give one of these to my mom, but if she was to buy laptops on her own, I wouldn't tell her to get a used thinkpad/elitebook/latitude. She'd probably be better off with the cheap piece of shit from the store, since she wouldn't know how to repair the small annoyances on her own, and wouldn't know where to get parts cheaply.

>>59764002
Learning Finnish?

>>59755786
I couldn't even find this one.

>>59766391
> If I could get one now for around $100 I'd be ok with it though
"Just because they costed $600 from the start" people still can not part with it for a $100. Although these machines are utter shit internally, the prices on them are ridiculous.

>>59752819
>useless

Use it as an offline machine. I only use it when I want shell access to my private server at home and that would be done through ethernet.

It's primary use is separation. It's a machine that doesn't have Internet access. It's packages are compiled and only the simplest requirements are met. Using a GUI would be retarded, so I use tmux to have some windowing.

I keep my diary, finances, and keys to my private home server on it. I setup luks-dm and grsec on Gentoo.

Of course if you're a normie just save on a text file and call it a day.

>>59766558
Heed this anon, anything other than GNU/Linux and you can kiss the pen support goodbye.

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>make a post yesterday to try and find a new chinktoons laptop
>its still alive and popular

Th-Thanks /g/, nice to know I can make quality OPs.

What's the bare minimum these days to watch anime?
Is it still a core2duo?

>>59769097
>quality

>>59769345
mobile i7 for 1080p HS upscales

>>59759686
>>59760417
You raise an interesting point: why are there no low power, low cost, low capability machines?

What I mean is that back in the day there used to be a set of limits to what a particular piece of hardware was meant to do, so why do we expect a machine to be able to do everything? Like those monochrome LCD word processors which were never meant to be a full computer.

Even the shittiest netbook could run DOS (either in DOSBox emulated or FreeDOS on the disk), so why not just use them within their means and be happy with it?

UMPC : The fuckstick : the fanfic : the sales phone call

>Lenovo sales how can I help you?
>Well I need a laptop
>No problem sir we offer our flagship T series
>Those are too big
>Here is the X series
>n-no fuck you
>Sir, may I ask what this is for?
>"JERKING OFF!!!"
>slams phone down and runs away crying

3 weeks later
>HP sales, fuck you?
>Yeah I need a laptop that you don't have
>no problem let me transfer you to our "flake" department
>slams phone down, breaks own legs and crawls away

183 days later
>Dell, fuck, you
>YEAH FUCK U I NEED A LAPTOP THAT DOESN'T EXIST FUK U
>slams phone down before sales rep can and actually never placed the call because the phone was a netbook phone and isn't powerful enough to get online

Present day
>It is up to me to tell everyone how better I am then them... oh shit, I can't get online with me craptarp... need to go find old sites to take a shit on... i am fukken betdar than u... cause I have a different and old shitty laptop... society is cool cause teachers just wanted me to "be different" and here I am. yooo, be like me, be shit, so I can get online... everyone!!!!!!!!!

Future
>NETBOOK DIED BECAUSE ITS CONSUMER SHIT NOW I CANT DO ANYTHING HILARIOUSLY ENOUGH I AM MUCH MUCH BETTER NOW EXCEPT I HAVE NO WAY TO LET ANYONE KNOW

Distant Future
>There was a mass suicide netbook cult made up of angry shits that can't tell anyone how better than everyone else they are. They worship a brown box as inside is rumored to be the world's last remaining working netbook because this fad faggot loser product died in 2007. They open the box and try to get online... only to find it can't render html 6 without boiling over its atom CPU. an entire sub culture is made underground of the remaining losers jerking each other off as they repeat "lol u dont need dat". They rise up from the sewers to find that humanity has migrated to another solar system. They then kill each other because there is nobody to pretend to be better than

>>59769526
I'm sure your bros in middle school love this one

>>59769567
oh fuck! Reggo my ego!

>>59769587
>responding this quickly
>writing massive rants
autism confirmed

>>59769605
>autism confirmed
then you must be lost

>>59765532
That's a big part of the reason someone needs to make a modern one.

>>59766765
OP's asking about small laptops, not shitty tablets.

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why do we not have UMPCs today that utilize soldered components (memory, storage) and ULV processors?

think about it, 10.1" 'netbook' in 2017

display:
>1920x1080 60hz IPS (might be too large of a resolution for that small of a screen so)
>1440x900 IPS 60hz
>1366x768 IPS 60hz

your choice of CPU:
>i7-7500U
>i5-7200U
>i3-7100U

if not soldered memory:
>8gb LPDDR3
>16gb LPDDR3

if not soldered storage:
>one 2.5" drive bay
>two msata, 2'5" drive bay
or
>one msata, one m.2, and one 2.5" drive bay

graphics:
>igpu so whichever comes with whatever chip

battery:
>some 9-cell or some shit whatever


i mean, of course it would be pricey as fuck, but god damn, can you imagine? /comfystation/ to the fucking max senpaitachi

super low-voltage mobile build, would be great on battery life, heat wouldnt be a huge issue, thoughts??

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>>59752951
>>'TISM 'TISM 'TISM 'TISM 'TISM

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>>59769731
Let's Notes have some pretty decent specs, prices approach $2k though

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>>59769813

>0.1 inch, 1920 x 1200 pixel touchscreen display
>1.6 pounds
>Core i5-7Y45 and Core i7-7Y75 processor options
>8GB to 16GB of RAM
>128GB to 1TB of SSD storage
>802.11ac WiFi and Bluetooth 4.1
>11+ hours of battery life
>Prices start at ¥192,800($1181)

its fucking beautiful

thank you based anon

>>59755841
>>59759662

Concur, have a dell d420, i like the size, but sucks it can't do video well. (Any good linux distros for these old PCs? I've heard mint isn't good for these old C2Ds)

>>59769526
Why do you think that laptops that you need a backpack to carry around with you are more suitable than laptops that were small enough to fit in a cargo pocket?

>>59769869
that isnt C2D senpai, it's atom

i WISH netbooks could handle a C2D

your best bet is lubuntu, #!++, cloudready, or some other lightweight distro

even then, they will still stutter quite a bit on some things

>>59769878
Because he's an autist and can't see things from any other perspective

>>59769869
get an x220, practically the same size but dont suck ass

minus the screen, THAT sucks ass

>>59753245
For a second I got confused by the libre in the name and it running windows.

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>>59769497
>the right tool for the right job

lol welcome to the future gramps

now it's jack of all trades master of none

>>59769893
Thanks, just surprised it stutters on video, heard mint can peg cpu on old PCs though, will check out lubuntu

>>59769943
I got it free, was an engineers at work and it was just getting too old (plus vista support ends soon) I would like something smaller, but guess it's not worth spending money on.

What's the cheapest and usable little laptop I can get shipped to EU?

I don't care if preowned and I don't give a fuck about using an old Windows or any Linux distro.

>>59770001
yeah, grab a distro with i686 support

someone was posting above about a distro called "Void", you may wanna check that out

he got his with the xfce DE, uses software called MPV to watch his shit, and uses a program called "open with" to watch youtube videos in mpv

apparently no systemd either, since his post i have been wanting to check it out and probs put it on my latitude 2100

>>59769869
Linux distros running differently is a meme. How well Linux will run depends entirely on what software you try to use, most noticeably your desktop environment. Mint with a light weight WM will run just as good as Arch with a light weight WM.

>>59769991
Just wait, it can get worse. That bottom picture still has a laptop instead of a phone dock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA31CaL_42A

>>59770039
just go down a list of UMPCs

like, search 10.1" netbooks, make a list of them that suit your fancy, then start seeing if they are available to you

i'll start you off

>dell latitude 2100/2120
>asus Eee 1000 series netbooks
>thinkpad x120e/x100e
>acer aspire one

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I own this shit, it could have been a killer device if :
- It had wifi
- Support lasted longer (main os is no longer updated)
- Installing alternate OSes wasn't a pain in the ass

But its a total piece of shit

>>59770143
I gotta check acer and asus, Dell Latitude and Thinkpad seem ok but I would have to pay 50-60 bucks for shipping, wich is pretty much the laptop price.

I was about to suggest a Lenovo Ideapad 100s but I just read that its linux support is fucking abysmal.

>>59770935
seems appealing.
shouldn't be too hard to install any distro on it.
but that eMMC storage, would make me sweat. would not want to brick one of those

>>59769345
Atom N270 for 720p 8bit h264

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>>59768647
Native one :D