Small laptops have been devices that promise a lot, but fail one way or another. From Atari Portfolio handheld computers to the recent netbook harvest, they have been incredibly expensive if they are smart or so compromised by their length limitations that they are almost useless. We’ve noticed DOS, EPOC, Windows, WinCE, Palm OS, Linux and more distributions in small formats over the years, but few have left a significant footprint.
The prospect of having an “appropriate” PC in your hand is not something to give up right now. We are now getting to the point where the past generation of high-end Android pills is tough and giant enough to have a very moderate price. Maybe they can provide the little computer researcher with a basis for anything useful. [NODE] actually thinks so, because it produced a large small Ubuntu computer that employs a used Nexus 7 pickup and a Bluetooth keyboard case. Android is repositioned via an Ubuntu symbol and a cardboard-cut demo frame is held in position via magnetic stripes. A step-by-step consultant has been put in place to help others follow the same path.
This is not the ultimate amazing hardware hacks, as it’s basically industry parts and software. However, it is worth a look as it provides an address for a very appropriate small Linux computer for an incredibly moderate price. One fear is that the Ubuntu edition does not seem to be recent, however, we are sure that readers will hint at a more recent distribution edition in the comments. If you need to see the finished computer, you released a video that we included under the break.
We’ve shown you some homemade palm trees over the years, this one with a Raspberry Pi at the heart and this Commodore 64. Or you can take a look at our DIY summary.
Through Lifehacker.
I use an old Aspire running Mint on Chromecast on our main TV. It works very well.
I still have a perfectly functional 701 eeepc from 2008, used as telegram bot server and works like a charm with lubuntu. netbooks were just great, it’s a shame that the market doesn’t care…
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even here, 901, pc sometime.
The magic smoke escaped from the cargo circuit of my 701 years. 🙁
I use my Eee 1005HA especially when I travel. I think tablets have killed netbooks even if they’re meant for other purposes. A touchscreen (tablet) aims to consume data, while a keyboard and mouse remain the most productive way to produce data.
Yes. I use my Eee-PC every day. It had two new keyboards and a replacement SSD (faster and larger), but it still works perfectly. Every time I take it out, other people say, “Wow! A little PC! Where can I get one?”
These things were perfect, it’s a shame they never let the design branch pay attention to the whining and ferocious “criticisms.”
These days they can be thin with Retina displays, etc., but nooooo … they’re absolutely to use because the keyboard only measures 90%, right? (sarcasm)
Eee – Lubuntu here. I heard “Wow! A little PC! So many times. Always use it every day
I was late at the netbook party until I bought one and then another used one. I can write pretty well on it, however, I see that the keyboards, abuse before, are of poor quality, I may just update them. However, it is still both investing as I am charged. I saw the shape of the chuckarounds and took it everywhere. They work strangely well with Windows 10, I was going to stick lubuntu or anything else, thinking that they were now too old and too slow for Windows, but with 2 GB, w10 is quite usable. The only other complaint is a low vertical solution in mine … Mine are a piglet sleeper past and a very similar emachine with n450.
I’m divided between spending cash on them, SSD and new keyboards, and locating a larger one with vertical resolutions of 768 or 900. See some Dells in reving chains that are tempting.
Although I wonder if I would also laugh “a lot” with them if I had paid more, since I don’t care where I take them if you go to what I mean, I wonder if I’ll spend a few euros for a smart we’d like you to leave it more in houseArray.. I’m like that with those things, I keep the “ready” in reserve until the old man is absolutely beaten to death and can’t even.
I have a prey of the V2000 series is almost as compact, the backlight of the screen is dead. In part, I need to restore this and use it for the chuck, load a Turion 2Ghz and it will have to be as smart as 1.6G atoms. I tried live CDs with them in the afterlife and they didn’t seem to work well with power savings. I’ll have to go out again.
Running a Dell Mini nine here, I run it with XP and Enhanced Write Filter (EWF) to save you any permanent adjustments to the operating system. I treat it pretty much as a device. Anyway, I use it with a USB oscilloscope for portable troubleshooting. This is smart because I am completely away from the domain (no isolation transformers, etc.).
I need the netbooks to resurface. I have more I/O in this Dell Mini nine than in the last two generations of macbooks combined … a strange comparison that I know, but it turns out that the market tends to stick to Apple’s tendencies. So I’m afraid not only will I see fewer netbooks, but also fewer laptops with functional ports in the future.
Anyway, three cheers for the netbooks.
I just found that the Turion are about 20% faster on the same watch as the N450 Atoms and with only small upstream and downstream innovations in upgrades, clock by clock even faster…
Then, as I suspected, Turion64 subcarriers with full RAM can offer a choice to netbooks. Although there are also low-strength subnote models, Core 2 Duos, on downing clocks, 1.2 1.4 etc., this can also be valuable considering. Semprons are also faster than atoms, but not as fast, and it can be very difficult to figure out from labeling and product specifications if you have a compatible AMD64, or if it’s a low-strength device or one of the “DRP” versions that went up about 30 or 40 watts, i.e. they’ll suck the juice quickly.
Netbooks were a kind of reaction to the fact that laptops were no longer so small and were huge and hungry for energy, 17-inch screens, etc. finish lead-free welding problems, so locating anything fast enough, scalable enough and working enough is shit.
I guess it was a bit of an ultrabook that ended the netbook, because consumers weren’t easy to get more power, it was hard to get genuine processors in the netbook value diversity he set, a $700 netbook? difficult to sell…. had to go high-end.
What I would like (and I’m sure others would like) is a complete consultant to dress up with ‘all’ Android device to start Ubuntu.
I tried to do it four years ago at Toshiba Thrive, but they never gave it to me. Hell, as far as I knew, it was starting, but the USB and the demonstration weren’t there.
This… what struck me was Ubuntu on Android and I’m disappointed that it’s a plug-and-play solution that give you clues to do it on anything.
I agree with you. A linux standalone hardware distribution that can be loaded into any reasonable Android pill would be great. It’s strange to think that although the pills use hardware from manufacturers, they all have almost the same types of hardware. Surely there are “generic” drivers that will run almost all hardware components.
Is the driving force of the Ps/2, 16-color VGA and do2000 device sufficient for anyone?
Perhaps the most annoying component is that there are several Tegra 2 gadgets that had an “official” (Asus Transformer, Motorola Xoom, Advent Vega), but you can’t just grab one of the other cores and release it and make it work.
I still have the Thrive I need to put Ubuntu. It’s not worth a look to sell right now, so you could also check for Ubuntu to start doing it.
I also have a Thrive that I liked for all the elements I can connect. I know that there are older and slower versions of Linux Lite for PCs, is this something that can be applied to Thrive? I don’t know anything about computer science, but I’d like you to touch me to tell me what you’re discovering.
The trick will be to replace the old LiPo with a new one …
You know ArtMarx, you’re probably right. It’s definitely not a trick; putting a pill in a cardboard box is hardly described as creative, let alone piracy. This total site is falling fast. I can’t, I keep coming here for probably loose content and homework ideas.
I have four tablets in keyboard cases, all with Android, so if I just put stickers and shine on them, is this a trick? Wow hackaday now comes down to boring craft and art items.
No one makes you read here. Don’t you like it? Don’t read it. Like that.
Why don’t you sell your finished netbook/pda in your store for me to buy?
Links to where the stock of portions can have also worked well.
I think I’ll go from windows10 asus 2in1 to linux, but I think I’ll put tails and deepin on it. Does Linux paint with parrot drones or mini-drones? Do you know?
I took five lenovo x130e laptops for 60 each, have an integrated Windows 8 license and yet I run Gentoo if I have anything to do with it, or … they work well and are super physically powerful as they are designed for kids. I updated the RAM of one of them to 8GB (maximum, recognize 8GB keys, only part will be used)
It’s not the fastest, but a 1.8GHz AMD processor is rarely so wonderful. I have a configuration running my printer 3-d and some other that I carry with me in one and its autonomy is also correct.
What do you know? Worked! I love my new Ubuntu tablet!
Why buy a Chromebook and put Ubuntu on it?
Well, the article about a “portable” touchscreen of less than $100 hacked. I don’t reject your idea, in fact it’s possible and it would probably be a better and faster solution for the maximum of people, but that’s not the subject of this article.
Nothing to do with hardware piracy either, however, I’m interested in Pyra (creators of OpenPandora). It is a genuine Linux handheld device for retail that is primarily open hardware, and is designed for the dual role of cellular game emulation and Linux cellular hacking. The value is high, but it almost is, as they do all the hard work. It has LOCATION for SIM card and phone support.
HP’s professional books for $25 look like a bargain. Where do you buy them?
I did something similar two years ago with a tablet, and I also created a window manager and a tablet-specific app launcher. If you need to see them, they are here:
http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/tabletwm.html
Ordered. He encouraged me. I pulled out my old Nexus 7 with the screen broken. I exploded ubuntu 13.04 on it, then discovered a USB keyboard and a USB to mini USB adapter and ubuntu discovered the keyboard, which allowed me to get the installation process. Connect it to Wi-Fi, install ssh and use it now as a headless server. Thank you for brightening my day to reuse it.
I had precisely this Zagg Bluetooth keyboard for my Nexus 7, 2013. I got it for about $80 with insurance of around $15, replacing it once at the beginning, then towards the end of the insurance they didn’t have more, so I exchanged it for a gift card. Both times he replaced it because the plastic strap near the ends of the pill would be visibly under pressure and would begin to tear/break. Despite the design flaw, I liked the setup, even with old Android on the pill (termux provides me with a Linux terminal and a fairly smart repository of programs (like emacs) and compilers). I got the pill for about $150 T-Mobile with knowledge plan on my wife’s phone.
I guess I wrote all this to say it’s a very viable setup, however, the total keyboard charge (and insurance) and the pill was about $250 plus my knowledge plan. I liked the way I can just take it out on the subway and press messages or notes on my pill.
I would like to get this keyboard again, instead, I have a sports case with a crutch that I bought on Amazon (I had to modify the stand with a nail register to open as it was designed) and a Best Buy is worth it: a matching Bluetooth keyboard. It can no longer write accurately on the subway, but it works very well on a computer or on a table. In fact, after I pressed this, I discovered one on eBay, nine, for $18 delivered, so I pulled the trigger.
I would like someone to figure out how to root the Android Nobis NB7850S tt. Staples sold millions of them. LCD 1024 – 768, aluminum housing, USB OTG, front and rear cameras. Android Locked – tightArrayArrayArrayArray I tried all the root hacks “guaranteed to work” that I have been to locate and I have only checked to get something when every time it is dissed or restarted, a factory reset is played. As long as it doesn’t, it works the way it should.
I wonder if your w10 lashes are so bad, there is a reasonable locally, in the case of BT kb. Quad-core processor. Ubuntu is intended to offer expansion for x86 tablets.
HP manufactured the original handheld PC, an IBM-PC compatible with an LCD-only demo, and an 8088 processor. Toshiba has made a smart career with its Libretto series. IIRC, the first (or the first to be outdoors in Japan) had a 486 processor. These were temporarily replaced via models with Pentium processors running Windows 95.
Toshiba needed to release a 32-bit drive force for the floppy drive. Connecting the floppy disk was problematic due to its 16-bit driving force, I do not know how they controlled it to make it work, perhaps they were “inspired” through the help of Win 95 for the driving forces of the Windows 3.1 16-bit printer. This made reinstalling the original edition of Win95 from floppy disks an engaging experience.
Another palmtop the Palmax, which had two models, the PD1000 and the PD1100 with Cyrix MediaGX chips.
The ultimate vital aspects of an ultra-portable deserve to be: the weight, keyboard and touchpad padded with backlighting, battery life, durability and ease of maintenance. Just my 2c after so many and with the i7 laptops “gaming” in my backpack.
Thank you, I updated the links in the context of the article.
The N4200 is a Celeron processor. It’s a four-core Pentium. It’s not the same.
The third PC with VGA port was adaptable. I use two of them with a small Windows XP. They also have DDR2 RAM, which is easy to upgrade to 2GB. I even had a working AI, voice popularity, an animated and horny virtual assistant to talk to, in 2007! The market has fallen asleep, letting corporations monopolize the convenience of idiots, rather than maintaining adaptability that buyers would like to customize. Now you want an SBC, and I’m not talking about Arduino shit that’s too expensive.