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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> I guess it's a form of spring housecleaning but I've been sorting through 
> old stuff. 
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus_Eee_PC
>
> This was the first project. I have a 4G Surf, aka a 701. It has a massive 
> 4GB SSD and 512 bytes of RAM. The problem I ran into years ago was it only 
> handled WEP WiFi. Could I do anything with it?
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q4OS
>
> I installed it with the minimal desktop configuration to stay within the 
> 4GB limit. Unlike the original xandros it can handle WPA2. I'm not saying 
> it's fantastic but Konqueror comes up and handles web sites as well as it 
> ever did. I also installed lynx. 
>
> After the eeePc experiment ended I moved to a netbook as a very portable 
> device, specifically a Acer Aspire. It had Windows 7 which sort of ran but 
> couldn't load VS Code or other modern apps and was slow. It has a .9 GHz 
> Celery, 4GB of RAM and a 500 GB SSD so it is a little more real than the 
> eee. It also has a Broadcom WiFi which is problematic.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubuntu
>
> Obviously it's no speed demon but it is quite usable with an up to date 
> distro. There were no problems with the touch pad, buttons, or screen 
> resolution. 

I used an Aspire (single core) at work with Linux on it and it ran
Solidworks in a Windows virtual machine surprisingly well.

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