I had a 1000HE. Worked well enough for web browsing. Granted, I swapped out the hard drive for an SSD. On the other hand, it was a terrible SSD. One of the first gen ocz ones.
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Hiko0@feddit.de 8 months ago
They were unbearably slow even back then. I returned my 1000H with its Atom N270 after a day and saved a little more money until I was able to afford a 2008 MacBook. Never regretted it. On the contrary, this marked my complete move to MacOS which saved me from continuing to use Windows which had already really got on my nerves starting with Windows 7.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I still have my 1000H from 2010 and even used it for school and uni right up until 2019 when I no longer was doing on campus work and I could do everything on my desktop.
Granted, I went down the rabbit hole of Linux on it around the 2015 mark because Windows 7 onwards was too much for it, and it always had overheating issues.
wolf@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Had a 100X EEE PC, for my use cases they where totally usable, but of course I installed Linux with a lightweight desktop environment on them. It was even possible to run Docker containers and virtualize Windows XP.
w2tpmf@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You returned a $200 netbook and only needed a little more money to get an $1100 MacBook?
Hiko0@feddit.de 8 months ago
I paid 430€ for the Eee and I paid 1100€ for the MacBook. Sure that‘s not just a little more money.
However, the way I calculate such purchases is: price divided by years of usage. I used the MacBook as a main computer for three years until I could afford a more powerful Mac mini as my desktop computer. I continued to use my MacBook intensively for university and for mobile photo editing for another five years. This means a total lifespan of nine years or 122€ per year.
If I had stalled my decision not to send back the Eee and try working with it ignoring the shortcomings, I maybe would have used it for a year or a couple of months longer. The netbook trend, according to my recollection was quite short so I guess I couldn‘t have sold it for a good price then.
So what I actually wanted to say is that the MacBook, despite it costing more than double, was by far the better deal for me.