Just performed updates to this seven year old netbook and still impressed the amount of work that is possible with an archaic piece of netbook hardware. It was worthless as a Windows PC when my father picked it up new at Costco. However, as soon as he abandoned this thing to a closet I dropped in a new battery and it’s been my third string system.
I’ve ran Xubuntu, Manjaro and Peppermint OS on this system eventually sticking to Trisquel 7 so I would have a free software system in the house. To get wifi working I use a USB dongle from Think Penguin.
The specs
- 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N455 64 bit processor
- Upgraded to a whopping 2 GB of RAM
- 320GB 5400 RPM Hard Drive
- 1024×600 LCD
- Up to 8 hours of battery life!
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