Should the Atom line be terminated? I've owned two machines (one with an Atom N470 and the other with an N450), and they're just terrible. They're only bearable with a light distro of Linux installed. Thoughts?
Also, what's your favorite Linux distro to put on an Atom machine?
>Should the Atom line be terminated?
no, they're good for what they are for
I used a netbook for over a year, the only bad thing was when I started college I had horrible headaches from typing essays on the small screen, switched to a standard size laptop
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Do you know which cpu was in it and how much RAM it had?
looks like I was wrong, it was a celeron netbook
still served me pretty well, I could even do very basic gaming on it
i just couldn't stand headaches anymore, I'll never understand how so many people on Sup Forums can use an x220 as their daily driver, and I have perfect 20-20
I understand the feeling of the size, but it's so nice to have a full fledged personal computer (even with processing limitations) so portable. I picked up a Dell Mini 10 for $36 for the hell of it.
Oh I totally understand that too, I loved being able to walk around with it wherever I wanted
for me though 14 inches is the sweet spot, love my T430, I just wish I would have grabbed a 1600x900 res model
I've got an Asus K55A and I wish that little i5 could be packed into a 10.1 inch netbook. The portability and power would be so nice to take everywhere.
> They're only bearable with a light distro of Linux installed.
No, they are actually still quite powerful machines that can run a lot of things, even if they aren't quite the monsters that bigger CPU are.
is that way.
They can hardly stream videos, and Windows 7/10 take up a lot of system resources. They are so sluggish. Good for typing, but that's about it. Some Atom processors are better than others, though.