So my question is does anyone have one? What do you use it for? I thought given the history of this device it was worth saving. So these old Netbooks now end up dug out of a cupboard and put on eBay with very few people interested in buying them. The space that the EeePC and later netbooks once occupied has been filled by very cheap android smartphones. ![]() The cheapest most accessible way to get online now has change. People are denied their basic human right to access the internet even to this day. As a result the EeePC sold well in our own back garden and gave rise to an entire industry of cheap Netbooks and later Ultrabooks. In a time before cheap smartphones, these people couldn't access the internet at all. As it transpired there were impoverished and disadvantaged especially young people right here in the first world that couldn’t afford computers. Of course the average middle class entitled snob of the time that cooked up the idea assumed that it wouldn't have any market in the western world because we were all using proper computers by this stage. This device was created for the sole purpose of providing basic computing and internet access to the third world. Some others have claimed that expensive UMPCs or PCs targeted specifically at very young children constitute a netbook but I disagree. ![]() ![]() I think it has a fascinating place in computer history as the first ever real Netbook. So I recently acquired an Asus EeePC 701SD (Windows XP Model).
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