This one came with a stripped-down version of Windoze 7, but never ran it.
Reformatted it immediately with Xubuntu/xfce and it's been running like a champ ever since.
Posted on 02/08/2016 9:47:10 AM PST by dayglored
And rather better than a US$35 tablet, if you need a Windows 10 machine lurking around
Among the many bizarre and stupid mistakes Microsoft made with Windows 8.x was the decision to require screens to have resolution of at least 1024 x 768.
That decision meant that hordes of Netbooks, the very small laptops popular in the late noughties, had no obvious upgrade path from Windows XP to Windows 8.x.
Back in November 2013 I therefore tried to figure out how to extend the life of my own Netbook. Along the way I confirmed that Windows 8 was indeed a terrible idea for Netbooks, especially my Lenovo S10e and its 1024 x 576 screen.
That Netbook's been gathering dust since that 2013 story, but a few weeks back I found myself in need of a spare computer to serve as a data mule carrying data to the cloud. Microsoft seemed only too happy to let me upgrade the Netbook to Windows 10, so I gave it a try.
I must say works rather nicely. The upgrade required a single download and about an hour of work. Once that was behind me, the single core of the computer's 1.6 GHz Atom N270 did a reasonable job running Windows 10. The machine doesn't exactly zip through its day, but nor have I been left waiting for hourglasses to stop turning screens to refresh or apps to act.
Importantly, the machine's 1024 x 576-pixel 10.1-inch screen is no hindrance to Windows 10.
As we've discussed elsewhere, Windows 10 is a worthy upgrade that makes Windows sensible again. That experience repeats on the S10e.
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If you do not have wireless internet access or are unwilling to have a gmail account, quite impossible. Chromebooks require internet access to either set up or run an existing google account, or they are essentially a light source and nothing else.
I am currently evaluating a reset customer’s chromebook. It demands a google login... and just sits there not allowing any further action until one is provided.
Bloody piece of 5#1t...
People are able to install Linux on some Chromebooks. Google the model and see, you might get lucky.
I did. You need to install a dual-boot loader to switch between the Chrome OS or another (usually on a removable drive) one, so no, you can not remove Chrome and replace it with a more usable one at the moment.
So for now, it’s a light-source and a fairly weak one at that.
This one came with a stripped-down version of Windoze 7, but never ran it.
Reformatted it immediately with Xubuntu/xfce and it's been running like a champ ever since.
bkmk
Nice!!
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