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You must have had one of the better ones. Most of them were literally not usable.

Even YouTube was pretty choppy on most of these things. And the screen resolution so bad that web browsing was terrible on them. A lot of dialog boxes wouldn't even fit on the screen, leaving you stuck and unable to change settings or even save files in a lot of situations. The drives were slow in most of them too.

Not to say that they couldn't be better, but they were rated poorly because most of them really were trash.






Asus ones like 1215B were quite good, mine lasted between 2009 and 2024, now a tablet has taken over its role as travel computing device.



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