![]() It was also part of a larger category called “netbooks,” and we were all made to know what netbooks were. Windows getting shown up by Linux was not allowed, so Microsoft did some Microsoft maneuvering, and by January 2008 the Eee PC was running Windows XP instead. ![]() (We hadn’t invented the phrase “cloud services” yet.) ![]() Spoonauer: “Pound for pound, the best value-priced notebook on the planet.”Īgain, this was a weirdo little two-pound plastic laptop that ran a custom Linux distro that was basically a front for various websites. It originally ran a custom Linux operating system that reviewers loved ( Laptop Mag’s Mark Spoonauer said it was “ten times simpler to use than any Windows notebook”) and was generally heralded as a new kind of computer with tremendous mass appeal. The second, obviously more important product was the $399 Eee PC 701. There were two products that arrived in 2007 that fundamentally changed computing: one, of course, was the iPhone. Which is great, because it made me think about the Eee PC, which was either one of the greatest short-lived success stories in tech history or a collective delusion shared by a handful of late 2000s tech bloggers that never actually happened. There’s an Apple event next week, and it’s looking fairly likely that we’ll see updated models of the iPad Pro and perhaps the iPad Mini.
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