With increasingly bloated updates, Ubuntu got replaced by MX Linux 18, which improved matters, but with the little CPU struggling more and more, [Igor] retired the netbook in 2019. That is ...

One of the most popular of these was Asus' Eee PC (pronounced E-P-C ... The Windows version of the 901 (There is a Linux version too.) comes with 12GB of solid state storage.

What exactly was it that made netbooks so great, and where did they go? An Asus EEE PC shown here running Linux. You could run anything on them! Because they were real, full-fat computers.