The original netbook

[Guitar John]

I've been looking into getting a netbook recently. About 10 or 11 years ago, I owned an HP Jornada 820 (http://www.winceonline.com/jornada2.html). I was on the road quite a bit and this thing kept me organized. When I got home, I synced it with my main computer.

It ran WinCE. That was back when I ran Win98 at home. The Jornada had stripped down versions of MS Office. I also had a banking program, a chess game, and a few other odds & ends.

Netbooks have come a long way. Ubuntu dispensed with the Netbook Edition. Some folks can use a netbook as their only computer. The benchmark (http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Atom+N570+%40+1.66GHz) on the System76 Starling NetBook (http://www.system76.com/product_info.php?cPath=28&products_id=105) beat the a couple of the computers (http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Celeron+M+530+%40+1.73GHz) here at my house.

Anyone else ever have one of these, or something similar?

[toupeiro]

I still have a working version of one of these, which predates even the jornada. Xubuntu runs on it. I think the one in the picture is a 100CT, which didn't have many differences at all from mine. I had the 110CT.

http://i3.ebayimg.com/01/i/04/d2/dd/d8_1_sbl.JPG

[Guitar John]

Mine took a fall and shattered. I remember the keyboard being rather cramped. How is that one to type on?

[toupeiro]

Mine took a fall and shattered. I remember the keyboard being rather cramped. How is that one to type on?

Not for major data entry. :) I have large hands, but after trying to type on iphones and blackberries, this was nothing. :lolflag: