Netbooks pretty much died out, replaced by tablets or even smartphones. If you're looking for something light-duty and can run your apps in the cloud, you might look at a ChromeBook. It has an industrial strength Chrome browser, of course, but if you don't have readily available broadband or wireless it's pretty much a brick with a keyboard. ;-) On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Ken Restivo<ken(a)restivo.org> wrote: > It's time to finally retire my 2008-vintage EEE 1000 netbook, and get one with a faster processor and dual cores. > > I won't need it for music-- the old one was plenty powerful enough for what I was doing anyway-- but I need it for work, and, java runs like an absolute pig on the old EEE (as does Firefox, and Chromium, and just about anything modern). > > I have come to love the layout of this old EEE though, the keyboard, the form-factor, and its low current consumption (about 1A @12v). So I'd like to keep those as similar as possible. If I could upgrade the processor and RAM and keep everything else, I would. > > So the EEE 1215N looks pretty good, and if I swap out its spinning-rust-platter drive with a cheap SSD, I can probably get the current consumption down. > > But I worry. I worry about graphics card not working, wifi not working, sound not working, sleep not working, etc. > > I looked at the DebianEEE wiki and it seems like not a lot has happened there in years. > > Any advice on a fast (approaching laptop performance) netbook? > > -ken