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MarkusWandeltoday at 5:00 PM2 repliesview on HN

"It's a real Mac" - I get that!

I remember a whole slew of inexpensive netbooks and the like that were technically Windows XP or Windows 7 machines, but came with a dumbed-down "starter" OS, not enough RAM, only a 32-bit CPU in an era were 64 bits were already becoming standard - the sum of which amounted to a barely usable imitation of a real Windows machine and as a result most of these became garage sale fodder pretty quickly.


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tfehringtoday at 5:40 PM

I thought I was so clever for buying one of those things for like $190 and putting Lubuntu on it to make it usable. It worked - but the joke was still on me when it died a year later.

DauntingPear7today at 7:29 PM

This is pretty much a repackaged M1 air from 2020, so it’s a competent machine

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