I owned an HP 2133 mini-note netbook for a little while around 2008-2010. It was sporting a VIA C7-M with a VIA Chrome 9 gpu. Honestly the cpu was slow, probably slower than the equivalent Atom of that era but the Linux version of that laptop (sold with Linux Enterprise) made up for it with 2GB as standard which was glorious for a netbook at the time.
The keyboard and trackpad was also way ahead of the competition (ie other netbooks). The GPU was the biggest issue as VIA only built a proprietary driver for the kernel that was used at the time by Suse Enterprise. Thanksfully someone quickly wrote an openchrome driver that allowed me to install my distro of choice at the time with a newer kernel.
I think it would still be a decent portable machine to write stuff and or use as a portable terminal emulator to connect to remote machines but completely unusable to do anything else. I remember resizing photos to create thumbnails for a web gallery was taking ages and that was with much fewer megapixel than today.
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I owned an HP 2133 mini-note netbook for a little while around 2008-2010. It was sporting a VIA C7-M with a VIA Chrome 9 gpu. Honestly the cpu was slow, probably slower than the equivalent Atom of that era but the Linux version of that laptop (sold with Linux Enterprise) made up for it with 2GB as standard which was glorious for a netbook at the time.
The keyboard and trackpad was also way ahead of the competition (ie other netbooks). The GPU was the biggest issue as VIA only built a proprietary driver for the kernel that was used at the time by Suse Enterprise. Thanksfully someone quickly wrote an openchrome driver that allowed me to install my distro of choice at the time with a newer kernel.
I think it would still be a decent portable machine to write stuff and or use as a portable terminal emulator to connect to remote machines but completely unusable to do anything else. I remember resizing photos to create thumbnails for a web gallery was taking ages and that was with much fewer megapixel than today.