The new toy is here!

"If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent" (essextee) 02/11/2019 at 21:31 • Filed to: computerlopnik, compuper

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I’ve done some things to it that purists may not be too happy w ith.

Overall the OS seems pretty stable. It is slow as fudge though, mostly because Android is using 70% of the 1GB RAM in this thing just running. I have a bigger  stick in the mail that should cure that.

Future Heap Owner > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 02/11/2019 at 21:41

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So you *were* talking about Lunix!

Dogsatemypants > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 02/11/2019 at 21:44

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I rember my first computer ( just for me) had a whopping 512 mb of rdram and 164 mb in the graphics card. The first computer my family owned had 4mb if ram with a doubler compression  program.

and 100 more > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 02/11/2019 at 22:38

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Eeepc? I had one of those for a minute, it was fun for dinking around, but just way too short on RAM to be remotely useful.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > and 100 more 02/11/2019 at 22:51

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This is more of an experiment than anything. I was drunk and it was $30. If it works well I may spring for a fancier convertible touchscreen netbook and run Android on that.

I have a tablet to use when I travel but I can’t use it with a keyboard unless I have a table available, so really it’s just a bigger version of my phone and that’s just redundant. I wanted to see what android could be like for me in a traditional laptop form factor.

Plus, I was drunk. Did I mention that?

Spanfeller is a twat > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 02/11/2019 at 23:03

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I was drunk and it was $30.

We all know every good decision starts this way.

and 100 more > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 02/11/2019 at 23:09

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How is it with Android? What version are your running? It has to be an X86 build, right?

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > and 100 more 02/11/2019 at 23:16

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It’s x86 32bit, current version. Aside from the aforementioned slowness it’s runn ing well. Only issue I’m encountering is some gradient banding on the screen, but that may be due to the hardware being old enough that it can’t really su pport android.

jminer > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 02/12/2019 at 00:23

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I had an ASUS transformer tablet years ago that was awesome combination of a tablet and a keyboard, but it had a Tegra in it which would run circles around that first gen atom in that EEEP C.

I’ ve been thinking of starting to tinker with Chrome OS and see what that looks like in laptop format.  I’d run Android on a Raspberry PI before, that’s the king of the ‘it’s $30 fuck it’ experiment.  Those damn things litter my house, I buy one every other time I go to micro center...

random001 > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 02/12/2019 at 06:30

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fancier convertible touchscreen netbook and run Android on that

This is called a “Chromebook” in the parlance...