We finally found a really small netbook PC thrown out. It's one of the small Acer Aspire series of netbooks from I guess 2010 - 2012. It runs a starter edition of Windows 7 and is quite nifty in a way.
It's not the fastest as it packs an Intel Atom processor, and I've upgraded it to 2GB of ram from the 1Gb stick it did have. It does the internet, but really slowly and I've finally added the printer to it.
The downsides are the BIOS is password protected and will need to be unlocked before I can switch boot order and see if a Linux will run. It has no CD so maybe a puppy linux live usb with the HD removed, as it can run in ram, will do the trick.
So the original owner was on some sort of scholarship to Cambodia as part of a gap year / sixth form work. They had dropbox and a few other storage solutions there as well as an expired Graham Norton antivirus.
Mostly videos of a few places, but largely mates and dorm rooms and such. Pretty normie stuff, and a typical bird behaviour. If you like no landscape shots and plenty of mates posing in front of things, including a few clips of them round the pool, then this your thing. No pron and the owner is pretty homely looking to boot.
I've been adding programs to it, to get it into shape including looking for a non adobe PDF reader as my go to favourite, fails to install. Will I use it for much? god knows, its small enough to not have any CD drive built in so will need an external drive to take advantage of anything. Definitely do have the drives to take advantage though. So there is that.
All in all, its not bad but hardly essential. Hopefully it will linux ok.
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