Small screen, full-OS laptops for $300 at a time before the iPad/iOS era of dumbing down computers. I wrote most of my undergrad thesis on a Dell Mini, with STATA installed for regression analysis. 9-inch screen, 1 GB RAM, 1GHz Intel Atom was plenty powerful for handling office work and watching Youtube. Its battery life was actually better than most high TDP Intel laptops, and games up to 2003-04 worked very well on it.
Small screen, full-OS laptops for $300 at a time before the iPad/iOS era of dumbing down computers. I wrote most of my undergrad thesis on a Dell Mini, with STATA installed for regression analysis. 9-inch screen, 1 GB RAM, 1GHz Intel Atom was plenty powerful for handling office work and watching Youtube. Its battery life was actually better than most high TDP Intel laptops, and games up to 2003-04 worked very well on it.