#“Android Running Perfectly on an EeePC Netbook. Totally Mad.”
This just totally blew me away. I grabbed the ISO of Android X86, "burned" it onto USB stick, booted it on an ancient 700Mhz EeepC 701 Surf and 5 minutes after the initial download, it was running. Almost flawlessly.
Only issues I've run into so far are Wifi giving a bit of grief (LAN fine) and some text entry playing silly buggers. There is also no Android Market but there are ways around that.
The amazing thing is the speed. The EeePC absolutely flies with Android and this is on a "Live USB", it should be even faster if I do a full SSD install. Also using a touchpad actually works fine and the lack of touchscreen doesn't feel odd. It really makes me wonder what the point of the Chromebook is.
So if you have an old Netbook on which Windows crawls and Linux is just not your cup of tea, try this out. YouTube, GMail, everything works fine. I think I'll be handing this old machine over to one of the younger kids as soon as I suss the Flash situation.