Acer Aspire One D255.
I bought it quite some time ago and then wondered if it liked coffee. As it didn't, I bought a cheap D522. After spending about 6 months in the airing cupboard the D255 decided to start working again and I got brave and after trying many different distros decided that Linuxmint was my favourite, so used it as my
throw it in the rucksack and join me on my trips round the UK and France, on my motorcycle.
Eventually the wireless bit stopped working and then the cable bit became intermittent, so it became my backup device. Having since bought a Lenovo Yoga 300 - it was cheap! - and some hard drives, I pretty much forgot about the D255, until a month or so ago.
I went back to trying many different distros, many of which wouldn't even load - Atom chip? - before settling on, um, well, y'know. And it works great, if a little slowly at times - when I think it's probably swapping. (I put an extra Gig of Ram into the D522 and I guess that the D255 would greatly benefit from the same).
Now to open it up and hope the intermittent Internet is caused by things having been 'jiggled' around too much.
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jon@jon-AOD255:~$ inxi -F
System:
Host: jon-AOD255 Kernel: 5.0.0-27-generic x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 Distro: Linux Mint 19.2 Tina
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Acer product: AOD255 v: V3.10(DDR3)
serial: <root required>
Mobo: Acer model: JE02_PT v: V3.10(DDR3) serial: <root required>
BIOS: Acer v: 3.10(DDR3) date: 11/17/2010
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 21.2 Wh condition: 21.6/48.8 Wh (44%)
CPU:
Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Atom N550 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
L2 cache: 512 KiB
Speed: 998 MHz min/max: 1000/1500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 998 2: 998
3: 998 4: 998
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics
driver: i915 v: kernel
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: intel
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1024x600~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Pineview M v: 1.4 Mesa 19.0.8
Audio:
Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.0.0-27-generic
Network:
Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet driver: atl1c
IF: enp1s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 1c:75:08:3c:22:b7
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 232.89 GiB used: 5.68 GiB (2.4%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MK2565GSX size: 232.89 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 227.28 GiB used: 5.67 GiB (2.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0
ID-2: swap-1 size: 980.0 MiB used: 3.5 MiB (0.4%) fs: swap dev: /dev/dm-1
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 50.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 165 Uptime: 22m Memory: 970.9 MiB used: 346.6 MiB (35.7%)
Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.32
Modern's good, but not all old things are bad.
Jon.
as is also the case with mine (mind the pun) several lugs have broken off so either I'll fix this or just turn the machine into a server or something. Shame as I have the (rarer, seemingly) N570 @ 1.66GHz & performance is pretty good considering the 2GB RAM limit. I did try 4GB modules but no POST.