I can’t blame you there. I did the ‘give one, get one’ thing; and have fond memories of the screen’s unusual characteristics(and, while the little ‘ears’ were silly looking, the wifi performance was pretty decent; and it sure stood out in the coffee shop); but there just isn’t any pretending that a 433MHz Geode LX(AMD; but still substantially the Cyrix MediaGX-derived National Semiconductor core design, remember when people who weren’t Intel and AMD made x86s?), especially if it is also trying to run a not-terribly-stripped-down version of Fedora, just Is Not Fast.
I had a great time playing old-school CLI; and light web browsing was surprisingly possible; but I pity anyone who had to make a nontrivial graphical application play nice. To hit the price point, in 2007, they had to cut the specs pretty hard.
