Thanks for replies, think the atom I had was single core, not sure if it had HT, but was okay, I didn’t have a desktop or anything else as an alternative at the time, but with how prices are I think a dual core or the quads are a must, after something that runs windows.
Will it matter if it had whatever it’s intel graphics is or should I look for the ION nvidia type? Did miss out on a mini pc with both a dual atom and ion, didn’t think it be good for games so didn’t buy it, obviously not the need for gaming on one now... keep seeing loads of those Eee Pc nettops for cheap but they all have that 4gb ssd rubbish, the proper ones seem hard to find.
Very glad you not made a stupid mistake to buy very old mini pc with dual atom CPU and Nvidia ION GPU or cheap very old Eee PC with 4GB SSD or a proper very old Eee PC with 320GB HDD, Intel GMA 3150 and Nvidia ION 2 GPUs at very silly high price. All these PCs you looked at are absolutely rubbish and useless at downloading, streaming and Kodi.
My first tablet was Samsung Q1 UMPC with 900MHz Intel Celeron M CPU, 512MB DDR2, 40GB HDD and Intel GMA 900 GPU. It was great at downloading and streaming long time ago but when Internet sites switched to hardware H264 about 5 years ago, GMA 900 cant do hardware H264 and a single core Celeron M CPU was very struggled to decoded H264 and took forever at downloading and updating Windows 7. Absolutely useless so then I saw Linx 10 launched with trade in offers for old tablet PC so I bought it and traded my old tablet PC.
Of course it does matter when you look at PC spec, you should stop look for very old mini pc, nettop or laptop contained old slow single band wifi, slow ethernet, old Bluetooth 2.0/3.0, very old GPUs like Intel GMA 3150, Nvidia ION and Nvidia ION 2 because they did not have hardware H264 and HEVC decoders/encoders so all these GPUs are useless at streaming and very old single or dual core Atom CPUs cant decoded H264 and HEVC at 30/60fps smoothly properly on internet or Kodi.
I had very good look around and I suggested you to look for Cherry Trail PCs that can handle hardware H264 and HEVC up to 4K UHD, I found many Z8350 mini pc and nettop cheaper than very old Eee PCs. 2 years ago my sister got very lovely second hand HP Pavilion x2 11.6 inch Convertible laptop PC which has much better spec than old Eee PC with quad core Pentium N3510 CPU that is faster than my quad core Atom Z3735F, 4GB RAM, 64GB m2 SSD, stunning 11.6 inch IPS touchscreen and dual batteries lasted up to 10 hours so you could find some very cheap HP x2 laptops with 10 inch IPS touchscreen, quad core Atom x5 CPU, 2GB RAM, 32GB eMMC, dual band wifi, Gigabit ethernet, Bluetooth 4.0 Windows 10 and 12 hours battery. Or maybe you could look at Beelink Z83II mini pc with same spec without 10 inch IPS touchscreen and batteries a lot cheaper than a proper old Eee PC. Don't worry about small 32GB space, just plug in and download to, streaming from or install and playing from microSD or SSD/HDD/SSHD in USB dock. I been played The Witness installed from 256GB microSD on compute stick, amazing very fast tiny flash memory card.
