[PLUG] Linux Laptop Recommendation

Josiah Luscher sy at josiahluscher.com
Sun Nov 13 22:50:42 UTC 2016


Just my 2¢.  Shop first for speed, it's both the thing that costs and the thing that will make your computer last IMHO.

I paid the Windows tax and the spinning ferrous disk tax and got an ASUS X540L for ~$350.  If I did it again I'd get a better screen, it's fairly low resolution.

Good luck!

On November 11, 2016 11:46:26 PM PST, Michael Barnes <barnmichael at gmail.com> wrote:
>I may be in the market for a new, inexpensive laptop for Linux. Nothing
>fancy, but would like something relatively current. I'm looking for
>something fairly lightweight and small, in the 10-11 inch range. I'd
>like
>to completely wipe it and install a fresh Linux distro, probably Ubuntu
>to
>start with. I know in the past, the Asus eee laptop was fairly popular.
>I
>don't really want to spend a lot on this.
>
>Thanks for any ideas,
>Michael
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