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You can get an entire functioning laptop for under $100 these days. http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Acer-Aspire-One-Cloudbook-11-AO1-131-C7
by bydo 11y ago
You can get an entire functioning laptop for under $100 these days.
http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Acer-Aspire-One-Cloudbook-11-AO1-131-C7DW-Signature-Edition-Laptop/productID.323774600 http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Acer-Asp...
It doesn't run Windows 10 very well, with only 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage (neither of which are user-upgradeable), but is actually a surprisingly nice with a light Linux distro.
- viewer5 11y agoHoly cow, I never knew that was a thing! Do you have one? I need a cheap laptop/tablet/something that runs well enough for PDFs with ~200 pages (for pen-and-paper RPGs) and that's about my only use case. My poor little lenovo T60 from 2007 is just not up to the task, even after I took Windows off and put on Mint.
- tracker1 11y agoYou should be able to find similar hardware in Chromebooks as well... though not sure about PDF usage, they've been great for my parents/grandparents. Many of them you can load a full linux distro on.
- oAlbe 11y agoTake Mint off too and try with Lubuntu or Antergos, the latter with the XFCE Desktop Environment (or OpenBox, but I never tried this one personally).
- Animats 11y agoThat seems to be "out of stock" or "discontinued" from Microsoft, or $189 at Acer. What PC World calls a "budget laptop" is from at $178 to $450.[1] There are lots of low-end tablets below $50, but add a keyboard and the price takes a big jump. [1] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2371334,00.asp http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2371334,00.asp