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Ask HN: Cheap ($300ish) netbook/laptop recommendation for a college student?
I built a beast Gaming PC this summer, and with some sidejobs I can afford a better netbook for the next few years of college.
Any recommendations for a decent netbook? This netbook would primarily be for note taking at school and light programming/web browsing. OS doesn't matter, as long as I can boot a *nix distro, but windows is fine too.
I'm a junior in CS for all that matters as well.
- minthd 11y agoDo you prefer a larger display ? if so i heard that dell recently released low-cost , large screen ~14"/15" laptops .
- ghrifter 11y agoThat's a perfect screen size - anything from 13" to 15.6" is fine with me. I'll take a look at Dell. I've seen a lot of Lenovo recommendations for what I'm looking for but after Superfish, I'm not keen on a Lenovo.
- walterbell 11y agoHow about a used Lenovo x220? Around 2-300 on ebay. Old Thinkpads have good keyboards and are reliable.
- nwrk 11y ago+1 for lenovo x220 / x230 or if want fancy screen check toshiba chromebook 2