[mdlug] Looking for netbook

[Jeff Hanson]

Try eBay.  FWICT, the major Linux system sellers no longer carry any
netbooks.


On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Drew <drew4096 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am now ready to buy a machine - provided I can get the deal of the
> century.
>
> Looking for an x86 based netbook, 10 inch, maybe 11 inch. 1 gig will
> do for now, though it would be nice to be able to open it up and put a
> 2 gig chip in later. Needless to say everything on it should work with
> Linux and it needs to be able to boot off of USB; I've prepared a
> couple of flash drives for testing.
>
> I don't need an excessive amount of hard drive space however, at least
> not as much as new machines come with. Just enough hard drive for the
> machine to do its job (hold a few loopback iso images, some swap
> space, and a couple of OS installations - I'm running an 80 gig drive
> on the desktop right now even though I have larger drives available.
> 40 will probably be enough.)
>
> Before I start chasing Craigslist ads, anyone have a good lead?
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