I use the original HP Stream 11 for $199 new (much improved now - more RAM (2->4GB) and better screen) as general machine for kids with Ubuntu. It has been running great for over year and half, lasts about 8 -10 hours on battery, depending what the kiddos are up to.
Much better & cheap machine than the eePCs in my opinion, no fan, OK keyboard, light and very sturdy. Can do anything the kids want, office. printing, graphics manipulation, plays YouTube and Netflix, it is great at browsing.... The storage is big enough in combination with networked storage/GoogleDrive/ownCloud/NFS/SMB. It is not upgradeable as far as I know (I did not feel the need to open it). http://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/Laptops/hp-stream---11-y010nr-%28energy-s tar%29-x7v29ua-aba I hope that this is what you are looking for (as long as you do not mind the blue color), -Tomas On Fri, 2016-11-11 at 23:46 -0800, Michael Barnes 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 > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
