I am using Trisquel 5.5 on a Gateway LT4004u. It has: 10.1 inch LED backlit display 1024 x 600 resolutions 0.3 mega pixel webcam and microphone Intel Atom Cedar Trail 1.6 GHz N2600 Intel GMA 3600 integrated graphics card. 1 GB of DDR3 RAM 250 GB HDD ~$250 (USD)
The internal wireless card is a Broadcom chip, so no FOSS driver support there. I use a Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter for GNU / Linux from https://www.thinkpenguin.com .
It is slower at doing big compiles, but it is pretty snappy at most other times. I use it as my main mobile development machine (I do web work) so it handles running Node.js + MongoDB just fine.
I also use it to work with Arduinos and my thing-o-matic. Again, after the initial compile, it is fast enough.
