[geeks] Best Cheap Netbook?

[Joshua D. Boyd]

Acer C7 is $200.  MrBill has one I believe. They are ChromeBooks, but can take 8 gigs of ram, and can run Ubuntu instead of ChromeOS.

William Barnett-Lewis <wlewisiii at gmail.com> wrote:

>Thanks for the pointer; it looks like a very good machine for the
>price. What I'm seeing is that something worth buying is pretty much
>out of my reach just now. Probably I'm just going to have to keep this
>one functional while trying to save up for something in this Acer's
>class.
>
>I should probably check which ones are known to play nicely with
>Xubuntu as well.
>
>Thank you for your time & answers.
>
>
>>Follow-up to earlier response:
>>
>>The 'net book' I really like is my Acer TimelineX model 1830T-68U11B.
>It has
>>an i7, 8 Gigs of RAM, HDMI. VGA video ports, an RJ-45 NIC and
>USB/eSATA port.
>>It has a very nice 11.6" display.
>>
>>I guess I paid about $450 on sale a whole ago, looks to be around $525
>now.
>>
>>http://blog.laptopmag.com/new-acer-aspire-timelinex-1830t-reviewed
>>
>>Lionel
>
>On Feb 2, 2013, at 1:30 PM, William Barnett-Lewis <wlewisiii at
>gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
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