[RndTbl] small laptop for linux

[Trevor Cordes]

On 2023-12-20 Hartmut W Sager wrote:
> Overall, the (former) netbooks would be your thing.  However, I don't
> think the netbooks existed near enough to the present to still be
> useful (if a used one were available).

Ya, netbook-y-ish form factor would be ok, except I don't want the
useless KB and joke of a battery and performance.  A lot of these
"educational" laptops are 11", and that would be the lower limit.
However, I'd need a real CPU, and decent rez (1400 is ok).  The edu
laptops are all celeron N-something, which is fine for me in XFCE.  And
they can still do VT stuff.

The big question is how far others have gotten with putting Linux on
these things... so many MUUG members just stick with Windows!  (grrr
people!)

I'm also very curious about ARM "always on" Windows laptops that were
appearing a few years back, but seem to have never taken off.  And they
never seemed to be cheap even though they should be as the CPU is a tiny
fraction of the price of an Intel CPU.  I don't mean the "Chromebook"
or "*Pad" class: I mean fully-fledged laptops that just happen to run
an ARM CPU.  With many distros having ARM support, it would be a fun
thing to try.  But the performance would have to be up there with a
few-year-old celeron.  (The newest Macs would qualify except they are
probably 4X what I want to spend and heavily locked down and AFAIK the
Linux support is still WIP.)