[geeks] Best Cheap Netbook?

[Lionel Peterson]

There are some great near-netbooks with i3 and i7 CPUs.

I have an Acer TimelineX that has a great 11" screen, i7 CPU, and 8 gigs of
DDR3 Ram. I think it was about $400 when I got it - it might be worth looking
for one used...

Lionel

On Feb 2, 2013, at 1:30 PM, William Barnett-Lewis <wlewisiii at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm currently running an 11 year old Dell C640. 1.8 ghz P4M. I've
> maxed it to 2 gb & 2 120GB drives and have Xubuntu 12.10 on it.
>
> I run out of ram & cpu regularly, especially if I make the mistake of
> firing up Photoshop CS2 under Wine after Chrome has been leaking
> memory for awhile. Games are essentially not playable. That 2.4 gb is
> getting cramped too between being a photographer & having too big a
> music collection again. The hinges are loose too so I have to lean the
> top against something.
>
> The other problem though is no budget really. With a lot of this and
> that I can probably scrape up a couple of hundred over the next few
> months. I do need portability. So with that thought in mind, I'm
> looking into cheap, probably used, notebooks/netbooks  that while
> hardly cutting edge but still be more than what I've got now.
>
> Any thoughts or suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
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> like no-one is watching.
>                Alex White
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