[TriLUG] Advice on an ultra-light notebook

[Kevin J.]

The Everex Cloudbook is coming out this month and will be available at Wal-Mart(.com), no less, for about $400: http://www.everex.com/ and http://gizmodo.com/342808/everex-cloudbook-coming-to-walmartcom

For about $80 more you can get the Nokia 810 with a touchscreen and built-in GPS: http://www.nokiahowto.com/link?cid=PLAIN_TEXT_607318

Both run on Linux. If I had $500 to spend, I'd put it on that Nokia, but that's just my .02 cents.

Kevin

Andrew Perrin <clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu> wrote: It's getting to be time to replace my laptop, which is currently a Sharp 
Actius PC-MM10. I like it a lot - particularly its extremely light weight 
and ease of carrying. However, battery life is poor.  Any advice? I need 
it to run linux competently and preferably have built-in both ethernet and 
wi-fi. Built-in bluetooth would be a plus, but not an important one. Very 
light and good battery life are the most important.

Thanks,
Andy

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Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu
Associate Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_
University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA


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