[NBLUG/talk] Cheap laptop capable of running Linux

[Robert P. Thille]

On Nov 21, 2013, at 11:48 PM, Zack Gold wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm wondering if anyone has had success with a very inexpensive ($250 or less) laptop capable of running Linux. I'm willing to go with something that is very, very old, if necessary. The device must have WiFi capabilities so that I can connect to the Internet. I'm probably going to leave the system without a GUI.

If you're willing to do a little work (and it doesn't really take much), you can get a Chromebook (~$200-$250, new) to run a more normal linux distro. For more work, you can flash the bios and have a really 'normal' laptop that pretty much any linux distro will install/run on.

Robert


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