<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">I have really been crushing on the ASUs XenBook's lately. They have an interesting array of them now and most of them are some pretty sexy machines.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Zenbook-13-3-Inch-Ultraslim-Aluminum-Available/dp/B00SGS7ZH4">http://www.amazon.com/Zenbook-13-3-Inch-Ultraslim-Aluminum-Available/dp/B00SGS7ZH4</a> is the cheaper one i have been looking at. they have a more fully featured version that has Nvidia 960M graphics and a 4k touchscreeen but thats about 1700 right now. </font><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Keith Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:techlists@phpcoderusa.com" target="_blank">techlists@phpcoderusa.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">If you are only going to use it for mail and surfing the web, anything that runs Windows 8 will run better with Linux on it.<br>
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i3 / 4GB RAM would be my preference<br>
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I think at the bare minimum I'd want at least a Pentium with 2GB of RAM.<br>
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Looks like the Celeron is a dual core and the Pentium is a quad core.<br>
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Here is the list of Celeron laptops.<br>
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<a href="http://www.dell.com/us/p/laptops?~ck=mn#!facets=226291~0~19561351,55846~0~14739528&p=1" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.dell.com/us/p/laptops?~ck=mn#!facets=226291~0~19561351,55846~0~14739528&p=1</a><br>
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Pentiums are more expensive.<br>
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<a href="http://www.dell.com/us/p/laptops?~ck=mn#!facets=226291~0~14720657,55846~0~14739528&p=1" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.dell.com/us/p/laptops?~ck=mn#!facets=226291~0~14720657,55846~0~14739528&p=1</a><br>
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I've noticed that some of the cheaper Laptops do not come with an optical drive (DVD) and I noticed my Dell laptop does not have a microphone in so I assume Skype calls are out... have not researched so I might be wrong.<br>
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On 2015-07-05 08:09, <a href="mailto:joe@actionline.com" target="_blank">joe@actionline.com</a> wrote:<br>
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What does this esteemed brain trust recommend as<br>
the best options for an inexpensive ultralight to<br>
run Linux?<br>
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Probably an 11 or 13" screen, thin, and light<br>
weight (i.e. at or under 3 pounds)<br>
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