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A comment on Ask HN: Is there a Market for low-spec laptops with long battery life?.

Re:Ask HN: Is there a Market for low-spec laptops with long ... by DanBC on Sunday June 25, 2017 @04:45PM (#14632068)
There are plenty of machines like the Asus X205ta.

Small, low specs, 10 hour battery life.

Some of them use weird chipsets or have low ram or 64 bit processers and 32 bit uefi, so installing linux isn't always as simple as it normally is.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there a Market for low-spec laptops with long ... by bananicorn on Sunday June 25, 2017 @05:15PM (#14632228)
For me personally that's a bit of a bummer, but as long as installing linux isn't impossible and there's no malicious firmware blobs which could possibly brick the thing, it's not a complete no-go. I also prefer to test my software on the actual low-end hardware instead of VMs.
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