What about a used laptop?
Re:Who killed the netbook?
by krakensden on Friday June 24, 2011 @10:23AM
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They're almost always broken, failing, or have no battery life left (and you can't get replacements). It's much more trouble than it's worth.
I do keep looking for a good netbook-like solution for recreational coding and writing while traveling. If it can run emacs/gcc/X11 as well as a 1998-era laptop, I'd be satisfied, but I can't quite find anything that's cheap enough for that almost-throw-away use.