Thanks for the suggestions. It's the overall dimensions I am bothered about. The Aspire One is about 25cm wide by 17cm deep. That's little over half an A4 sheet. These days thin is in, but the footprint is now around a whole A4 sheet.
The Aspire One and other netbooks had the perfect form-factor for me. Carrying every day, and moving countries every couple of years. Lenovo X220 is now an X250. Might be worth looking at, thanks. Still big, but better than a tablet. I have also identified the Dell XPS13, but they have temporarily stopped selling it with Ubuntu. Chromebooks are great. Cheap, disposable, and you can generally blow their brains out and install Linux. There's not much choice here in Korea though. :( Best wishes, Andrew On 27/07/2015, criggie <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27/07/15 09:19, Andrew wrote: >> I love my Acer Aspire One, but it's time for a new one. What are >> people buying for small-form-factor netbook equivalents these days? >> All I can find on Google are laments that netbooks are dead. :( >> >> I don't need super-fast, or super-powerful. I need small, light, and runs >> Linux. > > > Macbook air? slim, small and light. > > Macbook pro? All the hardware in a big laptop, and its not that big. > > Lenovo Thinkpad X220-ish ? More than a netbook but not a slab. > > > Of course none of those are "cheap" > > Are any of the chromebooks useful? Can they run linux? Disk space > might be the issue there - many of them are around the 16 GB internal > storage, same as my eee from 6 years ago. > > -- > Criggie > > http://criggie.org.nz/ > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
