If you subscribe to the Staples weekly ads you will find that occasionally they offer some really good deals on laptops for under $400. Especially around back to school, black Friday, and Christmas. I think Office Depot / Office Max has the same types of ads.



On 2018-06-16 08:19, techli...@phpcoderusa.com wrote:
Here is what we know:

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A friend needs a cheap Linux laptop for light duty business work:
Libre Office, printing via USB connection, WIFI, email, and light browsing.

His business (piano tuning) hangs on this.
He would like the provider to be established with a decent reputation,
whether the computer is new or refurbished.

His cap is $400 but he would prefer closer to $200 . . .
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If he is not doing any image manipulation and does not edit videos on
this machine then a cheap laptop would do it.  i3 or maybe an old duo
and 2 or more gigs of ram would make it happen.

What we do not know is why this person has a constraint of $400 and
would like to get down to $200.  Maybe this person is semi-retired and
does just enough piano tuning to supplement his income.














On 2018-06-15 22:31, Steve Litt wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 22:15:12 +0000
"Carruth, Rusty" <rusty.carr...@smartm.com> wrote:

Personally, 4G is not QUITE enough RAM.

I can get 4GB RAM to walk and talk if I use Openbox and equivalently
svelt software. Firefox and Nautilus need not apply.

But the OP is asking about a business computer, and in my opinion he
should buy an amount of RAM that will be useful 3 years from now. I'd
call that 16GB.

SteveT

Steve Litt
June 2018 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
http://www.troubleshooters.com/28


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