7dayshop.com have some refurbished Acer Aspire One notebooks at £179.99 which might fit the bill. They're nice little machines - I have a similarly specced Lenovo Edge for mobile use, and they happily run Xubuntu. I would find a cheap 64GB or 128GB SSD to improve battery life if you were going to be out for any length of time.
s/ On 4 October 2014 15:25, Barry Drake <ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com> wrote: > Hi there ..... I just got back after some time away using my netbook. > It is a Samsung N150 currently running Lubuntu 14.04 as it had become far > too slow on recent Ubuntu releases. I want to upgrade to something faster > that can run Ubuntu 14.10 at a fair speed. The thing is, I don't want to > go much larger in physical size. 10" or so is ideal for me. I tried an > Android tablet, but really prefer the netbook. I could get by with a > tablet running Ubuntu if there were such a thing, but I can't understand > why netbooks are now in a minority. I could possibly go for a low-end > Windows netbook if I knew for certain that it was fully compatible with > Ubuntu. Obviously I prefer not to pay for an OS that I'm going to wipe! > > Any thoughts or suggestions? I don't do gaming - I just want something > that will do e-mails, internet and documents. I use cloud sync for > documents and I keep Thunderbird and Firefox in sync with my desktop. > > Kind regards, Barry. > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood "TBA are particularly glib"
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