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		th0ma5 on Oct 31, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Joey Hess' minimal approach I've been looking for a replacement for my Mini 9 and this seems to be about the only thing out there. Microsoft sure has strong armed everyone to make things with regular HDDs because they needed to run Windows... I actually went into Microcenter last year looking for a SSD netbook, and they practically chased me out of the store, and added $50 to everything that wasn't Windows (which they didn't have the prices on anyway). Does anyone know of a company that has Netbooks without Windows on them at a $250 price point? Dell's Linux pages are non-existent. I can't believe that something I bought in 2008 is now double the price.

fmstephe on Oct 31, 2012 | [–]

I have been searching for this laptop too. The only solution I found was to dual boot my chromebook. Works beautifully and the hardware is cheap for what it brings to the table.

krakensden on Oct 31, 2012 | [–]

I was going to recommend Zareason, but it looks like they dropped their netbook line :(

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