[Liverpool] Anyone for a laptop (or two)?

[Sebastian Arcus]

For those of us who still use the dark ages device called a laptop, and 
specifically those after a small form factor one, a bunch of places 
online have just reduced one of the Acer Travelmate B113 models to 
£149.99. There are other Travelmate B113 models at higher price points.

This is an 11.6" machine.

Good points: slim and portable, nice keyboard, nice clickpad. It has 
full connectivity: 3 usb ports, SD card port, gigabit ethernet, VGA, 
HDMI - so it's a full featured and potentially useful machine. It is 
possible to buy a 6 cell battery for it for about £30 - which should 
give it about 7 hours runtime.

Bad: only 2GB of RAM, 320GB hdd and 3 hours on the original battery. 
Only USB 2.0 ports.

The processor is a Celeron 1007U, which scores just under 1500 on 
PCMark. As a comparison the original Intel Atom's were scoring about 
450, and the current quad core generation Atoms for small laptops is at 
about 1100-1200. The CPU is last year's architecture (Ivy Bridge) - but 
on the plus side, the whole machine should have far less 
incompatibilities when installing Linux - as the architecture has been 
around for a while.

I thought it might be useful to any members of the list looking for a 
(spare) laptop. A quick Google search should reveal the retailers with 
the low price.