[Wylug-discuss] Recommendation: Linux-compatible Netbook Under GBP 250?

[Simon Brown]

On Friday, November 25, 2011 4:45 PM, "Paul Brook"
<paul at codesourcery.com> wrote:
> A few points that spring to mind:
> 
> I'd avoid anything Android based.  These are almost certainly ARM based, 
> rather than a conventional x86.  While this isn't a bad thing per-se, it
> does 
> mean that you're dealing with random embedded hardware rather than a
> regular 
> PC architecture.  Android is nominally a linux kernel underneath but
> usually 
> includes significant closed source components so don't expect regular
> linux to 
> work on them without a lot of fairly involved hacking.
> 
> Aside from that there's very little variation in core netbook hardware.  
> They're all Atom based.  CPUs come in three variants:

It's just above price range at £300 but I'm thinking of getting one of
these
http://shop.lenovo.com/gbweb/gb/en/learn/products/laptops/ideapad/s-series/s205/index.html

It's an AMD e350 based netbook. I haven't done the research yet about
Linux compatibility, but I'm hopeful.

Simon