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Hi, I'm looking for a really small and portable laptop to have on my desk, around 10" for the screen or around that, thickness doesn't matter much but as cheap as possible. I won't be running any games or anything on it, just Discord and some chrome tabs with YouTube and many this forum open, so I don't have to tab out of my games just to chart with my friends, I know there's a discord phone app but uploading photos and over all experience isnt that good IMO and it's annoying to open my phone all the time. I want it to have 4-8GB of ram and it needs to have an ether net port,  that's the only thing I really care for with it and it's just to make it a bit snappy, I can upgrade that myself tho. Budget is >$100 preferably, not sure of this kind of thing exists but if it does please tell me, I'm fine with used too if you have any suggestions on what to look for! Thanks for any replies and any help :D

I spent $2500 on building my PC and all i do with it is play no games atm & watch anime at 1080p(finally) watch YT and write essays...  nothing, it just sits there collecting dust...

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i have this http://www.cnet.com/products/acer-aspire-one-d255/specs/ which i picked up on ebay for about $40, unfortunately max 2gb, look up netbooks on ebay, i think the acer 722 series was 4gb with an AMD processor. and 11 inch. this is all old tech but my acer still works well as a surfing pc while i render stuff on my main pc

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5 hours ago, papapoi said:

i have this http://www.cnet.com/products/acer-aspire-one-d255/specs/ which i picked up on ebay for about $40, unfortunately max 2gb, look up netbooks on ebay, i think the acer 722 series was 4gb with an AMD processor. and 11 inch. this is all old tech but my acer still works well as a surfing pc while i render stuff on my main pc

 

5 hours ago, legopc said:

Look for something like a x201 on ebay, great little laptops.

 

5 hours ago, HatsuneMilku said:

I can only suggest you to look for used computers. I can't think of anything new that price except android tablets.

found an Asus Eee pc 1018P for $60, it has an atom 550 in it which is a dual core with hyper therading at 1.5Ghz, seems decent enough, might try to get that down to $50 because its from 2010 but im probably getting it :) thanks for the suggestions guys

I spent $2500 on building my PC and all i do with it is play no games atm & watch anime at 1080p(finally) watch YT and write essays...  nothing, it just sits there collecting dust...

Builds:

The Toaster Project! Northern Bee!

 

The original LAN PC build log! (Old, dead and replaced by The Toaster Project & 5.0)

Spoiler

"Here is some advice that might have gotten lost somewhere along the way in your life. 

 

#1. Treat others as you would like to be treated.

#2. It's best to keep your mouth shut; and appear to be stupid, rather than open it and remove all doubt.

#3. There is nothing "wrong" with being wrong. Learning from a mistake can be more valuable than not making one in the first place.

 

Follow these simple rules in life, and I promise you, things magically get easier. " - MageTank 31-10-2016

 

 

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good deal, i have a the 7in version and even that is still kicking, funny though it only came with 4gb hdd, lol , those were the day when you could fit an os on less than 4gb56d5f6ef5cd7f_IMG_20160301_1005531.thumb

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22 hours ago, papapoi said:

good deal, i have a the 7in version and even that is still kicking, funny though it only came with 4gb hdd, lol , those were the day when you could fit an os on less than 4gb

well i picked it up about an hour ago and its working great :D

I spent $2500 on building my PC and all i do with it is play no games atm & watch anime at 1080p(finally) watch YT and write essays...  nothing, it just sits there collecting dust...

Builds:

The Toaster Project! Northern Bee!

 

The original LAN PC build log! (Old, dead and replaced by The Toaster Project & 5.0)

Spoiler

"Here is some advice that might have gotten lost somewhere along the way in your life. 

 

#1. Treat others as you would like to be treated.

#2. It's best to keep your mouth shut; and appear to be stupid, rather than open it and remove all doubt.

#3. There is nothing "wrong" with being wrong. Learning from a mistake can be more valuable than not making one in the first place.

 

Follow these simple rules in life, and I promise you, things magically get easier. " - MageTank 31-10-2016

 

 

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