Small and thin laptop $500 budget

ICantPickParts

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Hello, i was looking for a small and thin laptop hoping to put linux on it and it would be use for school so text docs, and some video watching and music. I would like it to have 4gb of ram and about 320 hhd and possible last for 5 hours if it is possible for 500$!
Thanks for any help!
 

ICantPickParts

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yeah i was looking at it. and its cheaper from Lenovo :)
http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:item.detail?GroupID=457&Code=59371845
 

legendkiller

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The one i suggested is only $30 more for an i7 with 750GB HDD with 24GB SSD with 8GB 1600MHz with also a USB 3.0 compared to the one you suggested with i3 4GB memory and 500GB HDD. problem with the one I suggested is a refurbished one but i'd take my chances. Also if your getting a laptop, i'd suggest looking for "UltraBook" because it's slim and packed everything you needed.
 

ICantPickParts

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Hello, I am just like you and wanted a small Linux laptop for school so I went with a x201e which cost about $300. Let me warn you this laptop has a gma which means you won't be able to play many if any games on it. But there are a few that you can get to work on it for example I was able to get VN, and world of Warcraft on it! I was able to get it to run for about 6 hours when doing a paper in the car, but if you want to watch videos unplugged it will last about 2-3hours.
Here is a link to the laptop
http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-X201E-DH01-11-6-Inch-Laptop-Black/dp/B009F1I16K

(sorry if it isn't hyperlinked I was typing this on my iPad :p )
 

legendkiller

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Haswell came out, could of gotten one lol...