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Related: Culture Forums, Support Forums$79 computer
Fits in palm of hand and provides the basics -
http://phys.org/news/2016-01-palm-sized-emerging-nation.html
hunter
(38,264 posts)I quit buying computers long ago.
Repairable computers, or computers others consider obsolete, are essentially free in my community. I'll replace a broken or missing hard drive with an SD card, install Linux, and I'm good to go.
I did buy a $35 Raspberry Pi to play with. It's similar to the palm-sized computer in this post, but no case.
There's a newer $5 Pi that's just been released, but it's only got 512 MB RAM and one USB port. If you want more stuff, you've got to build it out yourself.
Such a machine is still powerful enough to browse DU and other sites that don't go crazy with the Javascript and video advertisements.
There are quite a few Pi clones, and similar little Made-in-China boards too.
I'm posting this morning on a little ARM powered machine running ChromeOS, which is google's version of Linux.