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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I am personally something of an Acer
fan. I've bought both new and refurbished Acer machines ranging
from the Aspire netbooks to the full sized TravelMate laptops with
nary a complaint with any of them. In fact, I have an old Acer
TraveMate 4620z with 2GB of RAM that runs Ubuntu 13.10
beautifully. But because I enjoy playing 3D MMORPGs in WINE, the
graphics card isn't quite up to snuff. I got a new Acer to
replace it, but the old one still works great.<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">- N.C. Weber
Curator of the Afrodiseum
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.afrodiseum.com">http://www.afrodiseum.com</a></pre>
On 01/23/2014 07:41 AM, Jason Blum wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">My parents want to buy my two 11yo kids their own
laptops for their birthday. Â They already have older, clunkier
machines, running Ubuntu of course - But I guess why turn down
an offer of new laptops, right?
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<div>I hate to pay the "Windows tax," but don't want to point my
parents towards anything over $400, so was thinking about a
pair of these bestsellers on Amazon:</div>
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<div>Haven't had any issues with Ubuntu on Dell in the past -
they're usually on <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/">http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/</a>.</div>
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<div>Wondering if anybody would recommend something else in this
price range? Â Acer? Â Fujitsu? Â HP? Â Aside from Minecraft,
these aren't for gaming - just something suitable for kids
learning programming, word processing, etc.</div>
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<div>Thanks</div>
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<div>P.S. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://CoderDojoDC.com">http://CoderDojoDC.com</a>
is back alternate Sunday afternoons, if anyone's in the
Silver Spring area.</div>
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