On Monday 17 March 2014 18.30:07 Felmon Davis wrote:

> the trick will be, I think, getting the touchpad to work. I abhor
> touchpads but still want it to work. also there are only two usb
> ports.


I hate touchpads too, which is why almost all my laptops are/where Thinkpads. 
I've taken a look at the c720 (they say 1.25 kg) and Lenovo's x131e (1.8 kg!) 
and I must say I'm more and more surprized at the Chromebook trend.

They are cheap ok. However, I just purchased a second hand Thinkad X200 for 
less than $250, it weights 1.4 kg and runs Debain perfectly (with TDE of 
course) on a 64 GB SSD.  The X201 is just a little more expensive for 
Touchpad friends.

I understand it is fun to see if these netbooks can run with Linux, but I 
doubt it is really usefull.

Thierry