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If you want to stick to ARM and enjoy light, cool, fanless computing with a long battery life, why not try a smartbook?

For example, https://www.genesi-usa.com/store/details/12
$200 - that's quite cheap.

edit: The EU store's here: http://www.genesi-europe.com/store/eu/

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I like that ARM lappy!!
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I feel obligated to mention the Samsung N100.

$200, but hardly available.
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Asus Eee PC X101... Thin, light and with MeeGo 1.2. And costing just about $200 USD.
http://www.asus.com/Eee/Eee_PC/Eee_PC_X101/

Edit: However, battery life is a bit of a downer with only abt. 4 hrs...
 

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That's Atom *shudders* / x86. Probably with a fan too?
 

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@ erendorn, That's what I thought about last night, and probably what I am
going to do, since I got my N900 I started loving linux even more, and now
I just can't live without it =)

@ bandora, the problem with these fujitsus, are that their good notes are
around a thousand dollars, the cheap ones still uses pentiums-dual cores...
And they use all Intel chips, I wanted AMD ones, I've known AMD for
quite a long time, and I always trusted them more, also they seems
to be developing a lot better chips than Intel lately for desktops and
laptops.

@ qwazix, Why not Hp? I will give a beter look on Lenovo, it's just I don't
trust these new chinese brands ( nothing personal ).

@ govprog, That's a nice one too, I will give a look on it's price around here...

@ wheelybird, I would only go for an ARM with windows 8, not so sure if I will use other
OS than the ones I am accoustumated to...

@volt, Well, Meego makes me think of N9, then of Nokia, then of what
maemo could have been and didn't become ( I knwo nokia has little to do with meego now ) but I don't think I would buy one...
Still, a decent laptop.

@don_falcone, Thanks, I will take a look at the link. And, Atom chips... Argh intel...

@ marrat It's meego man...
Another reason why I wouldn't go for meego? Watch this fight between
iOS x Android...
Who wins? No one knows, everyone one has it's preference, right?
I wouldn't cheer for neighter, but thinking WELL, iOS is designed for
so few devices, it works extremelly well on them.
Look Android for example, it has tons of devices under it's flagship,
and that causes it many problems with apps and so on.
Sometimes I wonder if it will ever happen to meego...

I am still going for the dm1z for now, i found one here in my country for
700 dollars ( 1195 R$ ), well, I don't think I can find cheaper ones around here...
Still, I think I know someone on the US who might send me one, I will
try contact my buddy.

Thanks for the responses so far, and don't think I am in a thanks giving
thread, but since the responses are helpful to me, I hit the thanks
button.
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The thing about MeeGo laptops, though, is you don't really need to have MeeGo on them. It's just a special Linux distro.

That said, if I could compare $700 laptops with $200 laptops, I'd try to get a tablet PC instead of a tablet or netbook. I just like my styluses. Except for my capacitive stylus, that's just a bad joke.
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The thing about MeeGo laptops, though, is you don't really need to have MeeGo on them. It's just a special Linux distro.

That said, if I could compare $700 laptops with $200 laptops, I'd try to get a tablet PC instead of a tablet or netbook. I just like my styluses. Except for my capacitive stylus, that's just a bad joke.
Hehe, 700 dollars here in brazil, 400 in USA...

But some meego laptops will come with arm, no? arm is still not THAT
you know... And the ones with x86, well, it's intel atom...
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Yeah... Well, they're netbooks. Never really got that market. Just as regular laptops were entering that price segment, they started selling weaker machines.
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