I was asking about your comp situation because I have an old 10.1" Acer aspire one AOD205 (2010) netbook laying around and if it could be of assistance I was going to give it to you. Its running a fresh version of xp but its ran 7, Android, Ubuntu, fedora, mint all like a champ. I dual booted many OS's from it with no issue. I know you like Linux so all you have to do is put it on USB and flash which ever flavor you want aside the xp. It works great but being 2 years old the battery is weak lasting only 30 min off charger but on charger its great. A new one is like 35 on eBay. If you need this little guy to help your work until you get another laptop its yours just let me know. Id toss it to you just to say thanks for all your hard work. 1.66ghz Intel atom, 160gb 1gb ram.
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