Refurbished Laptops with Linux Lite preinstalled

[rokytnji]

Too bad you guys do not celebrate Thanksgiving overseas like we do.
Only 1 per customer though while stock lasts.

You have to walk in (wait in line 1st) to buy just one. It is how these things operate in the states.
I am posting from one such deal. This was brand new when I bought it for the wife when inxi shows the date.
It was her birthday present then. Which is next week.  :  I am stuck on what to get this year.

It was 200 bucks new then. She now has a Dell with 8 gig of ram and Windows 7 Enterprise with a I5 processor.
I bought her that one last year. It was how I ended up with this.

Code:

$ inxi -M
Machine:   System: Hewlett-Packard product: Presario CQ57 Notebook PC v: 068C110003204910000620100
           Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 3577 v: 24.48
           Bios: Hewlett-Packard v: F.42 date: 11/07/2011
$ inxi -f
CPU:       Dual core AMD C-50 (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB
           clock speeds: max: 1000 MHz 1: 800 MHz 2: 1000 MHz
           CPU Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm aperfmperf apic arat clflush cmov
           cmp_legacy constant_tsc cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de extapic extd_apicid
           fpu fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibs lahf_lm lbrv lm mca mce
           misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor msr mtrr nonstop_tsc npt nrip_save
           nx pae pat pausefilter pdpe1gb pge pni popcnt pse pse36 rdtscp sep
           skinit sse sse2 sse4a ssse3 svm svm_lock syscall tsc vme wdt

Hardware takes some skill and then patience to refurbish a laptop/netbook. I can speak from experience having done this with a gutted
Dell XT2 Touchscreen Netbook. It is nice now. For a dual core, 5gig ram, SSD hard drive, Netbook.
Figure in parts, and my labour, setting it up for pennies. Still comes out to about 250 bucks for a touchscreen, 5 gig ram, 120 gig SSD, dual core intel, Linux Lite laptop, with a swivel screen, with a good battery and new power supply.

They make a good Linux Lite Platform

But I do not know how available they are for you guys overseas.

My Compaq I am posting from made a good platform also, except for the sd card reader with the newer kernels that were tested out on it.
The stock kernel worked fine when I had that drive in here.
Looks like England has a few

I mentioned Chromebooks earlier because I also have a Acer C710 Chromebook with dual core Celeron cpus. I do not know if Linux Lite
is Crouton capable though. That seems to be a Ubuntu or Debian only thing. I do not have enough experience using the -r option on mine to see. Plus touchpad kernel modules need enabling also. Which is a kernel 3.17 feature. Jeff Hoogland/Bohdi did it on the Acer C720 which is the model that came out after mine.  That was why I mentioned a Chromebook might be a possibility.

There might be some killer open box deals on those. From unhappy owners that returned them for a Windows 8 Laptop.
It was how I received mine. It sold for 200. I got it for 99.

Just jaw jacking really before I go to bed. Since this is suggestions and ideas.