Cheap Hardware for Linux

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Any advice on cheap hardware for running Linux?

It is for a school and so needs to be either laptop or notebook format and be ready to go without setting up every lesson (which unfortunately rules out the PI).

The cheaper the better and specs are relatively unimportant as we only need it for some command line stuff.

Thanks.

 

[RDM]

Thanks for the advice, but I possibly should have been clearer, I am looking to buy a class set for my students to use rather than just one for me. Which means I need to get a bunch of the same spec from a reasonably reputable place and (with school budgets as they are) as cheap as possible!

At the moment we might have to go down the virtual route as the boat seems to have sailed on cheap notebooks and the cheap tablets are all android.

 

[RDM]

Have you ruled out VirtualBox?

Or get the RaspPis and then remote into them via SSH then they can be left setup and they don't even need to be in the classroom.

The request to install VirtualBox is in and that will probably be used by most of the students, however I would like them to get some hands on experience too just to reinforce that what they are working on is different from the standard windows machine.

What I may do is have a lesson or two with Pis and then do the bulk on VirtualBox.