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Just bought a #DELL 3190 laptop, new for $150 (11.6" screen, 64GB eMMC). It's fully supported on #Linux, and even if it has a Celeron N4120 CPU and only 4 GB of RAM, it'll work fine with #Mint, or #XFCE (and #Gnome/ #KDE if you don't mind some minor lag). Not opening too many browser tabs will ensure that the swap file won't get used too often.

If you're on a tight budget this is a good option, as it also has great battery life too at 10 hours with Linux.

#linuxmint #ubuntu #opensource #foss

Dell 3190 Laptop
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Sonny
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great price!

I miss small laptops :(

Do you know/can you tell if the emmc version has an available slot for M2 drive? Can't figure it out from Dell website

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Eugenia L
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@sonny It's a small laptop, so I don't expect it to have additional storage abilities. Although they were some models of the 3190 that came with 128GB, so you might wanna hunt for these instead.

Debian takes 9 GB of space on a clean install btw, fedora 12GB, ubuntu/mint take 16GB. In fact, I have some installations of Debian/XFce at 16 GB emmc (ex-chromebooks). Tight, but it works. So at least for me, 64GB is plenty. The 4 GB of RAM will (eventually) be a bigger problem than internal storage.

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Eugenia L
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@sonny On a review for this laptop, I found this: "If you need more storage, there is an option for an M.2 128GB SATA SSD (Class 20). " So, not sure what to think of it...
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