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<div class=""> Have you looked at Netbooks? Lenovo and Asus make some pretty good quality small form factor laptops with no extra frills (Asus: <a href="https://www.asus.com/Laptops/Eee_PC_1005PX/" class="">https://www.asus.com/Laptops/Eee_PC_1005PX/</a>,
Lenovo: <a href="https://www.lenovo.com/ph/en/laptops/ideapad/ideapad-100-series/c/ideapad-100-series" class="">https://www.lenovo.com/ph/en/laptops/ideapad/ideapad-100-series/c/ideapad-100-series</a>). Netbooks typically only have wifi and USB ports, and
sometimes slightly outdated hardware, so make sure everything you need is on the machine you buy. You can get them for under $200 USD and they would likely last a year or two in field situations. The main issue I’ve found with laptops in the field is that
viruses often get transferred via usb sticks used to copy movies and music for entertainment purposes (another reason I use a Mac), so a good simple virus scanner is helpful too - just be careful it isn’t a memory hog, and the virus scanner will need to be
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<div class="">Some reviews of netbooks are here: <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/feature/287214/the-top-10-best-netbooks" class="">https://www.pcmag.com/feature/287214/the-top-10-best-netbooks</a> and here: <a href="https://bestlaptopsworld.com/best-netbooks/" class="">https://bestlaptopsworld.com/best-netbooks/</a> </div>
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<div class="">With FLEx and Elan the main requirement is going to be Windows, which unfortunately means you probably wouldn’t find anything under $100 due to the Windows license. If you could somehow get cheap copies of Windows and get netbooks without software,
you could save a bit of money, but this makes you your own IT department. If you set up something like Ubuntu with LibreOffice it would be mostly impervious to viruses, but it’s much harder for the locals to fix if something does break - and I’m not sure how
well FLEx and Elan work on Ubuntu.</div>
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<div class="">Anyhow, just my two cents.</div>
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<div class="">On 27 Aug 2019, at 5:39 AM, Cindy Schneider <<a href="mailto:cschnei3@une.edu.au" class="">cschnei3@une.edu.au</a>> wrote:</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(76, 17, 48);" class="">I am on the same search Nick. Will be interested to read any suggestions that are forthcoming. Thanks for asking the group.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 at 12:39, Nick Thieberger <<a href="mailto:thien@unimelb.edu.au" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">thien@unimelb.edu.au</a>> wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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I'm looking to get laptops for people in the Pacific to use for transcription of recordings. These laptops need to be able to run Elan and FLEx but also be as cheap to buy as possible. Do you have any suggestions?<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<em class="">see what I'm up to here:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.maeakatohana.org/" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">www.maeakatohana.org</a></em><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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