That's a very powerful laptop with very long battery life.
I've been in the market for an ultra-cheap (definitely below $100) intel architecture laptop for a while so that i could install FreeDos. That has intel architecture, but is WAAAY too powerful for what i'm looking for, not to mention the price. You get cheap with low amount of hard drive space, but i still don't need anything close to that for FreeDos.
I ordered a 16GB chromebook with a celeron processor for $67 a couple weeks ago, but unfortunately i had to return the thing because i got it and the screen was messed up. The screen imperfection was not a big deal, but the vendor said it was "open box" condition and any screw up with screen like that reveals that the condition was a lie. Luckily i don't i'm not paying for the return shipping.
I'm now pessimistic that it's possible to find a new or open box (should mean that it was basically just opened and maybe used a couple times for testing...) chromebook in that price range in today's marketplace. I'm down with refurbished but only if it was from a real life store, things in refurbished condition can be for great deals but not if there are some screw ups that the vendor either accidentally or purposefully overlooked.
P.S.: oh forgot to mention that if the FreeDos thing didn't work out that i would be happy to try puppy linux
The goal for me is to spend almost nothing for a laptop that doesn't have execessive memory for these kinds of operating systems.