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My wife and son are heading out while I stay home to babysit some contractors. We discussed getting her a small, cheap laptop that would primarily be used for Skype. Good quality integrated video & mike are prerequisites, as is Windows (though I'd entertain OSX). Doesn't need to be large, a 12" screen is probably fine.

If I went new, where should I look?

And if I were going to test the used/craigslist waters, what specs are we talking about?

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It seems to me as this would have a really large worldwide audience. A skype enabled cheap laptop, that is mostly unable to do much else, should be something possible to build. But it also seems that any question with "cheap" on the title gets closed. I just don't think there's any really good solution like that out there yet, so you'd have to stick with those not-so-cheap netbooks that are actually able to do lot more than just sykpe. – Cawas Apr 27 '10 at 17:10
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I got a used EeePC 900 for my parents for Christmas. I got it dirt cheap. There are both Windows and Linux versions of the 900. The Linux version comes with Skype pre-installed if I remember correctly. It has integrated webcam and microphone.

I got the Linux version, but immediately replaced it with Windows XP as they were only going to use it for Spotify.

Any used netbook will most likely do what you need, and it'll be cheap too :)

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