Dell Business has the Dell Vostro 2420 Intel Celeron Dual Core Ubuntu 13.3" Laptop (London Slate) on sale for
$349 with free shipping. Weighs about 4.8 lbs; measures 1.24" to 1.37" thick. Cut your ties to "the man"; Ubuntu Linux operating system installed. Here's a review of a
slightly upgraded version.
Intel Celeron B820 Dual Core 1.7GHz, 2GB DDR3, 320GB HDD
14.0" 720p LED, Intel HD 3000, 802.11b/g/n, BT v4.0+LE
Celeron! That processor's been around for >14 years:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celeron
From that wikipedia page:
"The Celeron B8xx processors released in 2011 follow the Arrandale line. They are Dual-Core processors with integrated graphics and use the same chips as the Pentium B9xx and Core i3/i5/i7-2xxx mobile processors, but with Turbo-Boost, Hyper-Threading, VT-d, TXT and AES-NI disabled and the L3 cache reduced to 2MB."