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What do you actaully want to use a computer for when on holidays? That probably determines the answer more than anything else.

Without any information, have you considered an ipad and maybe a bluetooth keyboard? You can pick up older but still supported ipads pretty cheaply second hand.

One of the little Chromebooks which will take a standard Linux distribution is a good option.

A tablet running Debian, and a wireless keyboard, is my choice these days though.

i've been using a 4gb toshiba cb35 with galliumos (chromebook ubuntu flavor) as a daily internet reading device for like six years now, it was $250 when i bought it so it can't be that expensive. i'd recommend swapping out the ssd for something bigger than stock (16gb iirc) though. gallium is very very good.