[jwrallie]

I’d like a portable device with good battery that would run free software, mostly for privacy reasons. Anything with a good battery could do, GNU/Linux would not be strictly necessary. Running TOR or a VPN over Wifi and a browser and fast enough to stream a YouTube video at 720p is all I need.

I wonder what would be the closest hardware today that could do it. Smartphone or small tablet form factor would do just fine for me.

[zozbot234]

Gaming handheld would give you that. There are also old Intel-Atom based tablet PC's that are quite cheap on the second-hand market, and work well with Linux. Smartphone/palmtop form factor would be harder though.