Looking for an office/programming laptop under 600, got it down to these two. Got a recommendation for which one?

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Jul 21, 2012
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I've got it down to this or this - anyone recommend one over the other? Alternatively, anything better I could get for under $600 before tax + ship? I'm in Canada. It'll be used for office stuff and programming mainly, willing to sacrifice specs for battery life (to a certain extent) as I travel a lot. Going to put Ubuntu on it so included Windows isn't a big deal.

Thanks!