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[Kevin Fries]

Yea but it runs Windows 8, the worst OS since ME.

The Chrome book will save you in usability feature, plus not having to buy
an office siite, and an antivirus, etc.

I'd go with the chromebook.

But that's me.

Kevin
On Jul 18, 2014 11:51 AM, <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> wrote:

>
> Thanks for your feedback!!  The price point is very good!!  If the
> performance is there then it would be a steal.
>
>
>
> On 2014-07-18 10:09, Jim March wrote:
>
>> If we check the CPU specs:
>>
>> http://ark.intel.com/products/81071/Intel-Celeron-Processor-
>> N2830-1M-Cache-up-to-2_41-GHz
>> [3]
>>
>> ...we see that surpprisingly, it HAS the Intel "VTx" hardware
>> virtualization
>> extension.  That means getting a virtual machine running on it for at
>> least basic stuff will work at reasonable speeds.
>>
>> If we got to the CPUBench site we see it has a "performance score" of
>> just under 1,000 which...is...bad-ish but not terrible like some of
>> the Atom crap.
>>
>> http://www.cpubenchmark.net/midlow_range_cpus.html [4]
>>
>> Upshot: you could do real work with that puppy, with a modern Linux
>> distro and even light virtualization (running a copy of WinXP or
>> another distro as a VM on it).
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 10:02 AM, <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Better than a Chromebook?
>>>
>>>
>>>  http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-15-3531-laptop/pd?oc=
>> fndoc3001b&model_id=inspiron-15-3531-laptop
>>
>>> [1]
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>> Links:
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>> [1]
>> http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-15-3531-laptop/pd?oc=
>> fndoc3001b&model_id=inspiron-15-3531-laptop
>> <http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-15-3531-laptop/pd?oc=fndoc3001b&model_id=inspiron-15-3531-laptop>
>> [2] http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>> [3]
>> http://ark.intel.com/products/81071/Intel-Celeron-Processor-
>> N2830-1M-Cache-up-to-2_41-GHz
>> [4] http://www.cpubenchmark.net/midlow_range_cpus.html
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