<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br>I think they have more value than just browsing the web. I am a LAMP dev. I use a cheap HP Laptop as my dev server. It is not much better than this Chromebook and I'm using a HP Pavilion g6 (cheap and on sale) for my workstation - very bottom of the line. <br><br>For instance, a fellow PLUG member was walking me through setting up a virtual machine. He was using a netbook with the Intel chip that was prior to the Intel Atom N455 and he was beating me. I am running an AMD A4-3300 running at 1.9GHtz and 4GB RAM. I think his netbook was running at 1.3GHz and it probably had only 1GB RAM. <br><br>I think these cheap Netbook are more powerful than they might seem. I would not use one if I were a designer because they might not have enough power. However I find them to be very useful and they are cheap.
<br><br>I know they are way more powerful than my old broken down 11 year old laptop running a 1Ghz Celeron w/256MB RAM. 2 years ago I loaded CentOS on it and configured it to run as a mail server using Qmail Toaster. It was only a test, however it ran just fine. <br><br>I've been toying with configuring a Netbook as a public facing LAMP web server for testing. <br><br>The Tucson Free Unix Group (TFUG) used a laptop for a couple years to serve their website. Not for an active website, however it worked just find. AND it served the mailing list.<br><br>For me the computer is waiting most of the time for me to type so these small cheap computers work well. If I were compiling C or C++ all the time I would want something substantially faster, however I am not. <br><br>Anyone else using Netbooks or cheap laptops in a production environment? <br><br>------------------------<br>
Keith Smith<br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 1/14/13, Stephen <i><cryptworks@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Stephen <cryptworks@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: Has anyone here tried a Chromebook?<br>To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org><br>Date: Monday, January 14, 2013, 12:02 PM<br><br><div id="yiv741616836"><div dir="ltr">The Pros are its cost/performance. They generally run very well for what they do. The battery life is pretty good also.<div>The cons you cannot fall back to Firefox for sites that will not allow chrome, and you are using a small net-book that is 100% purpose built to run just a browser.</div>
<div><br></div><div style="">Within that there are a number of tools giving you a great deal of functionality inside the chrome browser as a plugin. One of my favorites of these is an SSH client. they also have RDP and VNC clients as well. so in a pinch you can remote someplace and get something done..</div>
</div><div class="yiv741616836gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="yiv741616836gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:41 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:joe@actionline.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=joe@actionline.com">joe@actionline.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="yiv741616836gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Thanks for sharing this, Keith.<br>
Seems like a Chromebook might be excellent for travel.<br>
One can readily see some good "pros" ... what are the "cons"?<br>
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How superior is Intel Atom N455 dual core performance than Intel Celeron<br>
dual core?<br>
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Seems like the Samsung Chromebook at $249 is better in a lot of ways.<br>
Longer battery life and perhaps better construction.<br>
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