<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br>Heat is one of the main reasons I went to laptops. I had 2 towers running 350 plus watt power supplies. My office was the hottest room in the house. Now today I could use that heat, however in July and August I'll pass. <br><br>These net top computers are cool. I still like the netbooks or cheap notebooks though because you get a monitor, mouse, and keyboard with them. That makes them perfect for a simple LAMP server in a dev environment. Or add an external monitor, keyboard, and a mouse and you have two screens you can use. Not as nice as two large flat panel monitors, however not as much expense either. <br><br>Once in a while I make the joke that if smart phones become more powerful, I might just use a couple of them for my LAMP dev. <br><br><br>------------------------<br>
Keith Smith<br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 1/14/13, joe@actionline.com <i><joe@actionline.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: joe@actionline.com <joe@actionline.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, 3:58 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail"><br>Keith last wrote:<br>> That would work, however they cost more than a netbook. <br><br>I have replaced my older "tower" computers with two of these, one of which<br>I bought new for $349 a couple years ago, and the other I found on<br>Craigslist for $150. They use only 8-watts of power (I think). They run<br>absolutely silent and never get hot. Here is another still available (I<br>think) on Craigslist for $150:<br><br><a href="http://phoenix.craigslist.org/nph/sys/3467164583.html"
target="_blank">http://phoenix.craigslist.org/nph/sys/3467164583.html</a><br><br>One is now my main computer and the second is just a clone for backup.<br>I'm just now converting them both to kubuntu 12.10.<br><br>For personal use (except for gamers), I can't see any benefit to big<br>"towers" with 200-watt or larger power supplies any more.<br><br><br><br>---------------------------------------------------<br>PLUG-discuss mailing list - <a ymailto="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" href="/mc/compose?to=PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a><br>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:<br><a href="http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss</a></div></blockquote></td></tr></table>