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Keith Smith<br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 1/14/13, Nathan England <i><nathan@nmecs.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Nathan England <nathan@nmecs.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, 3:33 PM<br><br><div id="yiv1440333832">
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px;">And the battery in the laptop (if you leave it in, which I typically do) works as a battery backup should power go out... Net tops don't have that!</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px;">Nathan<br><br>On Monday, January 14, 2013 14:14:42 keith smith wrote:<br></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px;"><br>That would work, however they cost more than a netbook. <br><br>------------------------<br>Keith Smith<br><br>--- On <span style="font-weight:600;">Mon, 1/14/13, Stephen </span><span style="font-weight:600;font-style:italic;"><cryptworks@gmail.com></span> wrote:<br></p>
<p style="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:12px;margin-left:5px;margin-right:40px;text-indent:0px;"><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, 2:50 PM<br><br></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:5px;margin-right:40px;text-indent:0px;"><a rel="nofollow" name="yiv877819417"></a>sounds like a net top would be perfect for you then. they are a netbook without the keyboard battery and screen. install centos on it and leave it alone.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:5px;margin-right:40px;text-indent:0px;">On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 2:39 PM, keith smith <<a rel="nofollow"><span style="text-decoration:underline;color:#3e4d78;">klsmith2020@yahoo.com</span></a>> wrote:<br></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px;"><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 <span style="font-weight:600;">Mon, 1/14/13, Stephen </span><span style="font-weight:600;font-style:italic;"><</span><a rel="nofollow"><span style="font-weight:600;font-style:italic;text-decoration:underline;color:#3e4d78;">cryptworks@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-weight:600;font-style:italic;">></span> wrote:<br></p>
<p style="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:12px;margin-left:5px;margin-right:40px;text-indent:0px;"><br>From: Stephen <<a rel="nofollow"><span style="text-decoration:underline;color:#3e4d78;">cryptworks@gmail.com</span></a>><br>Subject: Re: Has anyone here tried a Chromebook?<br>To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <<a rel="nofollow"><span style="text-decoration:underline;color:#3e4d78;">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</span></a>><br>Date: Monday, January 14, 2013, 12:02 PM<br><br></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:5px;margin-right:40px;text-indent:0px;">The Pros are its cost/performance. They generally run very well for what they do. The battery life is pretty good also.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:5px;margin-right:40px;text-indent:0px;">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. </p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:5px;margin-right:40px;text-indent:0px;">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.. </p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:5px;margin-right:40px;text-indent:0px;">On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:41 AM, <<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mc/compose?to=joe@actionline.com"><span style="text-decoration:underline;color:#3e4d78;">joe@actionline.com</span></a>> wrote:<br></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:11px;margin-right:40px;text-indent:0px;"><br>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><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=chromebook_acer_c710&utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-ha-na-us-gdn-acer&utm_medium=ha"><span style="text-decoration:underline;color:#3e4d78;">https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=chromebook_acer_c710&utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-ha-na-us-gdn-acer&utm_medium=ha</span></a><br><br>How superior is Intel Atom N455 dual core performance than Intel Celeron<br>dual core?<br><br>Seems like the Samsung Chromebook at $249 is better in a lot of ways.<br>Longer battery life and perhaps better
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