<div dir="ltr"><div>You should be able to get Linux running on that thing. You may be forced to stick with a major distro that knows how to deal with the new BIOS-ish situation, as opposed to something extremely "hipster"...but you're not stuck with Win8.x.<br>
<br></div>Jim<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Kevin Fries <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kevin@fries-biro.com" target="_blank">kevin@fries-biro.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Yea but it runs Windows 8, the worst OS since ME.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The Chrome book will save you in usability feature, plus not having to buy an office siite, and an antivirus, etc.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I'd go with the chromebook.</p>
<p dir="ltr">But that's me.</p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
<p dir="ltr">Kevin</p></font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 18, 2014 11:51 AM, <<a href="mailto:techlists@phpcoderusa.com" target="_blank">techlists@phpcoderusa.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Thanks for your feedback!! The price point is very good!! If the performance is there then it would be a steal.<br>
<br>
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On 2014-07-18 10:09, Jim March wrote:<br>
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If we check the CPU specs:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://ark.intel.com/products/81071/Intel-Celeron-Processor-N2830-1M-Cache-up-to-2_41-GHz" target="_blank">http://ark.intel.com/products/<u></u>81071/Intel-Celeron-Processor-<u></u>N2830-1M-Cache-up-to-2_41-GHz</a><br>
[3]<br>
<br>
...we see that surpprisingly, it HAS the Intel "VTx" hardware<br>
virtualization<br>
extension. That means getting a virtual machine running on it for at<br>
least basic stuff will work at reasonable speeds.<br>
<br>
If we got to the CPUBench site we see it has a "performance score" of<br>
just under 1,000 which...is...bad-ish but not terrible like some of<br>
the Atom crap.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.cpubenchmark.net/midlow_range_cpus.html" target="_blank">http://www.cpubenchmark.net/<u></u>midlow_range_cpus.html</a> [4]<br>
<br>
Upshot: you could do real work with that puppy, with a modern Linux<br>
distro and even light virtualization (running a copy of WinXP or<br>
another distro as a VM on it).<br>
<br>
Jim<br>
<br>
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 10:02 AM, <<a href="mailto:techlists@phpcoderusa.com" target="_blank">techlists@phpcoderusa.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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Better than a Chromebook?<br>
<br>
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<a href="http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-15-3531-laptop/pd?oc=fndoc3001b&model_id=inspiron-15-3531-laptop" target="_blank">http://www.dell.com/us/p/<u></u>inspiron-15-3531-laptop/pd?oc=<u></u>fndoc3001b&model_id=inspiron-<u></u>15-3531-laptop</a><br>
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