Why wait? Mine is a quad core with 2GB ram and 11 GB of usable space. with a couple APK's you can get Debian arch or Ubuntu installed in a chroot environment, and they even built an Xserver apk to connect to it for a gui if you need it. once you have the main environment a Lamp is very easy to do.all of this is available in the f-droid or Google application "stores" I just have to either find or build a kernel that has loop devices enabled for my phone, others allready support this. :-) On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 4:20 PM, keith smith wrote: > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > > ------------------------ > Keith Smith > > --- On *Mon, 1/14/13, joe@actionline.com * wrote: > > > From: joe@actionline.com > > Subject: Re: Has anyone here tried a Chromebook? > To: "Main PLUG discussion list" > Date: Monday, January 14, 2013, 3:58 PM > > > > Keith last wrote: > > That would work, however they cost more than a netbook. > > I have replaced my older "tower" computers with two of these, one of which > I bought new for $349 a couple years ago, and the other I found on > Craigslist for $150. They use only 8-watts of power (I think). They run > absolutely silent and never get hot. Here is another still available (I > think) on Craigslist for $150: > > http://phoenix.craigslist.org/nph/sys/3467164583.html > > One is now my main computer and the second is just a clone for backup. > I'm just now converting them both to kubuntu 12.10. > > For personal use (except for gamers), I can't see any benefit to big > "towers" with 200-watt or larger power supplies any more. > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen