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. Jim On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Kevin Fries wrote: > Yea but it runs Windows 8, the worst OS since ME. > > The Chrome book will save you in usability feature, plus not having to buy > an office siite, and an antivirus, etc. > > I'd go with the chromebook. > > But that's me. > > Kevin > On Jul 18, 2014 11:51 AM, wrote: > >> >> Thanks for your feedback!! The price point is very good!! If the >> performance is there then it would be a steal. >> >> >> >> On 2014-07-18 10:09, Jim March wrote: >> >>> If we check the CPU specs: >>> >>> http://ark.intel.com/products/81071/Intel-Celeron-Processor- >>> N2830-1M-Cache-up-to-2_41-GHz >>> [3] >>> >>> ...we see that surpprisingly, it HAS the Intel "VTx" hardware >>> virtualization >>> extension. That means getting a virtual machine running on it for at >>> least basic stuff will work at reasonable speeds. >>> >>> If we got to the CPUBench site we see it has a "performance score" of >>> just under 1,000 which...is...bad-ish but not terrible like some of >>> the Atom crap. >>> >>> http://www.cpubenchmark.net/midlow_range_cpus.html [4] >>> >>> Upshot: you could do real work with that puppy, with a modern Linux >>> distro and even light virtualization (running a copy of WinXP or >>> another distro as a VM on it). >>> >>> Jim >>> >>> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 10:02 AM, wrote: >>> >>> Better than a Chromebook? >>>> >>>> >>>> http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-15-3531-laptop/pd?oc= >>> fndoc3001b&model_id=inspiron-15-3531-laptop >>> >>>> [1] >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> 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 [2] >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Links: >>> ------ >>> [1] >>> http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-15-3531-laptop/pd?oc= >>> fndoc3001b&model_id=inspiron-15-3531-laptop >>> >>> [2] http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> [3] >>> http://ark.intel.com/products/81071/Intel-Celeron-Processor- >>> N2830-1M-Cache-up-to-2_41-GHz >>> [4] http://www.cpubenchmark.net/midlow_range_cpus.html >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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 >