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 <klsmith2020@yahoo.com> 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. 


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Keith Smith

--- On Mon, 1/14/13, joe@actionline.com <joe@actionline.com> wrote:

From: joe@actionline.com <joe@actionline.com>

Subject: Re: Has anyone here tried a Chromebook?
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>
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.



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