Has anyone here tried a Chromebook?

[Stephen]

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.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Description=nettops&Submit=ENE


On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 2:39 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> I've been toying with configuring a Netbook as a public facing LAMP web
> server for testing.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Anyone else using Netbooks or cheap laptops in a production environment?
>
>
> ------------------------
> Keith Smith
>
> --- On *Mon, 1/14/13, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Has anyone here tried a Chromebook?
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>
> Date: Monday, January 14, 2013, 12:02 PM
>
> The Pros are its cost/performance. They generally run very well for what
> they do. The battery life is pretty good also.
> 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.
>
> 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..
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:41 AM, <joe at actionline.com<http://mc/compose?to=joe@actionline.com>
> > wrote:
>
>
> Thanks for sharing this, Keith.
> Seems like a Chromebook might be excellent for travel.
> One can readily see some good "pros" ... what are the "cons"?
>
>
> 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
>
> How superior is Intel Atom N455 dual core performance than Intel Celeron
> dual core?
>
> Seems like the Samsung Chromebook at $249 is better in a lot of ways.
> Longer battery life and perhaps better construction.
>
>
>
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