Has anyone here tried a Chromebook?

[keith smith]

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 at actionline.com <joe at actionline.com> wrote:

From: joe at actionline.com <joe at actionline.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, 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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