Has anyone here tried a Chromebook?

[Stephen]

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 at 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.
>
>
> ------------------------
> 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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Stephen
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