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[Jim March]

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 <kevin at fries-biro.com> 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, <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> 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, <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> 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]
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>>>
>>> Links:
>>> ------
>>> [1]
>>> http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-15-3531-laptop/pd?oc=
>>> fndoc3001b&model_id=inspiron-15-3531-laptop
>>> <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
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