Re: Chromebooks on the rise

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From	RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
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Subject	Re: Chromebooks on the rise
Date	Fri, 23 May 2014 22:23:22 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2014-05-22, Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Chromebooks "sold" but how many are in use?  This is similar to the
> doublespeak around Android phones, where it's impossible to get an
> accurate count of sales from pretty much anybody.  You have "sales"
> which is probably best interpreted as sales to retailers, not sales to
> consumers, and you have "activations" which could mean any number of
> things, including a flash n wipe of a phone that's been activated 30x
> already.
>
> I feel bad that you smashed your Powerbook.  The upsides are that they
> are absolutely dirt cheap now, and they lack the built in NSA mandated
> backdoors that all Intel machines now have (iAMT and vPro).  If I can
> ever locate a 13" G4 in great shape I will get it for sure.
>

You may be on to something.  Interesting: just looked it up and a
refurbished PPC powerbook running 10.4.11 is $289, the same price as the
Chromebook I just picked up.  I'm tempted to buy one and run NetBSD on
it or something - they've got a halfway decent PPC port.

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Chromebooks on the rise RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-14 09:53 +0000
  Re: Chromebooks on the rise Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-19 21:36 +0000
    Re: Chromebooks on the rise RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-20 10:36 +0000
      Re: Chromebooks on the rise RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-21 13:11 +0000
        Re: Chromebooks on the rise Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-22 15:08 -0700
          Re: Chromebooks on the rise RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-23 22:23 +0000

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