Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: RS Wood Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Chromebooks on the rise Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 22:23:22 +0000 (UTC) Organization: solani.org Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <1887261811422147715.413786bob_davis_retired-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <20140520103652.8e394c12.rsw@therandymon.com> <20140521131110.8478de91.rsw@therandymon.com> Reply-To: randy@therandymon.com X-Trace: solani.org 1400883802 3320 eJwFwQkBwDAIA0BLDRDo5FAe/xJ2R3V4hTnduNxB+VkViWgk6jYLhWyeqdf6EhecXPmwPvYDJgoRpg== (23 May 2014 22:23:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 22:23:22 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) X-User-ID: eJwFwQkBACAIBLBKvIfEEYT+EdxcwegwOMzX90RfTSIRL+mbKzTOTDvZmEBZ6uqLDLyyEx8QqRCw Cancel-Lock: sha1:6yU+9B2Z6wZEUkUEe/c20rJ2RtY= X-NNTP-Posting-Host: eJwFwYEBwDAEBMCVCP+pcVD2HyF3MCr7OkHHYlNmUqASd73GhFl1xtXQjfgrvhKO9ql2sXwlzxFv Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:3049 On 2014-05-22, Oregonian Haruspex 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.