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Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware, not their OS

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Rich <rich@example.com> wrote:
> root <NoEMail@home.org> wrote:
>> Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 06 Mar 2014 15:05:22 +0000, RS Wood wrote:
>> > 
>> >> Well, I guess it is a small bit different. You see - when I buy a
>> >> Chromebook not only am I not paying a Windows tax for my hardware,
>> >> but I am getting a laptop with a sleek form factor that gets an
>> >> amazing battery life. To get these things from a Windows PC you
>> >> generally have to pay a giant premium.
>> >> 
>> >> In closing, if you are in the market for some sleek Linux hardware
>> >> at a low cost I would highly recommend checking out the Acer
>> >> C720[5] or the HP 14"[2] Chromebooks.
>> > 
>> > So far the Chromebooks I've seen have ARM processors and small hard
>> > drives (albeit SSD) or Intel processors and a big hard drive the
>> > better part of a terabyte).  I'd love one with an ARM and a large
>> > hard drive.
>> > 
>> > -- hendrik
> 
>> The ones mentioned by the OP have Celeron processors. The size of the
>> SSD (16Gb) is too small to have much of a linux installation. I
>> wonder if the Cloud storage can be accessed as a hard drive?
> 
> Depends upon the installation.  A full install of Slackware takes up
> only about 4-6G.  Leaving about 10-12G free.  Yes, not a whole lot, but
> it will fit.

Agreed.  Salix 13.37 system on an AA1 with an 8G SSD:

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1       6.6G  4.1G  2.3G  65% /
tmpfs           753M     0  753M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/mmcblk0p1  939M  224M  668M  26% /var
/tmp            245M  8.0K  245M   1% /tmp
/dev/mmcblk0p2   14G  1.9G   12G  14% /home

sda1 is / & /usr. Home & var are on a 16G SDHC card in the left-hand
slot. There's also 512M swap partition on sda3.

Works very well using Fluxbox as a WM.

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Buying Chromebooks for their hardware, not their OS RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-06 15:05 +0000
  Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware, not their OS Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-06 22:49 +0000
    Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware, not their OS greymausg <maus@mail.com> - 2014-03-07 09:09 +0000
    Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware, not their OS Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-07 10:46 +0000
  Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware, not their OS 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-03-06 18:12 -0500
  Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware, not their OS Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com> - 2014-03-07 07:23 +0000
    Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware, not their OS Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-03-07 07:49 +0000
      Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware, not their OS RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-07 10:21 +0000
        Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware, not their OS Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-03-07 11:49 +0000
          Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware, not their OS RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-07 12:21 +0000
            Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware, not their OS Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2014-03-07 19:43 -0400
        Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware  not their OS "wjwlsn" <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-03-07 15:02 -0600
    Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware, not their OS root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2014-03-07 19:24 +0000
      Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware, not their OS Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-03-07 19:48 +0000
      Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware, not their OS Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2014-03-07 21:52 +0000
        Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware, not their OS greymausg <maus@mail.com> - 2014-03-08 11:55 +0000
      Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware, not their OS Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-03-07 22:17 +0000
        Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware, not their OS Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2014-03-08 20:52 +0000
  Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware  not their OS "jonh" <jon@nada-sub.co.uk> - 2014-03-07 01:55 -0600
  Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware  not their OS "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-03-07 19:06 -0600
    Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware  not their OS "q.kontinuum" <achsis_of_elvis@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-03-17 07:53 +0100
      Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware  not their OS Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-17 14:22 +0000
      Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware  not their OS "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-03-18 14:46 -0600

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