I had good luck with my Chromebook (before cracking the screen on it), it was one of the cheap $200 models. I upgraded the RAM and rooted it. I actually spent most of my time in ChromeOS because it's very responsive and does 90% of what I need from a laptop (most of the rest of my work I reserve for my desktop).
The 10% I wanted to do (Arduino development) but couldn't from ChromeOS, I did from Kubuntu, which I installed on the hard drive of the Chromebook, and I could jump between the two very quickly. Note that the newer Chromebooks lack a hard drive, so you'd be pressed for space to get it to install a full distro on it, but you could replace/add an SSD to it fairly easily for most of them. Otherwise, for $200 or so, you really can't go wrong with them. And as a side benefit, none of your purchase amount goes back to Microsoft for the MS Tax! Pleasantly, Ronald Bynoe ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of [email protected] [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2014 8:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [PLUG] Need a new laptop Hey Pluggers, I find myself suddenly in need of a new laptop. My requirements are: - Runs Linux well (including Wi-Fi) - Light weight - my current netbook is 3 pounds - Long battery life (8-10 hours) I don't need much horsepower. I just need to take notes, browse the web, and run OpenVPN occasionally. Does anyone have any recommendations for systems I should consider, or ones I should nix? Thanks in advance. -Brian ------------------------------------------- Brian P. Martin Martin Consulting Services, Inc. UNIX & Linux System Administration, Training, and Programming Telephone: 503 617-4500 E-mail: [email protected] Web-site: www.martinconsulting.com _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
