Acer C720 Chromebook (was: Re: looking for new netbook)

2015-01-07 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, November 27, 2014 a las 10:43:42AM +0100, Matthias Apitz escribió: I'm looking for a new netbook laptop; my old EeePC 900 (from 2008) has to short battery time, and the Acer Aspire One D250 has a problem with the display (from time to time goes completely white, the system is

Re: Acer C720 Chromebook (was: Re: looking for new netbook)

2015-01-07 Thread Jia-Shiun Li
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 4:08 AM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: When researching this machine a couple of weeks back, I saw somewhere that it was based on a similar existing PC-compatible Acer model, V3 or V5 maybe, or the ES1 series (can't find the reference again, of course). But

Re: Acer C720 Chromebook (was: Re: looking for new netbook)

2015-01-07 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 7 Jan 2015, Matthias Apitz wrote: The keyboard of the C720, in principle a normal PC105, mine with German layout QWERTZ, is a bit tricky: it has - only F-keys from F1 to F10 and they are labeled with symbols for the ChromeOS applications; - no hardware power-off (only by an ACPI key