Depending on what your primary use-case and requirements
arei, and whether you are prepared to do any modifying,
you may want to wait for my Toshiba AC100 install
instructions, and a comparative review between the two.
While I think the Chromebook is great value in terms of
performance, for general day-to-day use I find the
AC100 "better". Obviously, this is somewhat subjective.
I'll try to summarize here:
Chromebook's Pros:
- ~ 50% faster than my _modified_ AC100 (which is itself
40% faster than a vanila AC100)
- _Slightly_ higher res screen (1366x768) than my
_modified_ AC100 (1280x720 - standard is 1024x600)
- Two USB ports (1 on AC100)
AC100s Pros:
- Smaller/Lighter (10" vs 11.6")
- Modifiable for more/better internal storage. See:
http://www.altechnative.net/2012/01/24/morebetter-internal-storage-on-the-toshiba-ac100/
http://www.altechnative.net/2012/02/07/morebetter-internal-storage-on-the-toshiba-ac100-part-2/
- Touchpad much better - two discrete buttons.
Chromebook touchpad is so bad you can click it by
just gently flexing the front of the casing.
- Keyboard better - unlike the Chromebook it has:
Home/End, Insert/Del, PgUp/PgDown keys.
The last two alone easily offset the advantages of
the Chromebook, in my personal view, as far as use
on the go is concerned.
Having said that - I am comparing my heavily
modified AC100 to an unmodified Chromebook. The
40% overclock (with a cooling mod) and a higher
res screen are quite an equalizer. Still not quite
as good, but I feel the better mouse and keyboard
win overall.
Then again, if your main use case is development
with a lot of compiling, Chromebook is probably a
better choice. It certainly makes for a good, cheap
build farm machine, and the extra RAM helps for that,
too - if you can solve the storage performance issue
somehow.
Gordan
On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 12:32:10 -0400, Ian Perkins <[email protected]>
wrote:
Thanks, Gordan! Might have to put that Chromebook on the holiday
wishlist now...
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
... are now on the wiki. They are based on dual-booting RSEL6 from
an
SD card.
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