Compared to what I have been trying to do to get a Cubox kernel compiled (spin up an Amazon Fedora AMI, then nuke it when my window of opportunity closes, rinse, repeat, although it did finally occur to me to snapshot the thing, so I could pick up where I left off...), the Chromebook looks good. And I got used to a Macbook keyboard (without all of those keys, like you would find on a standard keyboard), so I am probably OK there as well. I only lack time and money... and probably sanity.
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Gordan Bobic <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/2012/01/24/morebetter-internal-storage-on-the-toshiba-ac100/> > http://www.altechnative.net/**2012/02/07/morebetter-** > internal-storage-on-the-**toshiba-ac100-part-2/<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. >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> users mailing list >> [email protected] [2] >> >> http://lists.redsleeve.org/**mailman/listinfo/users<http://lists.redsleeve.org/mailman/listinfo/users>[3] >> > > ______________________________**_________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.redsleeve.org/**mailman/listinfo/users<http://lists.redsleeve.org/mailman/listinfo/users> > -- Thanks, Ian M Perkins
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