Fair enough. Considering what I paid for my Chromebook (refurbed), you'd
probably end up paying more for an AC100 plus all the upgrade
components, not to mention the time and effort to make the modifications.
Having said that - I haven't opened up my Chromebook to investigate
upgradability yet. :)
Gordan
On 09/30/2013 07:27 PM, Ian Perkins wrote:
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]
<mailto:[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] <mailto:[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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