[Chester LUG] Chromebook

Les Pritchard les.pritchard at gmail.com
Fri Aug 23 14:51:52 UTC 2013


Well I've been using one running Chrome OS and then Ubuntu in a chroot and
that works very well. Battery life is great and it's nice and light to
carry around.

Probably one of the best Linux laptops I've used as most suffer from poor
battery life or hardware support.


On 23 August 2013 15:45, Michael Crilly <mrcrilly at gmail.com> wrote:

> Very nice. I've always wondered about using them for something other than
> Chrome OS which, quite frankly, I don't trust (which of course contradicts
> the very fact I am using GMail to send this very message).
>
> -MC
>
>
> On 23 August 2013 11:15, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> As we've had quite a few discussions (and a demo) about running Linux on
>> a Chromebook, I thought it was worth mentioning that the Samsung ARM model
>> has been reduced to £198 on Amazon!!
>>
>>
>> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Chromebook-Wifi-Launched-2012/dp/B009RF0AQ8/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1377250783&sr=8-8&keywords=chromecast
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