[Chester LUG] Chromebook

Michael Crilly mrcrilly at gmail.com
Fri Aug 23 14:55:18 UTC 2013


That sounds bliss. How do you work around the 16GB disk space limit? I
assume you primarily use it for simple tasks?

-MC


On 23 August 2013 15:51, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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