[Chester LUG] Chromebook

Stuart Burns stuart.james.burns at gmail.com
Fri Aug 23 14:56:09 UTC 2013


some SD card I think


On 23 August 2013 15:55, Michael Crilly <mrcrilly at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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