[TriLUG] An update on my crazy laptop shopping

Ken MacKenzie ken at mack-z.com
Mon Mar 10 12:45:59 EDT 2014


Just saw the reminder and put the info in my calendar.  No promises yet but
I should be by there with any luck.

Ken


On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Ken MacKenzie <ken at mack-z.com> wrote:

> I went the crouton option to install debian in a chroot.  For now...  All
> things being equal I can see mysef using chrome most of the time without
> the need to jump to debian.
>
> Ken
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Jeremy Davis <jeremyhwllc at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> So is that dual boot or did you wipe the ChromeOS?
>>
>> I bought Chromebooks for my 2 kids after a lousy ipad experience.
>> Chromebooks have worked out awesome. They are light, durable, fast, and
>> they just freakin work.
>>
>> Our Mac hijacked my entire day yesterday for maintenance and it still
>> seems
>> to run like crap. We have the Adobe suite on it for graphic design work so
>> we are currently vendor locked to it. I started looking into Chromebooks
>> and Pixels yesterday and found that the Chrome app environment is getting
>> richer all the time. It appears to be possible now to do cloud based
>> graphic design work. If so, it will be nice to escape the maintenance
>> drawbacks of Mac and Microsoft. It is also nice that I can do everything
>> from my Linux box too with a Chrome browser.
>> On Mar 10, 2014 10:38 AM, "Ken MacKenzie" <ken at mack-z.com> wrote:
>>
>> > So... I ended up getting an HP Chromebook 14 with 4g of ram and the
>> > t-mobile 200mb a month for life setup.  It was 349 at wal mart, yeah i
>> know
>> > but only local vendor so why not...
>> >
>> > Already have crouton with debian wheezy installed.  Very impressed.
>>  Most
>> > everything works so far.  Only weird snag is that in crouton on debian
>> > (xfce) tap to click does not work.  Minor snag and I will sort it out
>> soon
>> > enough.
>> >
>> > Anyway great battery life, good typing comfort, excellent performance
>> and
>> > connectivity, I must say I am pleased thus far.  I got 2 weeks in the
>> > return policy to put it through its paces so that is what I am doing.
>>  Heck
>> > it might cause me to sell my ipad...
>> >
>> > Ken
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