Nice machine for the money

All Chromebooks (with the Acer exception) only have an SSD, not a hard disk, so you don't have huge amounts of space - depends what you want to do really. Any Chromebook has a fairly low powered processor so you will need to have a lightweight Linux distro (no Gnome or KDE).

Things like BT Sport won't work (without huge amounts of nerds) on any Linux for example. And streams sometimes get tricky too (ie often they don't work).

Having said that, it's fun finding out how to do things like this - you'll learn a lot. And Chrome is a pretty good operating system. More and more apps work without needing Internet connection. I got a free 100Gb extra Google Drive subscription with my HP Chromebook.

Note I have two PCs, one laptop, one chromebook, one Android tablet (rooted) and five Raspberry Pis. I may not be the best person to tell you that it's fun.....

Posted By: the101ers on January 22nd 2014 at 18:53:22

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FAO Pants re Chromebooks (General Chat) - the101ers, Jan 22, 18:15:03
- was this one (General Chat) - pants, Jan 22, 18:23:00
  - Nice machine for the money (General Chat) - the101ers, Jan 22, 18:53:22
  - Samsung chromebook and linux is hard (General Chat) - Johnny Comecardiff, Jan 22, 18:35:35
    - And when you do, use Chrubuntu to install (General Chat) - Johnny Comecardiff, Jan 22, 18:38:04
      - instructions here (General Chat) - Johnny Comecardiff, Jan 22, 18:49:19
    - the reason its hard is the processor BTW. T (n/m) (General Chat) - Johnny Comecardiff, Jan 22, 18:36:45

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