[TriLUG] An update on my crazy laptop shopping

[Jeremy Davis]

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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