[TriLUG] An update on my crazy laptop shopping

[Ken MacKenzie]

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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