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Re:Giving up the iPad-only travel dream by hattmall on Friday August 25, 2023 @05:37PM (#37267334)
That's exactly what I have with a convertible Chromebook. Super Snappy ChromeOS for web browsing. It can run Android apps, or stream them from my phone. Flip it around and it's a BIG tablet. 15.6" 4k screen. Going back into computer mode I can run full blown Linux, very quickly via Crouton or virtualized slightly less quick with official Crostini. Can also do a lot of the terminal stuff directly in the ChromeOS shell. In either Linux environment I can emulate Windows via QEMU/KVM. It's as fast as native in Crouton, again a bit slower in Crostini. Lightweight,long battery life, charges over USB-C will fast charge my phone and interfaces seamlessly with the phone for tethering that doesn't use hotspot data and doing messages notifications, etc.
Re:Giving up the iPad-only travel dream by eddd-ddde on Friday August 25, 2023 @05:45PM (#37267409)
I'm interested on getting a chromebook. Is the linux experience really great? Which hardware would you recommend?
Re:Giving up the iPad-only travel dream by timestretch on Friday August 25, 2023 @05:48PM (#37267433)
Sounds interesting. What model did you get? Does it have a stylus?
Re:Giving up the iPad-only travel dream by moondev on Friday August 25, 2023 @07:25PM (#37268282)
Most people have no idea how capable Chromebooks are. My framework Chromebook has 64G of RAM and plenty of cores to handle anything, even running macOS via KVM