New $250 Chromebook

Re:New $250 Chromebook by mtgx on Thursday October 18, 2012 @01:44PM (#4669947)

This also probably runs a lot better with this chip and ChromeOS. I have one of those old netbooks myself with Windows 7, and the experience is very frustrating. You can't even switch to a different Chrome tab sometimes because the CPU is too busy loading another tab.

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Re:New $250 Chromebook by MatthewPhillips on Thursday October 18, 2012 @02:24PM (#4670205)

I have the 1st gen Chromebook with an atom and the experience is the same, laggy.

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Re:New $250 Chromebook by Lewisham on Thursday October 18, 2012 @03:33PM (#4670619)

The last Chromebook (which I used as a Google Intern, so take with a pinch of salt) wasn't laggy at all. They're a lot better since Rev 1.

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Re:New $250 Chromebook by rbanffy on Thursday October 18, 2012 @08:24PM (#4671728)

I've been using a i5 Windows 7 box for some office work and it has been, by far, the worst desktop experience I had in years. For other activities, I'm using a first gen Acer netbook running Ubuntu on an Atom processor and it's much smoother.

The Atom is not the problem here.

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