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Re:Chromebook (Exynos 5, 2GB) Takes Top Place In Laptop Sale... by macspoofing on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @11:24AM (#4997413)
Do you do anything besides typical "web-stuff" on it? Granted, I spend quite a bit of time in my browser, but then I have that pesky development-thing I do. I like my iPad, but it hasn't replaced my laptop.
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Re:Chromebook (Exynos 5, 2GB) Takes Top Place In Laptop Sale... by EwanToo on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @11:30AM (#4997436)
I do a lot of ssh stuff from it, there's a pretty decent ssh client available and that helps a lot.

When I first got it, the default ssh client was javascript based, but you could get the native code version by joining a specific Google group and then installing a development version of the same ssh client, not sure if thats changed yet

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Re:Chromebook (Exynos 5, 2GB) Takes Top Place In Laptop Sale... by georgemcbay on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @01:38PM (#4998319)
If you find ChromeOS limiting, you can always install a full Linux distro on the machine.

My Samsung ARM Chromebook has two partitions, one of which loads into ChromeOS and one which loads into a full Ubuntu/ARM rootfs.

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Re:Chromebook (Exynos 5, 2GB) Takes Top Place In Laptop Sale... by EwanToo on Thursday January 03, 2013 @07:40AM (#5002066)
How do you find Ubuntu on it? I bought by arm chromebook totally expecting to put ubuntu on it, but I've just never got round to it
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