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Is RAM upgradeable? does it take SATA HDs?
Dunno about RAM, I believe it takes mSATA drives. Waiting for someone to open it up to see how viable it is to upgrade.
The ram and nand is soldered to the board. It does have SD card expansion though.
I got mine last week, and I've been using it as my main machine since then. I put on a small Debian-based chroot and installed Guacamole[1]*, so I can use my favourite editor and X11 programs within a Chrome tab. Compiling large C/C++ programs takes a while, but the Go compilers (what I mostly use) work really well. And I can always SSH into beefier machines (Linode/University) if I ever need to. This replaced a Thin…
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Dunno about RAM, I believe it takes mSATA drives. Waiting for someone to open it up to see how viable it is to upgrade.
Here is a tear down: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6422/samsung-chromebook-xe303-... The ram and nand is soldered to the board. It does have SD card expansion though.
The A15 seems to be the same weight as the Macbook air. I always thought about buying an MBA, but I feared the hassle of installing Linux on it. Is the A15 my future development machine? All my development happens in ssh and firefox. So performance is not an issue.
>All my development happens in ssh and firefox. So performance is not an issue. Does that really bear out? I like the idea of a low-powered netbook connecting to a high-powered server for development, but in my (very limited) experience it's a pain. I have two machines, and old laptop with an AMD RM-70 and a Thinkpad X41 with a Pentium M 1.6 Ghz. On both machines, using Firefox is a painful experience because the per…
Why wouldnt it? Been doing it for years now and cannot think of any other way of development anymore.
ARM processor running Ubuntu? What kind of applications can you run on that? (Genuine question)
I got mine last week, and I've been using it as my main machine since then. I put on a small Debian-based chroot and installed Guacamole[1]*, so I can use my favourite editor and X11 programs within a Chrome tab. Compiling large C/C++ programs takes a while, but the Go compilers (what I mostly use) work really well. And I can always SSH into beefier machines (Linode/University) if I ever need to. This replaced a Thin…
ARM processor running Ubuntu? What kind of applications can you run on that? (Genuine question)
I got mine last week, and I've been using it as my main machine since then. I put on a small Debian-based chroot and installed Guacamole[1]*, so I can use my favourite editor and X11 programs within a Chrome tab. Compiling large C/C++ programs takes a while, but the Go compilers (what I mostly use) work really well. And I can always SSH into beefier machines (Linode/University) if I ever need to. This replaced a Thin…
Can you quantify the differences in compile speeds between Go and C++ on the device? In particular, I'm interested in using Go to replace some of my scripts.