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Samsung's A15 Chromebook Loaded With Ubuntu Is Crazy Fast

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Re: Samsung's A15 Chromebook Loaded With Ubuntu Is Crazy Fast

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Post by wheaties »

zokier wrote: post #67
wheaties wrote: post #64

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Ugh. I read this and cry inside. Perfectly brilliant idea that I didn't even think of. Why? I just purchased a new ultra book burdened by Windows 8 pre-installed. If I switch to the legacy BIOS the machine won't boot up, period. The only way to get the machine to work is through Windows 8. No installing Linux, no changing firmware, no nothing. Wonderful little box that's magnificently useless for systems level progra…

Why would you switch to legacy BIOS mode? Linux support UEFI just fine afaik.

Which ones? I've tried Ubuntu and Mint but not Fedora. I tried googling it but all I ended up with was a several pages of articles talking about UEFI and the secure boot without a single link TO a Linux that did it. I'm dying to know 'cause I can't stand another minute on Windows 8.

Re: Samsung's A15 Chromebook Loaded With Ubuntu Is Crazy Fast

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Post by mtgx »

jsnell wrote: post #36
mtgx wrote: post #13

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It only has a 4,000 mAh (15 Whr) battery, smaller even than Nexus 7's 4,300 mAh battery, and considering it also has a much larger 12" screen (more than twice screen area), the battery life would also be smaller than Nexus 7. Nexus 10 has a 9,000 mAh battery, which is also used to compensate for the 2560x1600 resolution. iPad 3/4 has 11,500 mAh and it's pushing 1 million fewer pixels for comparison's sake. But I agre…

Please don't try to compare battery capacity by looking at just the current*time. That's an irrelevant number if the voltages aren't the same. The Chromebook has a 30Wh battery, which is twice the size of Nexus 7's.

It has a 2 cell battery. I doubt it's 30W.

Re: Samsung's A15 Chromebook Loaded With Ubuntu Is Crazy Fast

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Post by zokier »

wheaties wrote: post #91
zokier wrote: post #67

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Why would you switch to legacy BIOS mode? Linux support UEFI just fine afaik.

Which ones? I've tried Ubuntu and Mint but not Fedora. I tried googling it but all I ended up with was a several pages of articles talking about UEFI and the secure boot without a single link TO a Linux that did it. I'm dying to know 'cause I can't stand another minute on Windows 8.

I haven't actually tried Arch on UEFI, but their wiki page seems fairly extensive on the topic. Ubuntu documentation also shows UEFI support, but their documentation is bit vague.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unified_Extensible_Firm...

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UEFI_Bootloaders

Of course I wouldn't be terribly surprised if your UEFI has some bug that prevents Linux from booting.

Re: Samsung's A15 Chromebook Loaded With Ubuntu Is Crazy Fast

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Post by jsnell »

mtgx wrote: post #92
jsnell wrote: post #36

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Please don't try to compare battery capacity by looking at just the current*time. That's an irrelevant number if the voltages aren't the same. The Chromebook has a 30Wh battery, which is twice the size of Nexus 7's.

It has a 2 cell battery. I doubt it's 30W.

So when I suggested that mAh wasn't the optimal unit for measuring capacity, the implication wasn't that you should measure by number of cells instead. It has a 30Wh battery as even minimal research would show:

http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/mobile/Google/Chromebook...

Re: Samsung's A15 Chromebook Loaded With Ubuntu Is Crazy Fast

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Post by aidenn0 »

3amOpsGuy wrote: post #81
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #77

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I'd rather get hit in the crotch than use Firefox over X forwarding. Slow on top of slow. There is some interesting work with NX and NX-like solutions that make it much more tolerable.

Haha :) I keep going back to X over SSH. Out of VNC, RDP and NX, VNC is the lame duck. Out of RDP & NX, both require extra software but RDP is more widely re-usable (virtual box, windows etc). The bandwidth requirements aren't the problem with X these days - a 3G connection at under 1Mbps real world is fine for reasonable display sizes, it's the round trip latency is the killer. It's such a chatty protocol, but on a…

nx is way faster than rdp if you have a large display
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