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Re: HP Chromebook 11

#11
post #7

Hemingway said that one goes broke "gradually, then suddenly." I hope the same thing is happening to Windows marketshare. I hope the same thing is happening to iOS. edit: Note that I said "marketshare." I'm not wishing bankruptcy on Apple and Microsoft. It would be a weird desire.

Why exactly do you hope those two go broke in favour of Google? Or is that not the intent of your writing?

Re: HP Chromebook 11

#15
post #3

Only available in the UK and US. How unfortunate. Following the link for the US to Amazon, the HP Chromebook is nowhere to be seen on the resulting page. http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=2858603011

The UK link is possibly even worse!

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/chromebook-1460-commercial.htm...

Re: HP Chromebook 11

#16
This is interesting timing, as I am really considering purchasing a chromebook. There are a few things that I am still curious about:

1. does netflix work ? I know that there was some chromebooks that it did not work on. 2. Any one have any experience with playing flash videos? 3. If linux is put onto it using crouton or similar, is it a severly limit set of packages due to the architecture or does it run quiet well.

I want a very casual system that I can occasionally use for some writing/coding. I also have a VPS which I would ssh into for most (if not all) coding.

Re: HP Chromebook 11

#17
Is the difference between this and the $250 Samsung chromebook basically just the case? Same resolution, same amount of RAM, same tiny SSD.

Re: HP Chromebook 11

#18
post #7

Hemingway said that one goes broke "gradually, then suddenly." I hope the same thing is happening to Windows marketshare. I hope the same thing is happening to iOS. edit: Note that I said "marketshare." I'm not wishing bankruptcy on Apple and Microsoft. It would be a weird desire.

why would you hope for something like that? what do you gain if Windows/iOS/OSX go broke?

Re: HP Chromebook 11

#20
post #9

serious work=>Laptop, casual work=>tablet, ? => chromebook

What sort of casual work would be better on a tablet than on the chromebook? Answering emails would be better with a dedicated keyboard, as would navigating in a web browser.

For casual use otherwise (movies, books, angrybirds/candy crush style games), then a tablet is probably a better tool.

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