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I have an Asus Flip Chromebook. It doesn't do 15 hours, merely 10, but it's very light, pretty cheap (I bought mine in the UK for £250, but I've seen it in the
by david-given 10y ago
I have an Asus Flip Chromebook. It doesn't do 15 hours, merely 10, but it's very light, pretty cheap (I bought mine in the UK for £250, but I've seen it in the US down at about $150), has 4GB RAM and a quad core ARM processor making it plenty fast enough for development, and it's even got a reasonable keyboard.
Minor features: capacitative touchscreen, screen that folds all the way round for use in tablet mode, MicroSD card slot, nice big clicky touchpad, completely silent, and a metal case.
http://www.trustedreviews.com/asus-chromebook-c201-review http://www.trustedreviews.com/asus-chromebook-c201-review
I run ChromeOS on mine, with Debian in a chroot using Crouton; but I gather you can run Debian on it natively, although with some blobs:
https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Asus/C201 https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Asus/C201
- ansible 10y agoI have an Acer R11, which is similar. Crouton is a great project. Given the price and performance of current generation Chromebooks, I don't see much advantage in going for ARM systems right now.
- david-given 10y agoThe Flip is an ARM system!
- ansible 10y agoYes. What I mean is that the power consumption is a little better, but the current generation Intel Celerons have quite low power consumption too. One nice thing about x86-64 is that you can also run closed-source apps like games. For example, after having installed Crouton, I was able to install Steam and play some of the Linux games in my library.