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But which Chromebook is it and is it good? (touchpad, smooth two-finger scrolling, screen etc.)

by k_bx 9y ago

TheAdamAndChe 9y ago
I'm not OP, but I have a similar setup and use an Asus C201P, which was $179 when I bought it. It's got an ARMv7-based dual core 1.8GHz processor with 16GB of internal storage. It's really surprisingly good for the price point, but the hardware doesn't compare to a $2k machine obviously. The crouton setup isn't perfect right out of the box. The brightness and volume buttons don't work immediately, and because I'm too lazy to configure hotkeys, I just use the terminal to adjust those. I haven't been able to get virtualization to work due to difficulties with the chroot environment. It does mostly work though. This setup obviously isn't the best or strongest, but it was good enough for me to get through university. Nowadays, I mostly use it for local password management, torrenting, uploading ebooks onto my kindle, and running network scans, then I use ChromeOS for the rest.
ansible 9y ago
I've got an Acer R11. Reasons for selection include: 1. Flip it completely open and use it as a tablet. Unfortunately, at around 1kg in weight, it doesn't quite work as well as a regular tablet, and I haven't used that mode much. 2. Early support for Android apps. This works OK. 3. Decent keyboard. It is close enough to full-sized that I've got decent speed on it. I really miss caps-lock though. 4. Low weight (for a laptop) and good battery life. 5. 4GB RAM and decent processor (for a Chromebook). Lots of Chromebooks may only have 2GB. 6. SD Card slot. Downsides: 1. 1366x768 screen. It doesn't bother me in practice, but I'd have preferred full HD. 2. Dual-core processor. At the time I bought it, Acer had quad-cores with 2GB of RAM, or dual-cores with 4GB RAM, and I opted for the latter. I've more recently seen them selling with quad cores, 4GB RAM, and 32GB internal storage. I'm not super picky about the touchpad and scrolling, though I'm sure it is not as smooth as other devices. I do bump the touchpad with my palms enough that I've needed to disable tap-to-click though.

But which Chromebook is it and is it good? (touchpad, smooth two-finger scrolling, screen etc.)

by k_bx 9y ago

But which Chromebook is it and is it good? (touchpad, smooth two-finger scrolling, screen etc.)

I'm not OP, but I have a similar setup and use an Asus C201P, which was $179 when I bought it. It's got an ARMv7-based dual core 1.8GHz processor with 16GB of internal storage. It's really surprisingly good for the price point, but the hardware doesn't compare to a $2k machine obviously. The crouton setup isn't perfect right out of the box. The brightness and volume buttons don't work immediately, and because I'm too lazy to configure hotkeys, I just use the terminal to adjust those. I haven't been able to get virtualization to work due to difficulties with the chroot environment. It does mostly work though. This setup obviously isn't the best or strongest, but it was good enough for me to get through university. Nowadays, I mostly use it for local password management, torrenting, uploading ebooks onto my kindle, and running network scans, then I use ChromeOS for the rest.

ansible 9y ago

I've got an Acer R11. Reasons for selection include: 1. Flip it completely open and use it as a tablet. Unfortunately, at around 1kg in weight, it doesn't quite work as well as a regular tablet, and I haven't used that mode much. 2. Early support for Android apps. This works OK. 3. Decent keyboard. It is close enough to full-sized that I've got decent speed on it. I really miss caps-lock though. 4. Low weight (for a laptop) and good battery life. 5. 4GB RAM and decent processor (for a Chromebook). Lots of Chromebooks may only have 2GB. 6. SD Card slot. Downsides: 1. 1366x768 screen. It doesn't bother me in practice, but I'd have preferred full HD. 2. Dual-core processor. At the time I bought it, Acer had quad-cores with 2GB of RAM, or dual-cores with 4GB RAM, and I opted for the latter. I've more recently seen them selling with quad cores, 4GB RAM, and 32GB internal storage. I'm not super picky about the touchpad and scrolling, though I'm sure it is not as smooth as other devices. I do bump the touchpad with my palms enough that I've needed to disable tap-to-click though.