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Interesting, very interesting. Until now, I was believed the point was just to make a cheapass machine that ran from web, not that the intention was make it fa
by speeder 14y ago
Interesting, very interesting.
Until now, I was believed the point was just to make a cheapass machine that ran from web, not that the intention was make it fast.
Unfortunately, it ended as cheapass machines that run from the web, and not as good machines that are fast.
The day that I can use it 100% offline, I will jump in ;)
- Nursie 14y agoThey do run ChromeOS very fast. My XE303 Recovers from sleep in an unnoticeable amount of time, and boots from cold in mere seconds. The browser starts pretty much instantaneously. If you want to use an in-memory linux offline you might look at things like Puppy and the various other old-school live distros. Several of them pioneered in this space though they didn't stick to lightweight stuff in quite the same way as chromeOS
- mtgx 14y agoI think ChromeOS is significantly faster than Chrome on Windows 7, on the same hardware. But of course you can't compare a $1000 Windows machine with a $250 Chromebook, because obviously the $1000 machine has much faster hardware to make up for the difference. In the same time I don't think a $1000 Chromebook would be worth it, as the bottleneck at that point is not the CPU, but network connection. And do you really expect to run "web apps" 100% offline all the time? Then you're missing the point. Chromebooks are for an all-connected world, not for one where you still do most stuff online.