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	wicket	2015-04-10 , 01:03
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Originally Posted by sulu

I've read about that some time ago. Wasn't that essentially replacing the ChromeOS userland with an Ubuntu userland while keeping the ChromeOS kernel? iirc that seems like a very poor alternative because at some point in the future you'll run into the same kind of problems with this ChromeOS kernel as we are here with our ancient Fremantle kernel on our N900.

You're right, it's not ideal but the components tend to be relatively common compared with smartphone hardware so there's a reasonably chance of drivers being upstreamed. It's still a much better situation than buying a laptop where Linux isn't officially supported and you may be missing some Linux drivers altogether, thus you're unable to use some of the hardware. That said, even if you buy a laptop where the vendor does support Linux, that doesn't mean that they are going to upstream drivers so I don't think the situation is any different.

Since when where we stuck with an ancient kernel on our N900s? :P

Originally Posted by sulu

In advance: Sorry for the partly German links. I'm too lazy right now to check for English versions.
Notebookcheck says the CB30 runs 7 hours with wifi on battery [1]. The same goes for the ES1 [2] and I think 6.5 hours for the V3 [3] still counts as similar.

The CB30 is an older model. The Toshiba Chromebook 2 (CB35-B3340) supports up to 9 hours.

Originally Posted by sulu

I don't know the US market. I only checked the German/EU market. Here your CB30 costs 320 Euros. All the alternatives I mentioned cost between 250 and 400 Euros.

Really? I got that figure straight from Lenovo's website. I'm not interested in the others you mentioned as they are missing a full HD display.

Meanwhile, the CB35-B3340 has dropped 30USD and is only 300USD from Amazon.

Originally Posted by kureyon

That is until Google release an update that renders your SD card useless like they've done with Android 4.4.2 (and probably subsequent versions).

I think you missed the part where I said I won't be running a Google OS on the device.

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Last edited by wicket; 2015-04-10 at 01:30.

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