Thread: Google Releases $1299 Chromebook
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Old 06-02-2013, 05:43 PM   #134
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I am liking the brand new 14" HP Chromebook.
It says it can be 16 or 32GB but gives no options or costs for buying.
It has 2GB Ram but no info on increasing.
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Also how easy to make it dual boot Ubuntu?
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I never buy a minimal machine.
Dell has a nice ultrabook with Ubuntu pre-installed with working drivers for all hardware. The patches to make the hardware work have been submitted and accepted upstream, so eventually everything should work for all linux distributions and the impatient can get hold of the source code and roll their own.

http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd

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