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Old 08-07-2014, 09:29 PM   #704
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Originally Posted by sl42 View Post
I've been eyeing up chromebooks for some time now, particularly the Acer C720. Right now I'm running a very underpowered Atom netbook with one gig of ram, with Xubuntu 14.04. A C720 with 4GB of ram would be a significant upgrade from my current hardware, and for once I wouldn't be paying Microsoft for an OS that will never boot or get to run on any of my hardware. Couldn't care less whether Chrome-OS is useful/usable or not - either the hardware is worth the price or it isn't, and a lot of these Chromebooks offer great hardware and a great price - Who cares what OS the manufacturer installed? Hell, who cares if it even has an OS installed?
... Keeping in mind that as a typical Chromebook, it has only 32 GB storage.

What will you do with it if you decide to keep the hardware but not the software? Go around everywhere with an External HDD?

It doesn't seem to use a run-of-the mill SSD, so you would have to buy something like this: http://amzn.com/B00EZ2E8NO it would seem. Not so much of problem, except that is another $80+ onto the cost.

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