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$250 Chromebook With Ubuntu Linux Is Very Fast

Posted by timothy on from the choices-getting-nicer dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Google Samsung Chromebook was already interesting for its competitive $250 price-tag and that it can be loaded with Linux distributions beyond Chrome OS, but it turns out that its performance is particularly good, too. When loaded with Ubuntu Linux, the Samsung Exynos 5 Dual ARM SoC on the Chrome notebook had outperformed a 1.8GHz Intel Atom, a quad-core Calxeda ARM server, and a TI OMAP4 PandaBoard."

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  1. 250$ buys you a lot of netbook... by Kenja · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    First off, that is an ugly web site. Their font choices are just bad. Second, they only compare the performance to simular system configurations rather then a regular Intel CPU based netbook. Makes it hard to determine if the performance is actually good without a frame of reference people can relate to.

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  2. Make it run even faster by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Use NetBSD. NetBSD is much faster than Linux. A lot less crap to start with. Of course, you have to know how to use a real Unix to handle it though.