[GTALUG] good deal on netbook; war story: putting Fedora on it

[William Park]

For me, similar start but different end.  I bought HP Chromebook 11 G3
for about $200 also.  I ran (still do) Kubuntu through Crouton/Dev mode.
Initially, I liked it.  Then, 
    - the battery died.  I bought a replacement, and it too died in 3
      months.
    - WiFi doesn't connect when coming out of "sleep" mode.
    - I bought 64GB ultra fast Samsung microSD, to install and run
      Kubuntu from the microSD.
    - Right now, I have it always plugged in, which defeats the purpose
      of Chromebook.

In the end, though, it turned out to be $400 lesson.  That's why I'm not
too keen on these little toys, whose primary purpose is to clear out
inventories of old obsolete parts or to keep production lines going
until payback is reached.
-- 
William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>

On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 03:41:30PM -0500, Christopher Browne via talk wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 at 22:53, William Park via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
> > Just curious... Where/how do you use these little computers?  I mean,
> > $300 here, $200 there, $100 upgrade, $50 ram, $25 microSD, etc. they all
> > add up.
> 
> I have been carrying around a Chromebook running Linux-y bits via Crouton
> for 3.5+ years now; it's coming towards the end of its lifespan, and only
> cost me a bit past $200, with no extras adding up.
> 
> Quoting my own email from 2015-03-15 on this list...
> 
> "I'm liking my Samsung ARM-based Chromebook well enough; I'm running
> Debian "in behind" via the Crouton layer, which has been working fine.
> I'll bet that by the time I care for something more, there will be a
> newer model with more storage, memory, and CPU than I presently have."
> 
> It's 2018, and the reason I'm looking for something newer mostly has to do
> with the fact that such a cheap laptop has a fairly fragile case, so it's
> beginning to age a bit ungracefully.  That something newer has
> greater capacity is fine.
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> question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"
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