[EdLUG] Laptops

[Edinburgh Linux Users Group]

Just going to jump in here, I have heard very good that NGOs about chromebooks, (there is also chromium so for non proprietary). The one thing to watch out for is arm processors (unless you're expecting it). I believe the Toshiba chromebook 2 is the laptop being referenced below.

In short, chromebook seem to be doing pretty well with regards to decent battery life, easy use, and not Microsoft

Regards,

Hamish

> On 7 Jun 2016, at 17:29, Edinburgh Linux Users Group <edlug at lists.edlug.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> Reading the "Buying a laptop without Windows" threads I thought some may be interested, as a BTW FYI in this:
> 
> My lad has a Chromebook, it's a very nice Toshiba thing with a high res display.  He's used something called crouton (https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton) to install Ubuntu into a tab in the Chrome browser.  He's then installed mono and downloaded mono apps (written in .NET on windows) and runs them. It works quite nicely.  So that's Microsoft apps running on linux running on chromeOS.  Cool.
> 
> Dick
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