Posted on 11/21/2012 12:47:45 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Google recently launched the Samsung Chromebook that for $249 USD features an 11-inch display, a 16GB SSD, a promise of 6.5-hour battery life, and is backed by a Samsung Exynos 5 SoC. The Samsung Exynos 5 packs a 1.7GHz dual-core ARM Cortex-A15 processor with ARM Mali-T604 graphics. With using this new ARM Cortex-A15 chip plus the Samsung Chromebook not being locked down so it can be loaded up with a Linux distribution like Ubuntu or openSUSE, it was a must-buy for carrying out some interesting Cortex-A15 Linux benchmarks. The Exynos 5 Dual in this affordable laptop packs an impressive performance punch.
I'm still in the process of setting up Ubuntu on the Samsung Chromebook for delivering Linux ARM Cortex A15 performance benchmarks, but already someone beat me to using the Phoronix Test Suite for carrying out benchmarks of the ARM A15. The results were shared via OpenBenchmarking.org.
These results are quite interesting as the independent user benchmarking the Samsung Chromebook compared it to the result file used for the previous tests of the Calxeda quad-core 1.1GHz and 1.4GHz Highbank server nodes, a TI OMAP4460 dual-core 1.2GHz PandaBoard ES, and an Intel Atom D525 x86_64 CPU running at 1.8GHz. The Chromebook was loaded with an early development snapshot of Ubuntu 13.04 with a Linux 3.4 kernel for Exynos 5 SoC.
(Excerpt) Read more at phoronix.com ...
So it will u could create and run word files with this? How about ru. Sony vegas...?
No you can’t run any Windows software applications (Office, Photoshop, etc) on this. Only Google’s apps that are all web based - although some have good offline modes (email, etc). This is a very lightweight type machine meant for doing research, email, watching movies online, etc. Can’t do real powerhouse type stuff at all.
See #22.
What about Open Office?
Ubuntu iasn’t a one and done release like windows or the apple stuff. It is constantly evolving, and runs on the newest hardware long before you ever see support from MS or the big A.
If anyone has a concern about supported hardware or CPU architecture, there is a huge official web presence complete with forums, tech and troubleshooting areas. Ask there. I personally do not have any bleeding edge equipment, but if I did, I would turn to Linux and probably the Ubuntu version of it for an OS.
Windows 8 apparently
Ubuntu is not Android, it’s Linux. Android runs the Linux kernel, but it’s a different OS.
Ubuntu 12.10 runs Wine impressively fast. I have UT3 and Office 2011 running via Wine.
There are options though. Libre Office has a megaton of functionality while being both free and lightweight.
I just thought of an obvious question to myself....
So there is a development Ubuntu version....13.0 that will run on this box, A15 Arm architecture...but my interest would be web browsing....and I prefer Firefox as the browser....
Not sure what they are doing to make their browser run on the ARM Architecture....
Open Office is actually very good.
Sure are there things it can’t do. Then again, you would also save money not needing to pay for virus protection
I need some kind of option. I REFUSE to buy Windows 8.
The one from Fry’s has 4GB of RAM instead of 2 as the Best Buy ad shows!!
Wow.
Better deal!
^^^No you can’t run any Windows software applications (Office, Photoshop, etc) on this. Only Google’s apps that are all web based - although some have good offline modes (email, etc). This is a very lightweight type machine meant for doing research, email, watching movies online, etc. Can’t do real powerhouse type stuff at all.^^^
Yes and no. Out of the box, this is a Google based product. But it isn’t locked. It has a 16gig solid state hard drive that can be wiped and Ubuntu (a linux version) can be installed on it. Ubuntu can do ANY thing currently being done on any PC or Apple product. There exists plenty of photoshop programs, video creation, office, sound, etc apps that are open source and intended for Linux distributions. Plus, these apps and programs are supplied at no cost.
AMD Dual-Core E-300 processor with Radeon HD 6310 integrated graphics For enhanced performance.
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Not sure where the E-300 sits on the low CPU power spectrum.
That would be a big negative...
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