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 ...
Best Buy has been advertising a Black Frday deal for a low-end Lenovo laptop for under $200
Guess I’ll wait for someone else to publish the english version of this article later. ;-)
Probably also comes with some Google tracking software....
but you use a mouse....I forgot about that...or is that right.
need to read further.
How about the practical side of things? You replace Google’s OS with Linux, and what happens? There is a deal with Google re cloud storage, support, etc. Details, please.
Silly question: would we be able to run “Final Cut Pro” or Sony Vegas on this guy...?
It would not run software made for windows, then..? Like it could not run Word?
Silly question: would we be able to run “Final Cut Pro” or Sony Vegas on this guy...?
It would not run software made for windows, then..? Like it could not run Word?
Everyone seems to be thingking since it is”a chromebook” they CAN NOT change the OS.....yet article points out that you can.
Android operating system makes it useless with business applications. Additionally, the last Andriod update has just about rendered my Asus tablet frustrating to use for just about any application
Non Windows?
Ubuntu is not an android system, it is a Linux distro.
It comes with a complete business suite that can create and open any Microsoft office file.
The combination of fast processor and the solid state hard drive should make it very fast. Linux takes advantage of increased SSD speeds, microsoft products do not handle this well yet.
There was a good review of this over on engadget. The screen is pretty low res. I know that people have gotten Ubuntu 12.04 LTS running on it but I thought I read that only an unofficial Alpha build was available. Have they made more progress on that front?
Yes, but that the only practical detail that the article offers.
Don't know,...I have been ignoring most of the ARM hardware for personal use considerations,...although I knew Ubuntu was doing development on a version,
I guess the price caught my eye.
And the fact that you could load your own OS could make it interesting....
Support questions always get into another whole area.
Distrowatch search:
Thanks for the info. So you would have to purchase Windows OS or MS Office suite or both?
Thanks....will look at that.
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