sounds like a net top would be perfect for you then. they are a netbook without the keyboard battery and screen. install centos on it and leave it alone. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Description=nettops&Submit=ENE On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 2:39 PM, keith smith wrote: > > I think they have more value than just browsing the web. I am a LAMP > dev. I use a cheap HP Laptop as my dev server. It is not much better than > this Chromebook and I'm using a HP Pavilion g6 (cheap and on sale) for my > workstation - very bottom of the line. > > For instance, a fellow PLUG member was walking me through setting up a > virtual machine. He was using a netbook with the Intel chip that was prior > to the Intel Atom N455 and he was beating me. I am running an AMD A4-3300 > running at 1.9GHtz and 4GB RAM. I think his netbook was running at 1.3GHz > and it probably had only 1GB RAM. > > I think these cheap Netbook are more powerful than they might seem. I > would not use one if I were a designer because they might not have enough > power. However I find them to be very useful and they are cheap. > > I know they are way more powerful than my old broken down 11 year old > laptop running a 1Ghz Celeron w/256MB RAM. 2 years ago I loaded CentOS on > it and configured it to run as a mail server using Qmail Toaster. It was > only a test, however it ran just fine. > > I've been toying with configuring a Netbook as a public facing LAMP web > server for testing. > > The Tucson Free Unix Group (TFUG) used a laptop for a couple years to > serve their website. Not for an active website, however it worked just > find. AND it served the mailing list. > > For me the computer is waiting most of the time for me to type so these > small cheap computers work well. If I were compiling C or C++ all the time > I would want something substantially faster, however I am not. > > Anyone else using Netbooks or cheap laptops in a production environment? > > > ------------------------ > Keith Smith > > --- On *Mon, 1/14/13, Stephen * wrote: > > > From: Stephen > Subject: Re: Has anyone here tried a Chromebook? > To: "Main PLUG discussion list" > Date: Monday, January 14, 2013, 12:02 PM > > The Pros are its cost/performance. They generally run very well for what > they do. The battery life is pretty good also. > The cons you cannot fall back to Firefox for sites that will not allow > chrome, and you are using a small net-book that is 100% purpose built to > run just a browser. > > Within that there are a number of tools giving you a great deal of > functionality inside the chrome browser as a plugin. One of my favorites of > these is an SSH client. they also have RDP and VNC clients as well. so in a > pinch you can remote someplace and get something done.. > > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:41 AM, > > wrote: > > > Thanks for sharing this, Keith. > Seems like a Chromebook might be excellent for travel. > One can readily see some good "pros" ... what are the "cons"? > > > https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=chromebook_acer_c710&utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-ha-na-us-gdn-acer&utm_medium=ha > > How superior is Intel Atom N455 dual core performance than Intel Celeron > dual core? > > Seems like the Samsung Chromebook at $249 is better in a lot of ways. > Longer battery life and perhaps better construction. > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > -- > A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from > rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. > > Stephen > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen