Anyone using the new $199 Chromebook?

The Acer C7, I just picked it up the other day, great piece of hardware, I just wish there was more OS functionality, but that doesnt matter as chrubuntu is going on later today.

Great display,weak speakers, ok keyboard(the new Samsung has a better feeling keyboard), the dual core Celeron 847 is actually pretty capable for doing video and audio, it stays incredibly cool and I can never hear the fan going. I wish it had a mic/line in so I could do some of my guitar recording. The fact that the bios is not completely locked and I am able to put ubuntu 12.04 really makes it worth it. Now if someone figures out a way to install a version of windows or mac, this netbook would be unstoppable, or if google made it a way to easily access network servers/storage so I wouldnt have to install third party software on my server.
 
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I have one, and it's great. Obviously, if you decided to stick with ChromeOS you're stuck with browser-based computing, but Ubuntu is an option. As far as hardware, you can easily swap in an SSD and it supports up to 16GB of PC3 10666 RAM.
 
[UPS] Sorce;1039485849 said:
I have one, and it's great. Obviously, if you decided to stick with ChromeOS you're stuck with browser-based computing, but Ubuntu is an option. As far as hardware, you can easily swap in an SSD and it supports up to 16GB of PC3 10666 RAM.

My thoughts exactly, with my taxes Im going to upgrade to 4 gigs of ram and an SSD to increase battery life.
 
i must have this. great there goes a pretty decent chunk of my paycheck.
 
i was going to buy one last week, but apparently it can't run Windows, just ChromeOS and Linux.
 
i was going to buy one last week, but apparently it can't run Windows, just ChromeOS and Linux.

I think someone somewhere down the line will crack the bios or Acer or google will release it somewhere down the line.
 
I think someone somewhere down the line will crack the bios or Acer or google will release it somewhere down the line.
Hopefully. But really, the only reason previous Chromebooks (or just the Cr-48) were able to run Windows was because someone got theirs with an unlocked BIOS. I don't see that happening this time around.

And that SSD gave me (on Chrome OS) a boot time of about 7 seconds. It's really nice.
 
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