should i get the new asus chromebox?

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Kneedragger

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I'm interested in grabbing one but only if I can run Linux on it. I'd like to run XBMC on it actually.
 
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chromebox + external HD's = greatest HTPC ever based on QPR?
 
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Roland00Address

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Asking as a person who doesn't have much experience with linux, but wouldn't 16gb storage be kinda limiting with fully featured versions of linux (not embedded)? Wouldn't you vastly prefer 32gb?
 
OBLAMA2009

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Roland00Address said:
Asking as a person who doesn't have much experience with linux, but wouldn't 16gb storage be kinda limiting with fully featured versions of linux (not embedded)? Wouldn't you vastly prefer 32gb?
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if you look at the article knee posted it looks like its really easy to replace things like memory and the ssd (anyone know how much a 63 gb ssd like that would be?). also i think it has an sd slot. you can run ubuntu on 16 gb, but probably not well with 2 gb memory. as that article mentions, it wouldnt be straightforward to install windows though
 
Sunburn74

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I'm only interested in this box if it can stream free hulu. I'd buy it as a pure streaming HTPC
 
openwheel

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Does chrome book have a proper HTPC front end? How about live OTA recoding support?
 
OBLAMA2009

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how good is the 1.4 ghz celeron cpu in this? is it horrendous? how would it compare, to say, a 3 ghz core 2 desktop?
 
CuriousMike

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OBLAMA2009 said:
how good is the 1.4 ghz celeron cpu in this? is it horrendous? how would it compare, to say, a 3 ghz core 2 desktop?
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It's the same as in the Acer C720 Chromebook I'm running now.
I play various 720/1080p files downloaded from 'net fine.
I run HD Netflix fine.

If you scour some reviews on the Haswell based Chromebooks, you'll find universal praise for the CPU.
 
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OBLAMA2009 said:
how good is the 1.4 ghz celeron cpu in this? is it horrendous? how would it compare, to say, a 3 ghz core 2 desktop?
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e8400 (the high end core 2 duo with the most cache and 3.0 ghz) scores about 1.75 in cinebench r11.5 multi vs 1.14 for the celeron 2955u. Haswell is a lot faster for the same ghz as core 2 duo, but we are talking double the clock speed for the comparison. Things that prefer faster memory access should be better on the celeron though.
 
OBLAMA2009

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i didnt realize it but anand reviewed this and he says the i3 one is 369? thats sort of a ripoff. and all the review units were "accidentally" stuffed with 4gb to hide janked 2gb performance.
 
podspi

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OBLAMA2009 said:
how good is the 1.4 ghz celeron cpu in this? is it horrendous? how would it compare, to say, a 3 ghz core 2 desktop?
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I have the C720 (with same Celeron processor) and it lands somewhere between a 2ghz~2.2ghz Core 2 (at least in web browsing benches).


The 2gb of RAM is not really an issue, since:

1) ChromeOS is pretty light on resource use
2) It uses an SSD


I'm on the C720 right now, and it is reporting 227mb free. That's with 3 tabs open (one of which I'd call reasonably resource-intensive), plus crouton running in the background (xfce) + apps running in there (Skype, Chromium, etc). I mean, 4gb is clearly better than 2gb, but I wouldn't consider it a dealbreaker.
 
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