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brothergc
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Acer C7 cromebook

Sun Nov 18, 2012 10:55 am

I saw that this was just released
http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/de ... -acer.html
wondering if one could wipe crome os and install say linux mint ?
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Re: Acer C7 cromebook

Sun Nov 18, 2012 11:10 am

Yes, you can wipe Chrome OS and install Linux Mint. The only thing about C7 Chromebook is the below average battery life 3.5-4 hours.
It would take you 2,363 continuous hours or 98 days,11 hours, and 35 minutes of gameplay to complete your Steam library.
In this time you could travel to Venus one time.
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Re: Acer C7 cromebook

Sun Nov 18, 2012 11:15 am

biffzinker wrote:
Yes, you can wipe Chrome OS and install Linux Mint. The only thing about C7 Chromebook is the below average battery life 3.5-4 hours.

so would it be any different from say a run of the mill lappy ? ( installing mint that is ) I am thinking of doing this . I have a 60gb ssd doing nothing but colecting dust . so I pick up a usb dvdrw and plug that in with a copy of linux mint 32bit
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Re: Acer C7 cromebook

Sun Nov 18, 2012 11:26 am

Perhaps not reading this: http://chromeos-cr48.blogspot.com/2012/11/looking-for-acer-c7-chrubuntu-tester.html. Had a CR48 Goggle sent me forgot I had to flash the BIOS to boot Windows/Linux. You would be stuck booting Ubuntu and unable to replace the hard disk looks like.
It would take you 2,363 continuous hours or 98 days,11 hours, and 35 minutes of gameplay to complete your Steam library.
In this time you could travel to Venus one time.
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