Hello, What is the cheapper and better chromebook?
TommyBRSL said:
Hello, What is the cheapper and better chromebook?
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I bought a refurbished Acer C720 Chromebook for ~$200. A VERY good deal for 4GB of RAM and in Intel i3 processor, as well as 10 hours of battery life. For another ~$150 you can get a bigger SSD for it. Throw in crouton and you've got an AMAZING laptop for cheap. This little Acer has totally replaced my P.O.S. HP as my daily driver.
Ph0enix_216 said:
I bought a refurbished Acer C720 Chromebook for ~$200. A VERY good deal for 4GB of RAM and in Intel i3 processor, as well as 10 hours of battery life. For another ~$150 you can get a bigger SSD for it. Throw in crouton and you've got an AMAZING laptop for cheap. This little Acer has totally replaced my P.O.S. HP as my daily driver.
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Great minds think alike. I got a refurb Acer (c740 for me) for ~$200 as well.
i wish i could get deals like this in Germany :-/
My sister have a HP Chromebook 11
A Chromebook that's as cheap as it is excellent
CPU: 1.7GHz Samsung Exynos 5250 | Graphics: value | RAM: 2GB 1600MHz DDR3L SDRAM |Screen: 11.6-inch diagonal HD LED-backlit IPS display (1366 x 768) | Storage: 16GB eMMC | Optical drive: none | Connectivity: 2x2 802.11a/b/g/n WLAN and Bluetooth | Camera: 720p webcam |Weight: 2.3 pounds Dimensions: 0.69 in (H) x 11.69 in (W) x 7.56 in
The HP Chromebook 11 (starting at $279, £179, AU$399) is smooth and usable. While Chrome OS is limited by definition, between us growing more comfortable in web apps and those apps growing in power – and Chrome OS maturing – we're bumping into those limitations far less often.
This laptop is punchy enough to make the experience slick, cheap enough for anyone on a budget (or an impulse buy for the well-off), but something that still feels solid. It is a delight to own and use.
Apple and the other premium manufacturers should look at this little gem of a computer and applaud what has been achieved. The Chromebook 11 shows that it's possible to create a product with a little bit of the magic and joy you get from an Apple laptop without charging four figures for it.
My sis is happy. But for better performance she use online apps like on this websites rollapp.com/apps
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So I have a Kindle Fire pre-ordered, but I have been reading around and now I am not sure what to do because I am considering canceling my Fire and getting a touchpad off eBay.
Which one do people around here think is the better value, when one is planning on running custom android roms.
fieldju said:
So I have a Kindle Fire pre-ordered, but I have been reading around and now I am not sure what to do because I am considering canceling my Fire and getting a touchpad off eBay.
Which one do people around here think is the better value, when one is planning on running custom android roms.
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The Fire may not be very rom-friendly, but it's not even out yet for the developers to get ahold of. Cm7 is already well on its way for the Touchpad though. If that's your main criteria, I might suggest a Nook Color even. You can find them for $150 for a good refurb and it's well-supported by Cm7. They are similar hardware wise the Kindle Fire and the same form factor (7" screen).
buy me a fire and I'll let you know.
thanks
Well, just a quick at the specs here are a few that stand out:
TouchPad
Processor: Qualcomm dual-core 1.2GHz
Storage memory: 16GB or 32GB
RAM: 1 GB
Screen: 9.7 In.
OS: WebOS/Android 2.3 dual boot
Bluetooth: Yes
Front facing Camera: yes
Accelerometer: Yes
Compass (magnetometer): Yes
Gyroscope: Yes
Kindle Fire
Processor: TI OMAP dual core 1.0GHz
Storage memory: 8GB
RAM: 512 MB
Screen: 7 in.
OS: Android 2.3
Bluetooth: No
Front facing Camera: No
Accelerometer: No
Compass (magnetometer): No
Gyroscope: No
Not sure if one processor has a real advantage over the other but I would guess the TouchPad would probably be the better of the two.
Storage and RAM the TouchPad has the clear advantage.
Screen of course the TouchPad is bigger but it depends on what you prefer.
The Touchpad has an alpha version of Gingerbread 2.3 and of course WebOS witch I like much more than I expected. You could have two operating systems in essence.
The TouchPad was designed as a more Premium device with decent hardware (thus the greater storage and RAM) the Fire was designed as a budget device with cost saving in mind.
With all that in mind I go with the Touchpad if you can keep the price at around two $200 range (give or take a little).
That my 2 cents worth.
Tp is much better hardware
On the TP you also get bluetooth and a camera.
Don't know if Touchpad's GPU really better or worse than SGX540 of Nook, but 1gb of RAM really makes huge difference, 512mb is simply not enough, esp., for tablet.
However, Touchpad is big and heavy, and the pixel density is lower. And it doesn't have a proper build of Android (alpha 2 is alpha 2, more or less stable, but jerky) yet.
Unrealwolf said:
Don't know if Touchpad's GPU really better or worse than SGX540 of Nook, but 1gb of RAM really makes huge difference, 512mb is simply not enough, esp., for tablet.
However, Touchpad is big and heavy, and the pixel density is lower. And it doesn't have a proper build of Android (alpha 2 is alpha 2, more or less stable, but jerky) yet.
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With Ice Cream Sandwich on the way. It is almost a given, that it will ported by early next year if not sooner. This should be a huge reason to go to Craigs List and buy that TouchPad!
Buy the touchpad especially if you get a 32gb version at good price. Android, even though alpha version, is working great. Should be a stable version out soon. ICS is also coming. The touchpad is a high end tablet!
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On the TP you also get bluetooth and a camera.
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Good catch, I'll add that to my list along with:
Accelerometer
Compass (magnetometer)
Gyroscope
Not to mention that the Fire might be locked down.
I am in the market for an android tablet but seeing as times are hard I can only really stretch to one of the following two models...
Sumvision Cyclone Voyager 7"
B&N Nook HD
Please can someone list the pro's and con's for each device bearing in mind that I enjoy tinkering with custom ROMs and the such but ultimately would like to end up with a tablet that works well for general day to day browsing, YouTube and a little gaming.
Thanks in advance!
PS. If this is posted in the wrong location then I am very sorry, and hopefully one of the mods can move it for me!
Check out the specs on Hisense Sero 7. It compares well with the original Nexus7 and cost around $130 at Walmart.
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I suggest you to buy tablets with screen bigger then 8", I think 7" is to small, is more like a big phone not a tablet.
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I suggest you buy PIPO M8Pro.
I would like you to wait for few more months..........it is because, in a few months, the market will be flooded with highly powerful, low cost MediaTek Quad-Core MT8135 - specially designed for tablets. This is set to change the market. Even the upcoming kindle will use it.
Best buy = 7+ inch HD display, MT8135 Quad core processor, 2GB RAM @ around 120-150$ !
MediaTek, with its new MT8135, among the first SoC designers to have adopted the ground-breaking big.LITTLE processing technology which is designed to address the energy and thermal issues associated with multicore system-on-chip (SoC) solutions. ARM big.LITTLE technology enables the creation of dual-cluster SoCs, with one high-performance (big) cluster for processing intensive tasks and a highly energy-efficient (LITTLE) cluster for executing routine functions.
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thedroidone said:
I suggest you to buy tablets with screen bigger then 8", I think 7" is to small, is more like a big phone not a tablet.
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theandroid1
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but if screen size is bigger than 8", it is inconvenient to carry.
hi I am Ornob. Planning to learn android apps development. So I want to buy a notebook. but I am so confused which brand and which configuration should I buy. I like macbook pro retina display but 13 inch macbook pro core i7 is "dual core". here is the link https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs-retina/ on the hand macbook pro retina display 15 inch is core i7 quad core but it's too big for me to carry a 15 inch laptop all the time. Maximum developer suggest mac and I have a plane to go ios after android. So mac is the best choice for me. But is core i7 dual core will be wise decision for long term? I have no plan to change to the laptop before two years.
there are some quad core core i7 13 inch notebook available in different brand. like toshiba, hp, lenovo, dell
and some core i7 processor is "HQ" some are "MQ" and also some are "U". specially core i7 U for Ultrabook. all brands have their individual ultrabook which are looks gorgeous and maximum ultra-book give longer battery life which is impressive! But.... core i7 "U" processor not powerful as like core i7 HQ or MQ processor!! Am I wrong?
Price does not matter. I have no budget limitation just want to buy the best 13.3 inch notebook to learn android development. I always will carry my notebook, so it should be 13 to 14 inch.
does anybody help me to chose the best and most powerful notebook for android apps development.
please help me, my class will start after 20 days so I need to buy my notebook within 20 days!
please!!!
hi I am Ornob. Planning to learn android apps development. So I want to buy a notebook. but I am so confused which brand and which configuration should I buy. I like macbook pro retina display but 13 inch macbook pro core i7 is "dual core". here is the link https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs-retina/ on the hand macbook pro retina display 15 inch is core i7 quad core but it's too big for me to carry a 15 inch laptop all the time. Maximum developer suggest mac and I have a plane to go ios after android. So mac is the best choice for me. But is core i7 dual core will be wise decision for long term? I have no plan to change to the laptop before two years.
there are some quad core core i7 13 inch notebook available in different brand. like toshiba, hp, lenovo, dell
and some core i7 processor is "HQ" some are "MQ" and also some are "U". specially core i7 U for Ultrabook. all brands have their individual ultrabook which are looks gorgeous and maximum ultra-book give longer battery life which is impressive! But.... core i7 "U" processor not powerful as like core i7 HQ or MQ processor!! Am I wrong?
Price does not matter. I have no budget limitation just want to buy the best 13.3 inch notebook to learn android development. I always will carry my notebook, so it should be 13 to 14 inch.
does anybody help me to chose the best and most powerful notebook for android apps development.
please help me, my class will start after 20 days so I need to buy my notebook within 20 days!
please!!!
HEHEHEHE. I know Jide sells tablets too. So the question is why did they do this? Its almost asif back firing on their face again. Why would anyone want to purchase Jide products when they have a device better than it, their own pc's!!!???
Then again android x86 was a strong successful competitor and so Jide bought them out. so now theres no competition developments likely to go only one way and all according to Jide. is there a secret evil alterior motive for Jide doing all this? Or is it just part of a better nicer package?
Why is the Remix OS installer soo complicated and broken? Why is it that theres only intel cpu and gpu support and none other? why are features from older versions being removed in the new versions? why wont Jide support sim card function in Remix OS? Its only obvious if Jide wants to carry on selling its own products then they must give the pc public an inferior version or shall we call it one riddled and laced with problems or atleast an incomplete or feature disabled version? Is all this Jide marketting tactics? Yes, Remix OS is awesome and can be improved many ways to actually replace or compete with windows as a replacement PC, especially when it looks, feels and operates like windows. Why has Jide limited the internal storage space to 4GB only? Again is this basically the bit where
jide keep the pc version inferior while their own tablet version sells at different storage sizes e.g 16GB, 32GB, 64GB etc etc? LOL Im actually a little confused, baffled i must say.
I have the ativ pc pro xe700t1c the uk version with intel core i5 quad core and its also a convertible tablet with msata ssd as hdd drive and as you all probbaly know android was created for fast flash memory and linux format os so the best combination is an ssd and ext4 linux file format. I have a 64gb 544 mb/s msata drive in a usb 3.0 enclosure which i use to boot remix os and run it off it. Its perfectly smooth and fast enough 5 secs to boot and the ativ pc pro convertible laptop/tablet is fully compatible hadware software wise, no problems at all. The 5 year old Ativ pc pro gets 120,000+ score in antutu benchmark same as the latest LG G5 with the latest adreno 530 gpu/snapdragon 820 cpu which costs approx £600 now in retail!!! I bought the Ativ pc pro convertible laptop/tablet for only £200 two weeks ago with accessories (ethernet dock etc) worth alone £100 on its own off ebay!!! On top of all that its also a windows 10 pro convertible laptop/tablet system which on its own without android was initially worth £1200 five years ago and still costing approx £500 even now in retail. So what im trying to say here is that for only £200 i get a £600 android 6.0 laptop/tablet and i also get a £500 windows 10 pro laptop tablet ALL IN ONE.
clearly the masses want such a great benefit as above, clearly i feel Remix OS was not supposed to be this successful on the PC unless offcourse Jide really does have a BIG HEART and its about bringing something good to the masses!
Clearly such a revolution will make £1000 's android only devices such as Pixel C and others like it almost useless and paper weight as the raw power of a cheap PC's components is far greater than its expensive new components of its android counterpart! cost wise its cheaper than its android counterpart too!
The question is will Jide continue to be generous to the people or will Jide bring in measurements to protect its investments? Hmmmmm..
And what about Google??? How will Google react to this and what will it do after, wether prevent or allow such revolution. Surely Googles taking the biggest hit here! lol
I can whole heartedly tell you this that if Jide Include sim card support in Remix OS then i will be more than willing to purchase it for a sensible price, its worth it. Also this is a piece of successful software which will have millions of audience worldwide so there will always be supporters for it. My two cents.