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« on: November 03, 2013, 02:22:14 PM »

Want to get something as cheap and light as possible for text editing. Thinking either HP Chromebook 11 or 2nd hand lenovo x200 + new battery. Don't want to go bigger than 12 inch screen or much higher than £200 on the budget.

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« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2013, 02:40:47 PM »

The reviews for the HP Chromebook look good

Haven't you got a tablet? How about one of those keyboards you can attach to a tablet?
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« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2013, 02:45:13 PM »

I don't have a tablet no.
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« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2013, 03:24:18 PM »

Won't the chromebook will only work with google docs? I presume you are only writing fiction and poetry but still I would not be happy with that. I dunno how well Chrome OS copes with offline considering they have very little storage space.
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« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2013, 03:43:57 PM »

There's a couple full screen text editors in the chrome app store that look good enough.

I keep all writing in the cloud anyway (dropbox, but the chrome apps work with that too) because backups etc but either way I don't think I'm going to overfill the harddrive with words.
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« Reply #5 on: November 03, 2013, 04:08:32 PM »

Im pretty statisfied with my Lenovo S205. Have been using it for a year now, no problems ever.

Would fit your writing needs definitely and it can also play HD streams pretty fine and little games like FTL, Gunpoint etc
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« Reply #6 on: November 03, 2013, 07:07:10 PM »

I would go with the lenovo too I think. Just on the basis that its a real computer if you need it to be. But not good enough for more than a handful of distractions and you can just not install any distractions.
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« Reply #7 on: November 03, 2013, 07:16:08 PM »

I would go with the lenovo too I think. Just on the basis that its a real computer if you need it to be. But not good enough for more than a handful of distractions and you can just not install any distractions.

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« Reply #8 on: November 03, 2013, 09:23:57 PM »

I have that feeling in the back of my head but my main thing is that a second hand laptop keyboard doesn't feel like a very fun thing to deal with. Then again might be fine.

That said I also just read you can install emacs on ChromeOs without too much trouble, it's apparently gentoo under the hood so if you can compile it you can run it.

Any thoughts on which would be more powerful?
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« Reply #9 on: January 17, 2014, 11:38:47 PM »

Bought an x201 in the end. Installed elementary OS on it and it seems cool. Might buy a 32 gig ssd at some point in the future but probably not.
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« Reply #10 on: January 17, 2014, 11:49:21 PM »

Bought an x201 in the end. Installed elementary OS on it and it seems cool. Might buy a 32 gig ssd at some point in the future but probably not.
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« Reply #11 on: January 18, 2014, 06:02:56 PM »

Sickest laptop ever tbh.

Anything else is just for babies.
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