<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Running the default chromeos it sat unplugged for an entire 8 hour day with me putzing around with it nearly non-stop. Still have a around 50% power life left when I plugged it up at home.<br><br></div>You can plug in a USB3 device for extra storage. It comes with an extra free (for 2 years) 100GB on google drive.<br><br></div>If I can get Linux running natively, there will be a how-to talk at ALE.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Ted W. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ted-lists@xy0.org" target="_blank">ted-lists@xy0.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 11/07/2014 02:12 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
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ah ha! crouton has been updated in the last 48 hours!<br>
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On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Ted W. <<a href="mailto:ted-lists@xy0.org" target="_blank">ted-lists@xy0.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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No Crouton? <a href="https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton" target="_blank">https://github.com/dnschneid/<u></u>crouton</a><br>
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Some discussion floating around the github "issues" say it works fine<br>
assuming you got the CB5 model (which it sounds like it is from your<br>
description).<br>
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Please let us know how it goes. If the battery life is reasonable and storage isn't a problem (with some sane form of external storage I assume) I might look at picking one of these up to replace this old X61 I've been using. Though I love the thing to death, 1024x768 just isn't cutting it for web surfing any more.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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