If we check the CPU specs: http://ark.intel.com/products/81071/Intel-Celeron-Processor-N2830-1M-Cache-up-to-2_41-GHz
...we see that surpprisingly, it HAS the Intel "VTx" hardware virtualization extension. That means getting a virtual machine running on it for at least basic stuff will work at reasonable speeds. If we got to the CPUBench site we see it has a "performance score" of just under 1,000 which...is...bad-ish but not terrible like some of the Atom crap. http://www.cpubenchmark.net/midlow_range_cpus.html Upshot: you could do real work with that puppy, with a modern Linux distro and even light virtualization (running a copy of WinXP or another distro as a VM on it). Jim On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 10:02 AM, <techli...@phpcoderusa.com> wrote: > > Better than a Chromebook? > > http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-15-3531-laptop/pd?oc= > fndoc3001b&model_id=inspiron-15-3531-laptop > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >
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