$250 Chromebook With Ubuntu Linux Is Very Fast

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The Google Samsung Chromebook was already interesting for its competitive $250 price-tag (http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/10/21/2344235/at-250-new-chromebook-means-competition-for-tablets-netbooks-ultrabooks) and that it can be loaded with Linux distributions (http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/10/25/1941225/developer-gets-opensuse-running-on-249-google-chromebook) beyond Chrome OS, but it turns out that its performance is particularly good (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=samsung_chrome_a15&num=1), too. When loaded with Ubuntu Linux, the Samsung Exynos 5 Dual ARM SoC on the Chrome notebook had outperformed a 1.8GHz Intel Atom, a quad-core Calxeda ARM server, and a TI OMAP4 PandaBoard.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/11/20/1617210/250-chromebook-with-ubuntu-linux-is-very-fast