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Acer C720 Chromebook Delivers Fast Ubuntu Performance
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Originally posted by carewolf View PostIf it something that like happens with Macbook Pros, that means the Macbook Pro numbers are not off, but in fact more realistic than the number sof a complete new and unused MbP (and that Macbook Pros are just kind of crap).
(Though it is true that if you have an average power draw higher than what the charger can deliver you will also see throttling presumably if the battery is still working, but I'm not sure how this would work exactly and I suspect it can only really happen with combined cpu+gpu load over a long time (2+ hours).
I won't disagree though this is kind of crappy behavior, the sole reason for this is to keep the charger a small little box - similar specced pc notebooks come with power adapters twice the output capability (if not more) and they are obviously larger (and more heavy).Last edited by mczak; 31 December 2013, 02:20 PM.
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This chromebook seems very interesting to me, but I can't seem to find any information at all about the GPU.
I know it's a Intel HD Graphics Honeywell IGP, but since there are quite a lot with different results, it is hard to see how it actually performs.
Normally I would check on videocardbenchmarks.net but its not on there.
Is there a other Videocard you can compare the results with so I can get a idea on the performance?
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Why not give crouton a thought?
I got my C720 in the mail at the beginning of the week. I had the back off and installed the MyDigitalSSD 64GB first thing. After trying a couple of distros, I gave crouton a try. Since it uses the underlying system as a base, I didn't have any of the issues I was having to work around on others (namely trackpad compatibility, cpupower/fan issues). I used Debian/Sid as my target, and then installed fluxbox from within the chroot as I am mostly interested in the command line tools available from a full distro.
I ran this against the benchmarks from Michael's article and uploaded them to here. I haven't been successful in getting the HPC challenge to run, but I feel pretty good about the results nonetheless.
What I found interesting is that the speeds between the two are mostly on track. The better graphics scores are due to the improvements in Mesa. Even with that, I was expecting less due to running off a chroot in VT2 and being limited to the kernel 3.8.11 that ships with Chrome OS.
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