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Like the $249 Haswell-based new Chromebook from Acer? The only problem there is the paltry 16GB SSD.

I'd buy something similar: a convertable made from SONY that can run GNU / Linux / *BSD, except with much more RAM and SSD. For: $199- since we get taxed heavily for shipping here. I'll need to upgrade my Dell Inspiron 1121 soon.

I'd buy that if I could put Ubuntu on it. Haven't seen that as of yet.

Very doable: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acer_C7_Chromebook

What's even more intriguing is that you can now flush the firmware on the 2012 model and it becomes just a regular PC that you can install windows/osx/linux in the regular way with no faffing about. Hopefully the same will be done for these new models.

Arch on an HP Chromebook 14" sounds for $299 sounds awesome to me.

http://johnlewis.ie/pre-built-coreboot-firmware-for-chromebo...

Is there a performance problem with losing proprietary GPU drivers?

Keeping them seems one benefit to dual OS (reusing the Chrome kernel). It's nice to be able to watch HD video without hiccups.

That does start to sound attractive. I'd rather not have to hack anything just to install an OS, though. It'll probably be bad enough learning UEFI.

It has a USB 3.0 port, and 70MB/s cards/sticks are around.

Not sure if that's fast enough, but at least it's better than the typical 20MB/s for USB 2.0.

And the soldered-in-non-upgradable 4G of RAM.

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