Review of HP's Chromebook 14
Introduction:
The aim of my review
Purpose of my purchase
Use till now
Input Devices
Linux compatability
How-to's
Extensibility
Conclusion and remarks
Useful links
The aim of my review
As with everything in life you can never do anything you want to do. So with this review. I bought this laptop with a specific purpose in mind, as you will read, so I want to run Linux and ChromeOS is quite funny, but I do not care so much further. This review is largely concerned with the question whether you can do production work on this machine and how much effort it takes to get it working and at what kind of things you will run. I also answered immediately a little how this machine is suitable for multimedia. For deep specs and benchmarks, I refer you to the official review of Tweakers. It makes little sense for me to measure things again, but if you like to have an additional test, I'm quite willing to run. In that case you can DM'en me with your request. purpose of my purchase I've been three years and around a bit with a gaming laptop, because I had at the time the desire to capture everything with one device off: gaming, programming, word processing, etc. Since I do however have a solid game pc installed the summer in my room, this is no longer a requirement. What I need is especially mobility: a longer battery life with a nice keyboard I basically all my typing (Informatics & BI training) along with some entertainment (Netflix, light games) can carry on. By this I actually came basically always a ultrabook, because I did not prefer to have about 2.6-pound colossus. The price of such a device is directly toward the 1000 - and since I've counted down the summer before my game devices, about the same amount I was not there to jump - although the Sony Vaio Pro / Multi-Flip there it looked tempting. When I was so on the net - and then literally introduced that day - HP chromebook 14 came, was very excited. Just add briefly the pros: * Haswell processor (dual-core 1.4 Ghz proc) * 16GB SSD * 14 "with only 1.8k weight * Advertised with 8h battery life * 2 GB RAM * And for the spectacular price of 329, - . * 4 gb that you will encounter in online reviews regularly is a separate model that also has a 3G module on board. This model in the U.S. sponsored by T-Mobile. Which gives you because free 500mb per month and the model takes only $ 50 more. This model is released in the Netherlands (yet) but the lack of 3G and less RAM after so identical. use up to now I have the laptop now around Horticultural month possession. During the first few weeks I have been busy with determining what area I wanted to use. because I do not mind to fuck, but I want to have as stable an environment as possible for when I perform production work, and it is not 1, 2, 3 possible. In total I have a nice list tried before I came across a system that worked, namely Linux Mint 16 with MATE. In order of testing: * chrubuntu (dual-boot Ubuntu and ChromeOS) * chrubuntu (dual boot ChromeOS with Xubuntu) * Ubuntu Unity (I know, ugh) 7 * Debian * Fedora (failure) * Elementary OS * Linux Mint 16 with MATE The results of my trials and further and remarks I'll talk later. since once I have chosen, my area is intensively used the laptop for my education. Of course this is not really useful information for you, so here is my current user scenarios: Workplace 1: * LibreOffice Writer * Firefox 7 tabs "google" results * NetBeans (development) * Visual Paradigm (UML drawing tool) work 2: * Firefox 8 tabs Tweakers, XDA etc. + have one tab where I stream music via 22tracks. Core 1: 22-30% load Core 2: 14-20% charged Memory 1.3 / 1.8 * charge (come down on the back *) This set-up is actually the minimum of what I stand. normally open Netflix is usually somewhere ready and / or I have 20 + tabs on both workstations. (Yes, I'm a hoarder.) I have been several times (5-10x) examined the performance while I'm so intensively and these results are representative. In the extreme situation that I outlined the ram usually still runs up to 1.6, but that does not go out as much. The important thing is that the beast so far no hitches exhibits under pressure which I command him. The only exception is when I take everything that stands above threw open simultaneously for this test. When I had a grand total of ~ 5 seconds, he just is not as tasty responded. So just fine. During use, the way I have described above, consistent between four and five hours of battery life. Multimedia For the purposes I have named, it is important to identify that there is NO full keyboard sits on the beast. The restrictions listed below, a picture is attached: * You have ten keys that you can get as F1 to F10 in Linux. You have an ESC and Quit button. * No caps lock, it is replaced by a search button that starts will open., in most distros No delete button. Perhaps the greatest shortcoming that there is. * No windows or function button. Absence of the delete button is the biggest loss in my opinion, and I still have not found a workable solution to remap this: in the settings of my distro you can not appoint a key as anything else so that the operating system does this deviant behavior. I need me delve into 3rd party tools that might be able to, but you can at least in most office software to indicate that you want to assign to a key alternative behavior. Photo: https://www.sugarsync.com/pf/ D8485810_698_205515847 mouse devices work out-of-the-box like you are a Linux user may be accustomed. been Keep in mind that, as usual, there is no support for more than two buttons. On the keyboard itself, I can say it's delicious tap. I got this review about 3k words tapped on the machine itself and find it a relief: there is little travel but clearly, as you can see many ultrabooks with their keyboards. There is about a half inch between the keys, so you rarely mistaken in your attacks and it is a standard QWERTY layout. In addition, sitting on the F and J key a striation, so you immediately have or you be forefingers in the right place. Linux compatability As I said, I have tested several areas, namely: * chrubuntu (dual-boot ChromeOS and Ubuntu) * chrubuntu ( dual-boot ChromeOS with Xubuntu) * Ubuntu Unity (I know, ugh) * Debian 7 * Fedora (failure) * Elementary OS * Linux Mint 16 with MATE Before I discuss specific issues that apply to certain distros, I want first discuss what the options are and where you're to look for. 1. You touchpad will not work yet. Drivers are available and there is info on how to get it working, but ultimately this is mostly aimed at the cheaper Acer chromebook come true simultaneously. I have followed the discussion up to a week for writing, and the most expedient solution till now was to build your own kernel. In the near future, I expect that manage chrubuntu get it working, but for now you should always have a mouse in Linux. 2. Suspend / Hibernate and Shutdown work tedious if you dual-boot, single boot or chroot, no matter what distro you're running. You must take into account that the animal freezes and you have to reboot hard or you wifi adapter / sound is frozen and will not work until you reboot. If you use it, I have not tested it a hundred times on each option, but a few times and can say that Ubuntu and Debian were the least stable. Oh yeah, wireless mice are sometimes caught after a résumé. Then you have your receiver is just lash out and insert it again. This problem does not have to wired versions. 3. Booting into Linux course is amazing fast, especially in combination with an SSD. I myself after chrome screen (moment) often only 5 to 10 seconds before my mint fully loaded and ready to be used. However, Ubuntu and Debian gave many error messages on startup, and I mean a lot of 5 +. This reverses every time you boot back, so I ended up error reporting itself off when I turned these distros. This may in the long run to make sure that you are not aware of critical errors. Furthermore, Debian did on startup considerably longer: somewhere between 20 and 30 seconds. 4: USB sticks. I have a load of USB sticks in all sizes. From 256mb to 16 gig. I have approximately half of my usb sticks (which are all formatted with FAT32 and the same tool), that auto mount is not working. I have never worked for this laptop for production to this laptop with Linux so if this is a problem inherent in Linux is whether this laptop, I do not know. You will at least the manual mount command to learn or bookmark. Now, on to specific issues: Chrubuntu with Ubuntu is the most stable option of chrubuntu script. Everything works out-of-the-box and is obviously the most supported distro. There is little else to say about it. Chrubuntu with Xubuntu uses KDE as a desktop environment for all Unity haters among us. Here the same applies as for Ubuntu, except that the sound does not work directly from the taskbar. You need the sound system to boot into your start menu and then adjust the sound in the application. Ubuntu without dual-boot I first caught to see if there was missing when ChromeOS support was removed. It's not better or worse than when you dual-boot, except that you should gain that nice error messages. Debian does not taste good. During the install script often ran against all exceptions and did he do noticeably difficult. During boot this translated into boot much longer than other distros, and as I said, I got error messages after startup. I will not be long gerotzooit with some further work and have gone on to Elementary. Elementary is slightly less stable than Ubuntu, but it was close. This makes sense because Elementary was built on Ubuntu. Within Elementary I got the occasional error, but what I did notice is that it crashed more often than all other distros, especially opening / navigating the Start menu often caused lagg. With a live USB Fedora I only got kernel panic messages when I tried to install, so I can continue to say anything sensible about it. Maybe someone else can get it up and running. Linux Mint 16 MATE with Petra has been my latest experiment, and in my opinion the most successful: everything works again out-of-the-box, and I have no time to date had to lockups during use. What I have seen is that the WiFi adapter occasionally turns itself off, then you have to reboot to get back to get it working. For the rest I have tested almost everything here: second monitor via HDMI, mouse (wired / unwired), charging via USB, VirtualBox, etc. No problems. In the next chapter I discuss things you need to consider, you want to take the step. How-to , you must decide for yourself what you want to do with your device. You can chroot namely, dual-booting and ChromeOS replaced. Chrooting is running Linux on top of your ChromeOS, so you do not need to reboot and just environment can change, at the expense of performance directly. Dual boot is an option if for example you want to use when you're productive, and entertainment for Linux (Netflix, little browsing) have enough on ChromeOS. This is an immediate attention: there is an application that runs on Wine Silverlight so you can watch Netflix on Linux, but it works far from perfect. So if you are an avid Netflix'er on your laptop, then it's best to leave it ChromeOS. This device is in fact well supported by Netflix. The last option, replace ChromeOS is the option where you are most likely to come to if you really want to use for production work your laptop. You have, after all, only a 16GB disk and loosely ChromeOS + Ubuntu keep you around but 8gb over, compared to ~ 11GB with just a linux distro. Now that you've figured out what you want, the following warning applies: PHYSICAL SECURITY OF YOUR DEVICE IS a joke. The first step will be with all the options namely that you have to put your laptop. in developer mode This means that you live USBs may rotate and so you ultimately can come. Using another OS in the files of another OS You can not prevent a BIOS password, that option is not there because (as far as I can discover.) This ChromeOS will no longer control what OS you start, thus giving the ability to start Linux and / or other live USBs. This screen makes it wonderfully easy to experiment with distros, for how much your distro also brickt: This screen will pop up at all times as the first, even when you're off ChromeOS gemieterd. You can from this screen always reset your device to the starting point with just ChromeOS. Along with a USB ChromeOS (making via the Google website) That is the plus point of the display, the disadvantage is great or not so great, depending on how many jokers there be around your workplace. In the screen that tells your OS authentication is off and if you want to enable this, you will need to press certain buttons. If you do this, you will not be deleted but inaccessible linux distro made: you can not boot from it, so you have to turn off all costs again a few minutes again. As everyone in this screen may come when they reboot your PC at all times, it will hopefully be slowly clear why I say that physical security about nothing. Anyway, back to the how-to logic. If you want to chroot, you can directly to the useful links. I have not tried it and I also have nothing useful to say about it. For dual-boot is your best option. Chrubuntu the script (again see useful links) Through a roadmap to follow fairly simple and is almost fully automatic Linux installed for you without having to stabbing. Paw You have a choice of standard Ubuntu, Xubuntu and Lubuntu. If you want to dual-boot another distro that but you have to be a live-usb * have it. Coming up here on a tip. In addition, it is advisable to already make ChromeOS a recovery USB and have a release ready. It is in fact occurred to me that I entered the wrong with turning the script, then you must discard so the whole and over again to begin. Of course the same applies if you want to replace ChromeOS: have a recovery stick ready and make a live usb of your desired distro using the normal procedure you used. By making that live USB is a problem: it often does NOT work out-of-the-box with your tool. If you are going to boot from your USB, then it indicates that there is an error: You do not have enough memory or something like that. I have a dozen different tools used, and different PCs, so it really is the chrome book: live usbs just have trouble recognizing the geheugen.Je must command your live usb to install things change and add a line, see useful links. Please note that you are not the full 2GB trying to pinpoint, but only one gb namely my chromebook did not recognize my memory as 2GB, 1.8GB, but as you saw in my previous usage situation. It does not matter: 1gb is more than enough for the installation and when it is installed, you simply use distro you all RAM memory. Extensibility In the review I have already mentioned a number of limitations of the device, you only have 16 GB SSD and you can of course work with 2 GB, which for more intensive programs such as games probably will not be enough. I am here for the people who want to do some good and bad news with it: RAM is soldered to the motherboard and is not expandable according to initial reports. The only thing to consider is, is a 4GB edition in the States ordering. This will have no effect, except that you need for a mains adapter and the extra 3G module probably will not work: here I'm not into it. SSD to replace, but this is not an easy job. There is a walk-through now be found, which is also included in the useful links online. Here is to see that you have to disassemble because the SSD should be connected. Underneath the motherboard almost the entire laptop So you have the keyboard, fan, motherboard and the SSD itself disassemble and reassemble. In addition, the SSD of an alternative type: it has a ngFF form factor. This means that it works instead of using a SATA PCI-e connector. This allows for higher speeds is possible, but with normal use, as well as not noticeable. The only advantage which probably chosen for this form factor saves space. In addition, for those interested, there is a bump there is at least according to Pricewatch no SSD of this type available. Intel has an announced, but which is not yet delivered. EDIT: There are now a few SSDs surfaced in Pricewatch. Attached link. mistake NO MODEL: there is to be found on the original HP chromebook 14, the pavillion much information. Here, the memory could be replaced. You usually know whether it is the old version, by looking at the photos: the old model is mostly black. The new white / turquoise / salmon. Conclusion This device is up to no Linux convert to a Linux environment, then you have little to do to get the suspend / hibernate / quit and touchpad all turning up nothing knowledge with little following. If you do some word processing, and many are on the Internet, this is simply a wonderful device that has a battery life that you are using a Windows laptop for the dual need to spend. Soon It is true that with light use almost no gain in battery life: I expected that pretty much just browsing and a lot of reading should be the ~ 5am I get the battery life, at least closer to 8am. For me, the few hooks that are attached to this laptop ridiculously small for the huge price difference that you have to pay for equivalent features. That's why I give 4 stars. I would give 4.5, but that can not and although this animal is almost perfect for the price, it is not perfect and therefore not worthy of 5 stars. It stands or falls, however, on whether you will have enough to 16GB of memory (with all external solutions aside), because even for many tweaker will probably be a step too far for the SSD upgrading. The other problems can be solved with a simple reboot and only occur if you have a lot suspend / hibernate, and is not a problem that will stand in the way of your production work and will wait for 10 seconds while your system reboot is not really the difference make or miss deadlines or not gets Useful Links * Chrubuntu script and instructions: http://chromeos-cr48.blog...chromebooks-now-with.html * Chrooton (vs. Chrubuntu) and instructions: http:/ / www.howtogeek.com/...-chromebook-with-crouton/ * Other experiences with Linux editions: http://lionfacelemonface....ok-14-lubuntu-first-pass/ * Starting point for touchpad get it working: https://groups.google.com...ebook-central/95j_wAtx6Vs * replace the SSD: https://groups.google.com...ebook-central/tH5WIg3Y9aI * Live USB problems: https://bbs. archlinux.org / index.php id = 145345? * Available SSDs in Pricewatch: http://tweakers.net/categ...BdFlijpJVtJKZuaG5UmxtbS0A PS: after aflloop this lecture block I'm probably going to work with the touchpad and a few alternative distributions. If you are interested in the results and want a call when they are online, please let me know! However, Ubuntu and Debian gave many error messages on startup, and I mean a lot of 5 +. This reverses every time you boot back, so I ended up error reporting itself off when I turned these distros. This may in the long run to make sure that you are not aware of critical errors. Furthermore, Debian did on startup considerably longer: somewhere between 20 and 30 seconds. 4: USB sticks. I have a load of USB sticks in all sizes. From 256mb to 16 gig. I have approximately half of my usb sticks (which are all formatted with FAT32 and the same tool), that auto mount is not working. I have never worked for this laptop for production to this laptop with Linux so if this is a problem inherent in Linux is whether this laptop, I do not know. You will at least the manual mount command to learn or bookmark. Now, on to specific issues: Chrubuntu with Ubuntu is the most stable option of chrubuntu script. Everything works out-of-the-box and is obviously the most supported distro. There is little else to say about it. Chrubuntu with Xubuntu uses KDE as a desktop environment for all Unity haters among us. Here the same applies as for Ubuntu, except that the sound does not work directly from the taskbar. You need the sound system to boot into your start menu and then adjust the sound in the application. Ubuntu without dual-boot I first caught to see if there was missing when ChromeOS support was removed. It's not better or worse than when you dual-boot, except that you should gain that nice error messages. Debian does not taste good. During the install script often ran against all exceptions and did he do noticeably difficult. During boot this translated into boot much longer than other distros, and as I said, I got error messages after startup. I will not be long gerotzooit with some further work and have gone on to Elementary. Elementary is slightly less stable than Ubuntu, but it was close. This makes sense because Elementary was built on Ubuntu. Within Elementary I got the occasional error, but what I did notice is that it crashed more often than all other distros, especially opening / navigating the Start menu often caused lagg. With a live USB Fedora I only got kernel panic messages when I tried to install, so I can continue to say anything sensible about it. Maybe someone else can get it up and running. Linux Mint 16 MATE with Petra has been my latest experiment, and in my opinion the most successful: everything works again out-of-the-box, and I have no time to date had to lockups during use. What I have seen is that the WiFi adapter occasionally turns itself off, then you have to reboot to get back to get it working. For the rest I have tested almost everything here: second monitor via HDMI, mouse (wired / unwired), charging via USB, VirtualBox, etc. No problems. In the next chapter I discuss things you need to consider, you want to take the step. How-to , you must decide for yourself what you want to do with your device. You can chroot namely, dual-booting and ChromeOS replaced. Chrooting is running Linux on top of your ChromeOS, so you do not need to reboot and just environment can change, at the expense of performance directly. Dual boot is an option if for example you want to use when you're productive, and entertainment for Linux (Netflix, little browsing) have enough on ChromeOS. This is an immediate attention: there is an application that runs on Wine Silverlight so you can watch Netflix on Linux, but it works far from perfect. So if you are an avid Netflix'er on your laptop, then it's best to leave it ChromeOS. This device is in fact well supported by Netflix. The last option, replace ChromeOS is the option where you are most likely to come to if you really want to use for production work your laptop. You have, after all, only a 16GB disk and loosely ChromeOS + Ubuntu keep you around but 8gb over, compared to ~ 11GB with just a linux distro. Now that you've figured out what you want, the following warning applies: PHYSICAL SECURITY OF YOUR DEVICE IS a joke. The first step will be with all the options namely that you have to put your laptop. in developer mode This means that you live USBs may rotate and so you ultimately can come. Using another OS in the files of another OS You can not prevent a BIOS password, that option is not there because (as far as I can discover.) This ChromeOS will no longer control what OS you start, thus giving the ability to start Linux and / or other live USBs. This screen makes it wonderfully easy to experiment with distros, for how much your distro also brickt: This screen will pop up at all times as the first, even when you're off ChromeOS gemieterd. You can from this screen always reset your device to the starting point with just ChromeOS. Along with a USB ChromeOS (making via the Google website) That is the plus point of the display, the disadvantage is great or not so great, depending on how many jokers there be around your workplace. In the screen that tells your OS authentication is off and if you want to enable this, you will need to press certain buttons. If you do this, you will not be deleted but inaccessible linux distro made: you can not boot from it, so you have to turn off all costs again a few minutes again. As everyone in this screen may come when they reboot your PC at all times, it will hopefully be slowly clear why I say that physical security about nothing. Anyway, back to the how-to logic. If you want to chroot, you can directly to the useful links. I have not tried it and I also have nothing useful to say about it. For dual-boot is your best option. Chrubuntu the script (again see useful links) Through a roadmap to follow fairly simple and is almost fully automatic Linux installed for you without having to stabbing. Paw You have a choice of standard Ubuntu, Xubuntu and Lubuntu. If you want to dual-boot another distro that but you have to be a live-usb * have it. Coming up here on a tip. In addition, it is advisable to already make ChromeOS a recovery USB and have a release ready. It is in fact occurred to me that I entered the wrong with turning the script, then you must discard so the whole and over again to begin. Of course the same applies if you want to replace ChromeOS: have a recovery stick ready and make a live usb of your desired distro using the normal procedure you used. By making that live USB is a problem: it often does NOT work out-of-the-box with your tool. If you are going to boot from your USB, then it indicates that there is an error: You do not have enough memory or something like that. I have a dozen different tools used, and different PCs, so it really is the chrome book: live usbs just have trouble recognizing the geheugen.Je must command your live usb to install things change and add a line, see useful links. Please note that you are not the full 2GB trying to pinpoint, but only one gb namely my chromebook did not recognize my memory as 2GB, 1.8GB, but as you saw in my previous usage situation. It does not matter: 1gb is more than enough for the installation and when it is installed, you simply use distro you all RAM memory. Extensibility In the review I have already mentioned a number of limitations of the device, you only have 16 GB SSD and you can of course work with 2 GB, which for more intensive programs such as games probably will not be enough. I am here for the people who want to do some good and bad news with it: RAM is soldered to the motherboard and is not expandable according to initial reports. The only thing to consider is, is a 4GB edition in the States ordering. This will have no effect, except that you need for a mains adapter and the extra 3G module probably will not work: here I'm not into it. SSD to replace, but this is not an easy job. There is a walk-through now be found, which is also included in the useful links online. Here is to see that you have to disassemble because the SSD should be connected. Underneath the motherboard almost the entire laptop So you have the keyboard, fan, motherboard and the SSD itself disassemble and reassemble. In addition, the SSD of an alternative type: it has a ngFF form factor. This means that it works instead of using a SATA PCI-e connector. This allows for higher speeds is possible, but with normal use, as well as not noticeable. The only advantage which probably chosen for this form factor saves space. In addition, for those interested, there is a bump there is at least according to Pricewatch no SSD of this type available. Intel has an announced, but which is not yet delivered. EDIT: There are now a few SSDs surfaced in Pricewatch. Attached link. mistake NO MODEL: there is to be found on the original HP chromebook 14, the pavillion much information. Here, the memory could be replaced. You usually know whether it is the old version, by looking at the photos: the old model is mostly black. The new white / turquoise / salmon. Conclusion This device is up to no Linux convert to a Linux environment, then you have little to do to get the suspend / hibernate / quit and touchpad all turning up nothing knowledge with little following. If you do some word processing, and many are on the Internet, this is simply a wonderful device that has a battery life that you are using a Windows laptop for the dual need to spend. Soon It is true that with light use almost no gain in battery life: I expected that pretty much just browsing and a lot of reading should be the ~ 5am I get the battery life, at least closer to 8am. For me, the few hooks that are attached to this laptop ridiculously small for the huge price difference that you have to pay for equivalent features. That's why I give 4 stars. I would give 4.5, but that can not and although this animal is almost perfect for the price, it is not perfect and therefore not worthy of 5 stars. It stands or falls, however, on whether you will have enough to 16GB of memory (with all external solutions aside), because even for many tweaker will probably be a step too far for the SSD upgrading. The other problems can be solved with a simple reboot and only occur if you have a lot suspend / hibernate, and is not a problem that will stand in the way of your production work and will wait for 10 seconds while your system reboot is not really the difference make or miss deadlines or not gets Useful Links * Chrubuntu script and instructions: http://chromeos-cr48.blog...chromebooks-now-with.html * Chrooton (vs. Chrubuntu) and instructions: http:/ / www.howtogeek.com/...-chromebook-with-crouton/ * Other experiences with Linux editions: http://lionfacelemonface....ok-14-lubuntu-first-pass/ * Starting point for touchpad get it working: https://groups.google.com...ebook-central/95j_wAtx6Vs * replace the SSD: https://groups.google.com...ebook-central/tH5WIg3Y9aI * Live USB problems: https://bbs. archlinux.org / index.php id = 145345? * Available SSDs in Pricewatch: http://tweakers.net/categ...BdFlijpJVtJKZuaG5UmxtbS0A PS: after aflloop this lecture block I'm probably going to work with the touchpad and a few alternative distributions. If you are interested in the results and want a call when they are online, please let me know! However, Ubuntu and Debian gave many error messages on startup, and I mean a lot of 5 +. This reverses every time you boot back, so I ended up error reporting itself off when I turned these distros. This may in the long run to make sure that you are not aware of critical errors. Furthermore, Debian did on startup considerably longer: somewhere between 20 and 30 seconds. 4: USB sticks. I have a load of USB sticks in all sizes. From 256mb to 16 gig. I have approximately half of my usb sticks (which are all formatted with FAT32 and the same tool), that auto mount is not working. I have never worked for this laptop for production to this laptop with Linux so if this is a problem inherent in Linux is whether this laptop, I do not know. You will at least the manual mount command to learn or bookmark. Now, on to specific issues: Chrubuntu with Ubuntu is the most stable option of chrubuntu script. Everything works out-of-the-box and is obviously the most supported distro. There is little else to say about it. Chrubuntu with Xubuntu uses KDE as a desktop environment for all Unity haters among us. Here the same applies as for Ubuntu, except that the sound does not work directly from the taskbar. You need the sound system to boot into your start menu and then adjust the sound in the application. Ubuntu without dual-boot I first caught to see if there was missing when ChromeOS support was removed. It's not better or worse than when you dual-boot, except that you should gain that nice error messages. Debian does not taste good. During the install script often ran against all exceptions and did he do noticeably difficult. During boot this translated into boot much longer than other distros, and as I said, I got error messages after startup. I will not be long gerotzooit with some further work and have gone on to Elementary. Elementary is slightly less stable than Ubuntu, but it was close. This makes sense because Elementary was built on Ubuntu. Within Elementary I got the occasional error, but what I did notice is that it crashed more often than all other distros, especially opening / navigating the Start menu often caused lagg. With a live USB Fedora I only got kernel panic messages when I tried to install, so I can continue to say anything sensible about it. Maybe someone else can get it up and running. Linux Mint 16 MATE with Petra has been my latest experiment, and in my opinion the most successful: everything works again out-of-the-box, and I have no time to date had to lockups during use. What I have seen is that the WiFi adapter occasionally turns itself off, then you have to reboot to get back to get it working. For the rest I have tested almost everything here: second monitor via HDMI, mouse (wired / unwired), charging via USB, VirtualBox, etc. No problems. In the next chapter I discuss things you need to consider, you want to take the step. How-to , you must decide for yourself what you want to do with your device. You can chroot namely, dual-booting and ChromeOS replaced. Chrooting is running Linux on top of your ChromeOS, so you do not need to reboot and just environment can change, at the expense of performance directly. Dual boot is an option if for example you want to use when you're productive, and entertainment for Linux (Netflix, little browsing) have enough on ChromeOS. This is an immediate attention: there is an application that runs on Wine Silverlight so you can watch Netflix on Linux, but it works far from perfect. So if you are an avid Netflix'er on your laptop, then it's best to leave it ChromeOS. This device is in fact well supported by Netflix. The last option, replace ChromeOS is the option where you are most likely to come to if you really want to use for production work your laptop. You have, after all, only a 16GB disk and loosely ChromeOS + Ubuntu keep you around but 8gb over, compared to ~ 11GB with just a linux distro. Now that you've figured out what you want, the following warning applies: PHYSICAL SECURITY OF YOUR DEVICE IS a joke. The first step will be with all the options namely that you have to put your laptop. in developer mode This means that you live USBs may rotate and so you ultimately can come. Using another OS in the files of another OS You can not prevent a BIOS password, that option is not there because (as far as I can discover.) This ChromeOS will no longer control what OS you start, thus giving the ability to start Linux and / or other live USBs. This screen makes it wonderfully easy to experiment with distros, for how much your distro also brickt: This screen will pop up at all times as the first, even when you're off ChromeOS gemieterd. You can from this screen always reset your device to the starting point with just ChromeOS. Along with a USB ChromeOS (making via the Google website) That is the plus point of the display, the disadvantage is great or not so great, depending on how many jokers there be around your workplace. In the screen that tells your OS authentication is off and if you want to enable this, you will need to press certain buttons. If you do this, you will not be deleted but inaccessible linux distro made: you can not boot from it, so you have to turn off all costs again a few minutes again. As everyone in this screen may come when they reboot your PC at all times, it will hopefully be slowly clear why I say that physical security about nothing. Anyway, back to the how-to logic. If you want to chroot, you can directly to the useful links. I have not tried it and I also have nothing useful to say about it. For dual-boot is your best option. Chrubuntu the script (again see useful links) Through a roadmap to follow fairly simple and is almost fully automatic Linux installed for you without having to stabbing. Paw You have a choice of standard Ubuntu, Xubuntu and Lubuntu. If you want to dual-boot another distro that but you have to be a live-usb * have it. Coming up here on a tip. In addition, it is advisable to already make ChromeOS a recovery USB and have a release ready. It is in fact occurred to me that I entered the wrong with turning the script, then you must discard so the whole and over again to begin. Of course the same applies if you want to replace ChromeOS: have a recovery stick ready and make a live usb of your desired distro using the normal procedure you used. By making that live USB is a problem: it often does NOT work out-of-the-box with your tool. If you are going to boot from your USB, then it indicates that there is an error: You do not have enough memory or something like that. I have a dozen different tools used, and different PCs, so it really is the chrome book: live usbs just have trouble recognizing the geheugen.Je must command your live usb to install things change and add a line, see useful links. Please note that you are not the full 2GB trying to pinpoint, but only one gb namely my chromebook did not recognize my memory as 2GB, 1.8GB, but as you saw in my previous usage situation. It does not matter: 1gb is more than enough for the installation and when it is installed, you simply use distro you all RAM memory. Extensibility In the review I have already mentioned a number of limitations of the device, you only have 16 GB SSD and you can of course work with 2 GB, which for more intensive programs such as games probably will not be enough. I am here for the people who want to do some good and bad news with it: RAM is soldered to the motherboard and is not expandable according to initial reports. The only thing to consider is, is a 4GB edition in the States ordering. This will have no effect, except that you need for a mains adapter and the extra 3G module probably will not work: here I'm not into it. SSD to replace, but this is not an easy job. There is a walk-through now be found, which is also included in the useful links online. Here is to see that you have to disassemble because the SSD should be connected. Underneath the motherboard almost the entire laptop So you have the keyboard, fan, motherboard and the SSD itself disassemble and reassemble. In addition, the SSD of an alternative type: it has a ngFF form factor. This means that it works instead of using a SATA PCI-e connector. This allows for higher speeds is possible, but with normal use, as well as not noticeable. The only advantage which probably chosen for this form factor saves space. In addition, for those interested, there is a bump there is at least according to Pricewatch no SSD of this type available. Intel has an announced, but which is not yet delivered. EDIT: There are now a few SSDs surfaced in Pricewatch. Attached link. mistake NO MODEL: there is to be found on the original HP chromebook 14, the pavillion much information. Here, the memory could be replaced. You usually know whether it is the old version, by looking at the photos: the old model is mostly black. The new white / turquoise / salmon. Conclusion This device is up to no Linux convert to a Linux environment, then you have little to do to get the suspend / hibernate / quit and touchpad all turning up nothing knowledge with little following. If you do some word processing, and many are on the Internet, this is simply a wonderful device that has a battery life that you are using a Windows laptop for the dual need to spend. Soon It is true that with light use almost no gain in battery life: I expected that pretty much just browsing and a lot of reading should be the ~ 5am I get the battery life, at least closer to 8am. For me, the few hooks that are attached to this laptop ridiculously small for the huge price difference that you have to pay for equivalent features. That's why I give 4 stars. I would give 4.5, but that can not and although this animal is almost perfect for the price, it is not perfect and therefore not worthy of 5 stars. It stands or falls, however, on whether you will have enough to 16GB of memory (with all external solutions aside), because even for many tweaker will probably be a step too far for the SSD upgrading.
Introduction:
The aim of my review
Purpose of my purchase
Use till now
Input Devices
Linux compatability
How-to's
Extensibility
Conclusion and remarks
Useful links
The aim of my review
As with everything in life you can never do anything you want to do. So with this review. I bought this laptop with a specific purpose in mind, as you will read, so I want to run Linux and ChromeOS is quite funny, but I do not care so much further. This review is largely concerned with the question whether you can do production work on this machine and how much effort it takes to get it working and at what kind of things you will run. I also answered immediately a little how this machine is suitable for multimedia. For deep specs and benchmarks, I refer you to the official review of Tweakers. It makes little sense for me to measure things again, but if you like to have an additional test, I'm quite willing to run. In that case you can DM'en me with your request. purpose of my purchase I've been three years and around a bit with a gaming laptop, because I had at the time the desire to capture everything with one device off: gaming, programming, word processing, etc. Since I do however have a solid game pc installed the summer in my room, this is no longer a requirement. What I need is especially mobility: a longer battery life with a nice keyboard I basically all my typing (Informatics & BI training) along with some entertainment (Netflix, light games) can carry on. By this I actually came basically always a ultrabook, because I did not prefer to have about 2.6-pound colossus. The price of such a device is directly toward the 1000 - and since I've counted down the summer before my game devices, about the same amount I was not there to jump - although the Sony Vaio Pro / Multi-Flip there it looked tempting. When I was so on the net - and then literally introduced that day - HP chromebook 14 came, was very excited. Just add briefly the pros: * Haswell processor (dual-core 1.4 Ghz proc) * 16GB SSD * 14 "with only 1.8k weight * Advertised with 8h battery life * 2 GB RAM * And for the spectacular price of 329, - . * 4 gb that you will encounter in online reviews regularly is a separate model that also has a 3G module on board. This model in the U.S. sponsored by T-Mobile. Which gives you because free 500mb per month and the model takes only $ 50 more. This model is released in the Netherlands (yet) but the lack of 3G and less RAM after so identical. use up to now I have the laptop now around Horticultural month possession. During the first few weeks I have been busy with determining what area I wanted to use. because I do not mind to fuck, but I want to have as stable an environment as possible for when I perform production work, and it is not 1, 2, 3 possible. In total I have a nice list tried before I came across a system that worked, namely Linux Mint 16 with MATE. In order of testing: * chrubuntu (dual-boot Ubuntu and ChromeOS) * chrubuntu (dual boot ChromeOS with Xubuntu) * Ubuntu Unity (I know, ugh) 7 * Debian * Fedora (failure) * Elementary OS * Linux Mint 16 with MATE The results of my trials and further and remarks I'll talk later. since once I have chosen, my area is intensively used the laptop for my education. Of course this is not really useful information for you, so here is my current user scenarios: Workplace 1: * LibreOffice Writer * Firefox 7 tabs "google" results * NetBeans (development) * Visual Paradigm (UML drawing tool) work 2: * Firefox 8 tabs Tweakers, XDA etc. + have one tab where I stream music via 22tracks. Core 1: 22-30% load Core 2: 14-20% charged Memory 1.3 / 1.8 * charge (come down on the back *) This set-up is actually the minimum of what I stand. normally open Netflix is usually somewhere ready and / or I have 20 + tabs on both workstations. (Yes, I'm a hoarder.) I have been several times (5-10x) examined the performance while I'm so intensively and these results are representative. In the extreme situation that I outlined the ram usually still runs up to 1.6, but that does not go out as much. The important thing is that the beast so far no hitches exhibits under pressure which I command him. The only exception is when I take everything that stands above threw open simultaneously for this test. When I had a grand total of ~ 5 seconds, he just is not as tasty responded. So just fine. During use, the way I have described above, consistent between four and five hours of battery life. Multimedia For the purposes I have named, it is important to identify that there is NO full keyboard sits on the beast. The restrictions listed below, a picture is attached: * You have ten keys that you can get as F1 to F10 in Linux. You have an ESC and Quit button. * No caps lock, it is replaced by a search button that starts will open., in most distros No delete button. Perhaps the greatest shortcoming that there is. * No windows or function button. Absence of the delete button is the biggest loss in my opinion, and I still have not found a workable solution to remap this: in the settings of my distro you can not appoint a key as anything else so that the operating system does this deviant behavior. I need me delve into 3rd party tools that might be able to, but you can at least in most office software to indicate that you want to assign to a key alternative behavior. Photo: https://www.sugarsync.com/pf/ D8485810_698_205515847 mouse devices work out-of-the-box like you are a Linux user may be accustomed. been Keep in mind that, as usual, there is no support for more than two buttons. On the keyboard itself, I can say it's delicious tap. I got this review about 3k words tapped on the machine itself and find it a relief: there is little travel but clearly, as you can see many ultrabooks with their keyboards. There is about a half inch between the keys, so you rarely mistaken in your attacks and it is a standard QWERTY layout. In addition, sitting on the F and J key a striation, so you immediately have or you be forefingers in the right place. Linux compatability As I said, I have tested several areas, namely: * chrubuntu (dual-boot ChromeOS and Ubuntu) * chrubuntu ( dual-boot ChromeOS with Xubuntu) * Ubuntu Unity (I know, ugh) * Debian 7 * Fedora (failure) * Elementary OS * Linux Mint 16 with MATE Before I discuss specific issues that apply to certain distros, I want first discuss what the options are and where you're to look for. 1. You touchpad will not work yet. Drivers are available and there is info on how to get it working, but ultimately this is mostly aimed at the cheaper Acer chromebook come true simultaneously. I have followed the discussion up to a week for writing, and the most expedient solution till now was to build your own kernel. In the near future, I expect that manage chrubuntu get it working, but for now you should always have a mouse in Linux. 2. Suspend / Hibernate and Shutdown work tedious if you dual-boot, single boot or chroot, no matter what distro you're running. You must take into account that the animal freezes and you have to reboot hard or you wifi adapter / sound is frozen and will not work until you reboot. If you use it, I have not tested it a hundred times on each option, but a few times and can say that Ubuntu and Debian were the least stable. Oh yeah, wireless mice are sometimes caught after a résumé. Then you have your receiver is just lash out and insert it again. This problem does not have to wired versions. 3. Booting into Linux course is amazing fast, especially in combination with an SSD. I myself after chrome screen (moment) often only 5 to 10 seconds before my mint fully loaded and ready to be used. However, Ubuntu and Debian gave many error messages on startup, and I mean a lot of 5 +. This reverses every time you boot back, so I ended up error reporting itself off when I turned these distros. This may in the long run to make sure that you are not aware of critical errors. Furthermore, Debian did on startup considerably longer: somewhere between 20 and 30 seconds. 4: USB sticks. I have a load of USB sticks in all sizes. From 256mb to 16 gig. I have approximately half of my usb sticks (which are all formatted with FAT32 and the same tool), that auto mount is not working. I have never worked for this laptop for production to this laptop with Linux so if this is a problem inherent in Linux is whether this laptop, I do not know. You will at least the manual mount command to learn or bookmark. Now, on to specific issues: Chrubuntu with Ubuntu is the most stable option of chrubuntu script. Everything works out-of-the-box and is obviously the most supported distro. There is little else to say about it. Chrubuntu with Xubuntu uses KDE as a desktop environment for all Unity haters among us. Here the same applies as for Ubuntu, except that the sound does not work directly from the taskbar. You need the sound system to boot into your start menu and then adjust the sound in the application. Ubuntu without dual-boot I first caught to see if there was missing when ChromeOS support was removed. It's not better or worse than when you dual-boot, except that you should gain that nice error messages. Debian does not taste good. During the install script often ran against all exceptions and did he do noticeably difficult. During boot this translated into boot much longer than other distros, and as I said, I got error messages after startup. I will not be long gerotzooit with some further work and have gone on to Elementary. Elementary is slightly less stable than Ubuntu, but it was close. This makes sense because Elementary was built on Ubuntu. Within Elementary I got the occasional error, but what I did notice is that it crashed more often than all other distros, especially opening / navigating the Start menu often caused lagg. With a live USB Fedora I only got kernel panic messages when I tried to install, so I can continue to say anything sensible about it. Maybe someone else can get it up and running. Linux Mint 16 MATE with Petra has been my latest experiment, and in my opinion the most successful: everything works again out-of-the-box, and I have no time to date had to lockups during use. What I have seen is that the WiFi adapter occasionally turns itself off, then you have to reboot to get back to get it working. For the rest I have tested almost everything here: second monitor via HDMI, mouse (wired / unwired), charging via USB, VirtualBox, etc. No problems. In the next chapter I discuss things you need to consider, you want to take the step. How-to , you must decide for yourself what you want to do with your device. You can chroot namely, dual-booting and ChromeOS replaced. Chrooting is running Linux on top of your ChromeOS, so you do not need to reboot and just environment can change, at the expense of performance directly. Dual boot is an option if for example you want to use when you're productive, and entertainment for Linux (Netflix, little browsing) have enough on ChromeOS. This is an immediate attention: there is an application that runs on Wine Silverlight so you can watch Netflix on Linux, but it works far from perfect. So if you are an avid Netflix'er on your laptop, then it's best to leave it ChromeOS. This device is in fact well supported by Netflix. The last option, replace ChromeOS is the option where you are most likely to come to if you really want to use for production work your laptop. You have, after all, only a 16GB disk and loosely ChromeOS + Ubuntu keep you around but 8gb over, compared to ~ 11GB with just a linux distro. Now that you've figured out what you want, the following warning applies: PHYSICAL SECURITY OF YOUR DEVICE IS a joke. The first step will be with all the options namely that you have to put your laptop. in developer mode This means that you live USBs may rotate and so you ultimately can come. Using another OS in the files of another OS You can not prevent a BIOS password, that option is not there because (as far as I can discover.) This ChromeOS will no longer control what OS you start, thus giving the ability to start Linux and / or other live USBs. This screen makes it wonderfully easy to experiment with distros, for how much your distro also brickt: This screen will pop up at all times as the first, even when you're off ChromeOS gemieterd. You can from this screen always reset your device to the starting point with just ChromeOS. Along with a USB ChromeOS (making via the Google website) That is the plus point of the display, the disadvantage is great or not so great, depending on how many jokers there be around your workplace. In the screen that tells your OS authentication is off and if you want to enable this, you will need to press certain buttons. If you do this, you will not be deleted but inaccessible linux distro made: you can not boot from it, so you have to turn off all costs again a few minutes again. As everyone in this screen may come when they reboot your PC at all times, it will hopefully be slowly clear why I say that physical security about nothing. Anyway, back to the how-to logic. If you want to chroot, you can directly to the useful links. I have not tried it and I also have nothing useful to say about it. For dual-boot is your best option. Chrubuntu the script (again see useful links) Through a roadmap to follow fairly simple and is almost fully automatic Linux installed for you without having to stabbing. Paw You have a choice of standard Ubuntu, Xubuntu and Lubuntu. If you want to dual-boot another distro that but you have to be a live-usb * have it. Coming up here on a tip. In addition, it is advisable to already make ChromeOS a recovery USB and have a release ready. It is in fact occurred to me that I entered the wrong with turning the script, then you must discard so the whole and over again to begin. Of course the same applies if you want to replace ChromeOS: have a recovery stick ready and make a live usb of your desired distro using the normal procedure you used. By making that live USB is a problem: it often does NOT work out-of-the-box with your tool. If you are going to boot from your USB, then it indicates that there is an error: You do not have enough memory or something like that. I have a dozen different tools used, and different PCs, so it really is the chrome book: live usbs just have trouble recognizing the geheugen.Je must command your live usb to install things change and add a line, see useful links. Please note that you are not the full 2GB trying to pinpoint, but only one gb namely my chromebook did not recognize my memory as 2GB, 1.8GB, but as you saw in my previous usage situation. It does not matter: 1gb is more than enough for the installation and when it is installed, you simply use distro you all RAM memory. Extensibility In the review I have already mentioned a number of limitations of the device, you only have 16 GB SSD and you can of course work with 2 GB, which for more intensive programs such as games probably will not be enough. I am here for the people who want to do some good and bad news with it: RAM is soldered to the motherboard and is not expandable according to initial reports. The only thing to consider is, is a 4GB edition in the States ordering. This will have no effect, except that you need for a mains adapter and the extra 3G module probably will not work: here I'm not into it. SSD to replace, but this is not an easy job. There is a walk-through now be found, which is also included in the useful links online. Here is to see that you have to disassemble because the SSD should be connected. Underneath the motherboard almost the entire laptop So you have the keyboard, fan, motherboard and the SSD itself disassemble and reassemble. In addition, the SSD of an alternative type: it has a ngFF form factor. This means that it works instead of using a SATA PCI-e connector. This allows for higher speeds is possible, but with normal use, as well as not noticeable. The only advantage which probably chosen for this form factor saves space. In addition, for those interested, there is a bump there is at least according to Pricewatch no SSD of this type available. Intel has an announced, but which is not yet delivered. EDIT: There are now a few SSDs surfaced in Pricewatch. Attached link. mistake NO MODEL: there is to be found on the original HP chromebook 14, the pavillion much information. Here, the memory could be replaced. You usually know whether it is the old version, by looking at the photos: the old model is mostly black. The new white / turquoise / salmon. Conclusion This device is up to no Linux convert to a Linux environment, then you have little to do to get the suspend / hibernate / quit and touchpad all turning up nothing knowledge with little following. If you do some word processing, and many are on the Internet, this is simply a wonderful device that has a battery life that you are using a Windows laptop for the dual need to spend. Soon It is true that with light use almost no gain in battery life: I expected that pretty much just browsing and a lot of reading should be the ~ 5am I get the battery life, at least closer to 8am. For me, the few hooks that are attached to this laptop ridiculously small for the huge price difference that you have to pay for equivalent features. That's why I give 4 stars. I would give 4.5, but that can not and although this animal is almost perfect for the price, it is not perfect and therefore not worthy of 5 stars. It stands or falls, however, on whether you will have enough to 16GB of memory (with all external solutions aside), because even for many tweaker will probably be a step too far for the SSD upgrading. The other problems can be solved with a simple reboot and only occur if you have a lot suspend / hibernate, and is not a problem that will stand in the way of your production work and will wait for 10 seconds while your system reboot is not really the difference make or miss deadlines or not gets Useful Links * Chrubuntu script and instructions: http://chromeos-cr48.blog...chromebooks-now-with.html * Chrooton (vs. Chrubuntu) and instructions: http:/ / www.howtogeek.com/...-chromebook-with-crouton/ * Other experiences with Linux editions: http://lionfacelemonface....ok-14-lubuntu-first-pass/ * Starting point for touchpad get it working: https://groups.google.com...ebook-central/95j_wAtx6Vs * replace the SSD: https://groups.google.com...ebook-central/tH5WIg3Y9aI * Live USB problems: https://bbs. archlinux.org / index.php id = 145345? * Available SSDs in Pricewatch: http://tweakers.net/categ...BdFlijpJVtJKZuaG5UmxtbS0A PS: after aflloop this lecture block I'm probably going to work with the touchpad and a few alternative distributions. If you are interested in the results and want a call when they are online, please let me know! However, Ubuntu and Debian gave many error messages on startup, and I mean a lot of 5 +. This reverses every time you boot back, so I ended up error reporting itself off when I turned these distros. This may in the long run to make sure that you are not aware of critical errors. Furthermore, Debian did on startup considerably longer: somewhere between 20 and 30 seconds. 4: USB sticks. I have a load of USB sticks in all sizes. From 256mb to 16 gig. I have approximately half of my usb sticks (which are all formatted with FAT32 and the same tool), that auto mount is not working. I have never worked for this laptop for production to this laptop with Linux so if this is a problem inherent in Linux is whether this laptop, I do not know. You will at least the manual mount command to learn or bookmark. Now, on to specific issues: Chrubuntu with Ubuntu is the most stable option of chrubuntu script. Everything works out-of-the-box and is obviously the most supported distro. There is little else to say about it. Chrubuntu with Xubuntu uses KDE as a desktop environment for all Unity haters among us. Here the same applies as for Ubuntu, except that the sound does not work directly from the taskbar. You need the sound system to boot into your start menu and then adjust the sound in the application. Ubuntu without dual-boot I first caught to see if there was missing when ChromeOS support was removed. It's not better or worse than when you dual-boot, except that you should gain that nice error messages. Debian does not taste good. During the install script often ran against all exceptions and did he do noticeably difficult. During boot this translated into boot much longer than other distros, and as I said, I got error messages after startup. I will not be long gerotzooit with some further work and have gone on to Elementary. Elementary is slightly less stable than Ubuntu, but it was close. This makes sense because Elementary was built on Ubuntu. Within Elementary I got the occasional error, but what I did notice is that it crashed more often than all other distros, especially opening / navigating the Start menu often caused lagg. With a live USB Fedora I only got kernel panic messages when I tried to install, so I can continue to say anything sensible about it. Maybe someone else can get it up and running. Linux Mint 16 MATE with Petra has been my latest experiment, and in my opinion the most successful: everything works again out-of-the-box, and I have no time to date had to lockups during use. What I have seen is that the WiFi adapter occasionally turns itself off, then you have to reboot to get back to get it working. For the rest I have tested almost everything here: second monitor via HDMI, mouse (wired / unwired), charging via USB, VirtualBox, etc. No problems. In the next chapter I discuss things you need to consider, you want to take the step. How-to , you must decide for yourself what you want to do with your device. You can chroot namely, dual-booting and ChromeOS replaced. Chrooting is running Linux on top of your ChromeOS, so you do not need to reboot and just environment can change, at the expense of performance directly. Dual boot is an option if for example you want to use when you're productive, and entertainment for Linux (Netflix, little browsing) have enough on ChromeOS. This is an immediate attention: there is an application that runs on Wine Silverlight so you can watch Netflix on Linux, but it works far from perfect. So if you are an avid Netflix'er on your laptop, then it's best to leave it ChromeOS. This device is in fact well supported by Netflix. The last option, replace ChromeOS is the option where you are most likely to come to if you really want to use for production work your laptop. You have, after all, only a 16GB disk and loosely ChromeOS + Ubuntu keep you around but 8gb over, compared to ~ 11GB with just a linux distro. Now that you've figured out what you want, the following warning applies: PHYSICAL SECURITY OF YOUR DEVICE IS a joke. The first step will be with all the options namely that you have to put your laptop. in developer mode This means that you live USBs may rotate and so you ultimately can come. Using another OS in the files of another OS You can not prevent a BIOS password, that option is not there because (as far as I can discover.) This ChromeOS will no longer control what OS you start, thus giving the ability to start Linux and / or other live USBs. This screen makes it wonderfully easy to experiment with distros, for how much your distro also brickt: This screen will pop up at all times as the first, even when you're off ChromeOS gemieterd. You can from this screen always reset your device to the starting point with just ChromeOS. Along with a USB ChromeOS (making via the Google website) That is the plus point of the display, the disadvantage is great or not so great, depending on how many jokers there be around your workplace. In the screen that tells your OS authentication is off and if you want to enable this, you will need to press certain buttons. If you do this, you will not be deleted but inaccessible linux distro made: you can not boot from it, so you have to turn off all costs again a few minutes again. As everyone in this screen may come when they reboot your PC at all times, it will hopefully be slowly clear why I say that physical security about nothing. Anyway, back to the how-to logic. If you want to chroot, you can directly to the useful links. I have not tried it and I also have nothing useful to say about it. For dual-boot is your best option. Chrubuntu the script (again see useful links) Through a roadmap to follow fairly simple and is almost fully automatic Linux installed for you without having to stabbing. Paw You have a choice of standard Ubuntu, Xubuntu and Lubuntu. If you want to dual-boot another distro that but you have to be a live-usb * have it. Coming up here on a tip. In addition, it is advisable to already make ChromeOS a recovery USB and have a release ready. It is in fact occurred to me that I entered the wrong with turning the script, then you must discard so the whole and over again to begin. Of course the same applies if you want to replace ChromeOS: have a recovery stick ready and make a live usb of your desired distro using the normal procedure you used. By making that live USB is a problem: it often does NOT work out-of-the-box with your tool. If you are going to boot from your USB, then it indicates that there is an error: You do not have enough memory or something like that. I have a dozen different tools used, and different PCs, so it really is the chrome book: live usbs just have trouble recognizing the geheugen.Je must command your live usb to install things change and add a line, see useful links. Please note that you are not the full 2GB trying to pinpoint, but only one gb namely my chromebook did not recognize my memory as 2GB, 1.8GB, but as you saw in my previous usage situation. It does not matter: 1gb is more than enough for the installation and when it is installed, you simply use distro you all RAM memory. Extensibility In the review I have already mentioned a number of limitations of the device, you only have 16 GB SSD and you can of course work with 2 GB, which for more intensive programs such as games probably will not be enough. I am here for the people who want to do some good and bad news with it: RAM is soldered to the motherboard and is not expandable according to initial reports. The only thing to consider is, is a 4GB edition in the States ordering. This will have no effect, except that you need for a mains adapter and the extra 3G module probably will not work: here I'm not into it. SSD to replace, but this is not an easy job. There is a walk-through now be found, which is also included in the useful links online. Here is to see that you have to disassemble because the SSD should be connected. Underneath the motherboard almost the entire laptop So you have the keyboard, fan, motherboard and the SSD itself disassemble and reassemble. In addition, the SSD of an alternative type: it has a ngFF form factor. This means that it works instead of using a SATA PCI-e connector. This allows for higher speeds is possible, but with normal use, as well as not noticeable. The only advantage which probably chosen for this form factor saves space. In addition, for those interested, there is a bump there is at least according to Pricewatch no SSD of this type available. Intel has an announced, but which is not yet delivered. EDIT: There are now a few SSDs surfaced in Pricewatch. Attached link. mistake NO MODEL: there is to be found on the original HP chromebook 14, the pavillion much information. Here, the memory could be replaced. You usually know whether it is the old version, by looking at the photos: the old model is mostly black. The new white / turquoise / salmon. Conclusion This device is up to no Linux convert to a Linux environment, then you have little to do to get the suspend / hibernate / quit and touchpad all turning up nothing knowledge with little following. If you do some word processing, and many are on the Internet, this is simply a wonderful device that has a battery life that you are using a Windows laptop for the dual need to spend. Soon It is true that with light use almost no gain in battery life: I expected that pretty much just browsing and a lot of reading should be the ~ 5am I get the battery life, at least closer to 8am. For me, the few hooks that are attached to this laptop ridiculously small for the huge price difference that you have to pay for equivalent features. That's why I give 4 stars. I would give 4.5, but that can not and although this animal is almost perfect for the price, it is not perfect and therefore not worthy of 5 stars. It stands or falls, however, on whether you will have enough to 16GB of memory (with all external solutions aside), because even for many tweaker will probably be a step too far for the SSD upgrading. The other problems can be solved with a simple reboot and only occur if you have a lot suspend / hibernate, and is not a problem that will stand in the way of your production work and will wait for 10 seconds while your system reboot is not really the difference make or miss deadlines or not gets Useful Links * Chrubuntu script and instructions: http://chromeos-cr48.blog...chromebooks-now-with.html * Chrooton (vs. Chrubuntu) and instructions: http:/ / www.howtogeek.com/...-chromebook-with-crouton/ * Other experiences with Linux editions: http://lionfacelemonface....ok-14-lubuntu-first-pass/ * Starting point for touchpad get it working: https://groups.google.com...ebook-central/95j_wAtx6Vs * replace the SSD: https://groups.google.com...ebook-central/tH5WIg3Y9aI * Live USB problems: https://bbs. archlinux.org / index.php id = 145345? * Available SSDs in Pricewatch: http://tweakers.net/categ...BdFlijpJVtJKZuaG5UmxtbS0A PS: after aflloop this lecture block I'm probably going to work with the touchpad and a few alternative distributions. If you are interested in the results and want a call when they are online, please let me know! However, Ubuntu and Debian gave many error messages on startup, and I mean a lot of 5 +. This reverses every time you boot back, so I ended up error reporting itself off when I turned these distros. This may in the long run to make sure that you are not aware of critical errors. Furthermore, Debian did on startup considerably longer: somewhere between 20 and 30 seconds. 4: USB sticks. I have a load of USB sticks in all sizes. From 256mb to 16 gig. I have approximately half of my usb sticks (which are all formatted with FAT32 and the same tool), that auto mount is not working. I have never worked for this laptop for production to this laptop with Linux so if this is a problem inherent in Linux is whether this laptop, I do not know. You will at least the manual mount command to learn or bookmark. Now, on to specific issues: Chrubuntu with Ubuntu is the most stable option of chrubuntu script. Everything works out-of-the-box and is obviously the most supported distro. There is little else to say about it. Chrubuntu with Xubuntu uses KDE as a desktop environment for all Unity haters among us. Here the same applies as for Ubuntu, except that the sound does not work directly from the taskbar. You need the sound system to boot into your start menu and then adjust the sound in the application. Ubuntu without dual-boot I first caught to see if there was missing when ChromeOS support was removed. It's not better or worse than when you dual-boot, except that you should gain that nice error messages. Debian does not taste good. During the install script often ran against all exceptions and did he do noticeably difficult. During boot this translated into boot much longer than other distros, and as I said, I got error messages after startup. I will not be long gerotzooit with some further work and have gone on to Elementary. Elementary is slightly less stable than Ubuntu, but it was close. This makes sense because Elementary was built on Ubuntu. Within Elementary I got the occasional error, but what I did notice is that it crashed more often than all other distros, especially opening / navigating the Start menu often caused lagg. With a live USB Fedora I only got kernel panic messages when I tried to install, so I can continue to say anything sensible about it. Maybe someone else can get it up and running. Linux Mint 16 MATE with Petra has been my latest experiment, and in my opinion the most successful: everything works again out-of-the-box, and I have no time to date had to lockups during use. What I have seen is that the WiFi adapter occasionally turns itself off, then you have to reboot to get back to get it working. For the rest I have tested almost everything here: second monitor via HDMI, mouse (wired / unwired), charging via USB, VirtualBox, etc. No problems. In the next chapter I discuss things you need to consider, you want to take the step. How-to , you must decide for yourself what you want to do with your device. You can chroot namely, dual-booting and ChromeOS replaced. Chrooting is running Linux on top of your ChromeOS, so you do not need to reboot and just environment can change, at the expense of performance directly. Dual boot is an option if for example you want to use when you're productive, and entertainment for Linux (Netflix, little browsing) have enough on ChromeOS. This is an immediate attention: there is an application that runs on Wine Silverlight so you can watch Netflix on Linux, but it works far from perfect. So if you are an avid Netflix'er on your laptop, then it's best to leave it ChromeOS. This device is in fact well supported by Netflix. The last option, replace ChromeOS is the option where you are most likely to come to if you really want to use for production work your laptop. You have, after all, only a 16GB disk and loosely ChromeOS + Ubuntu keep you around but 8gb over, compared to ~ 11GB with just a linux distro. Now that you've figured out what you want, the following warning applies: PHYSICAL SECURITY OF YOUR DEVICE IS a joke. The first step will be with all the options namely that you have to put your laptop. in developer mode This means that you live USBs may rotate and so you ultimately can come. Using another OS in the files of another OS You can not prevent a BIOS password, that option is not there because (as far as I can discover.) This ChromeOS will no longer control what OS you start, thus giving the ability to start Linux and / or other live USBs. This screen makes it wonderfully easy to experiment with distros, for how much your distro also brickt: This screen will pop up at all times as the first, even when you're off ChromeOS gemieterd. You can from this screen always reset your device to the starting point with just ChromeOS. Along with a USB ChromeOS (making via the Google website) That is the plus point of the display, the disadvantage is great or not so great, depending on how many jokers there be around your workplace. In the screen that tells your OS authentication is off and if you want to enable this, you will need to press certain buttons. If you do this, you will not be deleted but inaccessible linux distro made: you can not boot from it, so you have to turn off all costs again a few minutes again. As everyone in this screen may come when they reboot your PC at all times, it will hopefully be slowly clear why I say that physical security about nothing. Anyway, back to the how-to logic. If you want to chroot, you can directly to the useful links. I have not tried it and I also have nothing useful to say about it. For dual-boot is your best option. Chrubuntu the script (again see useful links) Through a roadmap to follow fairly simple and is almost fully automatic Linux installed for you without having to stabbing. Paw You have a choice of standard Ubuntu, Xubuntu and Lubuntu. If you want to dual-boot another distro that but you have to be a live-usb * have it. Coming up here on a tip. In addition, it is advisable to already make ChromeOS a recovery USB and have a release ready. It is in fact occurred to me that I entered the wrong with turning the script, then you must discard so the whole and over again to begin. Of course the same applies if you want to replace ChromeOS: have a recovery stick ready and make a live usb of your desired distro using the normal procedure you used. By making that live USB is a problem: it often does NOT work out-of-the-box with your tool. If you are going to boot from your USB, then it indicates that there is an error: You do not have enough memory or something like that. I have a dozen different tools used, and different PCs, so it really is the chrome book: live usbs just have trouble recognizing the geheugen.Je must command your live usb to install things change and add a line, see useful links. Please note that you are not the full 2GB trying to pinpoint, but only one gb namely my chromebook did not recognize my memory as 2GB, 1.8GB, but as you saw in my previous usage situation. It does not matter: 1gb is more than enough for the installation and when it is installed, you simply use distro you all RAM memory. Extensibility In the review I have already mentioned a number of limitations of the device, you only have 16 GB SSD and you can of course work with 2 GB, which for more intensive programs such as games probably will not be enough. I am here for the people who want to do some good and bad news with it: RAM is soldered to the motherboard and is not expandable according to initial reports. The only thing to consider is, is a 4GB edition in the States ordering. This will have no effect, except that you need for a mains adapter and the extra 3G module probably will not work: here I'm not into it. SSD to replace, but this is not an easy job. There is a walk-through now be found, which is also included in the useful links online. Here is to see that you have to disassemble because the SSD should be connected. Underneath the motherboard almost the entire laptop So you have the keyboard, fan, motherboard and the SSD itself disassemble and reassemble. In addition, the SSD of an alternative type: it has a ngFF form factor. This means that it works instead of using a SATA PCI-e connector. This allows for higher speeds is possible, but with normal use, as well as not noticeable. The only advantage which probably chosen for this form factor saves space. In addition, for those interested, there is a bump there is at least according to Pricewatch no SSD of this type available. Intel has an announced, but which is not yet delivered. EDIT: There are now a few SSDs surfaced in Pricewatch. Attached link. mistake NO MODEL: there is to be found on the original HP chromebook 14, the pavillion much information. Here, the memory could be replaced. You usually know whether it is the old version, by looking at the photos: the old model is mostly black. The new white / turquoise / salmon. Conclusion This device is up to no Linux convert to a Linux environment, then you have little to do to get the suspend / hibernate / quit and touchpad all turning up nothing knowledge with little following. If you do some word processing, and many are on the Internet, this is simply a wonderful device that has a battery life that you are using a Windows laptop for the dual need to spend. Soon It is true that with light use almost no gain in battery life: I expected that pretty much just browsing and a lot of reading should be the ~ 5am I get the battery life, at least closer to 8am. For me, the few hooks that are attached to this laptop ridiculously small for the huge price difference that you have to pay for equivalent features. That's why I give 4 stars. I would give 4.5, but that can not and although this animal is almost perfect for the price, it is not perfect and therefore not worthy of 5 stars. It stands or falls, however, on whether you will have enough to 16GB of memory (with all external solutions aside), because even for many tweaker will probably be a step too far for the SSD upgrading.
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