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On Saturday 27 April 2013 07:06:41 AM IST, Grant wrote: |
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>>> My wife and I recently visited Vanuatu (island of Santo) and fell in |
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>>> love with it. We got to know some locals pretty well and everybody is |
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>>> pining for laptops. Internet service is becoming widely available due |
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>>> to Digicel and TVL cell phone signals but I didn't meet anyone with a |
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>>> real smartphone. I promised to return with laptops and I'd like to |
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>>> make good on that. Which ultra low-cost but functional laptops or |
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>>> netbooks would you choose for this? I'm looking into OLPC but I'm not |
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>>> sure how that works. |
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>>> |
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>>> - Grant |
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>>> |
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>> I heard Chromebooks are cheap, but I don't know what's their exact cost / |
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>> feasibility / etc. |
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> I think the problem there is a Chromebook needs to be online in order |
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> to do much of anything, and the connection needs to be fast in order |
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> to make them very functional. Plus most people are paying by the MB |
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> in Vanuatu and a Chromebook must use a fair amount of data even on a |
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> fast connection. |
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> - Grant |
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Well, any Chromebook can run a normal Linux distro. The chromebook team |
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has put up a chroot helper on their github. |
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