<div dir="ltr">I can't praise my slim and affordable Samsung Chromebook with Ubuntu installed on it enough.<div><br></div><div style>The screen is a nice matte, without the harsh glare of the cheaper netbooks. The keyboard is simplified greatly, making for less fumbling for tiny modifier keys. The 16GB SSD and 4GB of RAM have been more than sufficient for graphics design, audio editing, and having eleventy-billion tabs open at a time. The battery life is impressive, even with heavy use.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Not for everyone, of course, but I've never been so happy with a computer.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>- <a href="http://www.swarmstrategies.com/matt" target="_blank">Matt Parrott</a> ˇ (317) 324-8282 ˇ Skype: matt.parrott</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Clay Dowling <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clay@lazarusid.com" target="_blank">clay@lazarusid.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 02/06/2013 09:17 PM, Nathan Hartley wrote:<br>
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Until recently, I had been in the market for a ultra-portable computer, a long time. Besides the Lenovos, I had my eye on Zareason's (<a href="http://zareason.com/shop/UltraLap-430.html" target="_blank">http://zareason.com/shop/<u></u>UltraLap-430.html</a>). Eventually, I decided that I could get away with an Android Tablet (Asus Transformer TF300). It was a third cheaper than the ultrabooks I was looking at. There are apps that will do most of what I need, when I'm out and about. But since I've bought it, I have been disappointed at almost every turn. It is a giant phone, without the usefulness of being able to call someone. Oddly enough, one of my biggest complaints is the awkward copy-n-paste interface. Besides it taking 10+ seconds to copy anything, if you try to copy more than a sentence the selector starts jumping around on you.<br>
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A number of us own that tablet or similar. Spend the $100 and get the keyboard. Completely changes how you interact with the machine. The pointer still isn't as elegant as you'd get with a regular laptop, but it's close.<div class="HOEnZb">
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