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Date:      Tue, 05 Feb 2013 23:39:03 -0200
From:      Sergio de Almeida Lenzi <lenzi.sergio@gmail.com>
To:        Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on Acer C7 Chromebook?
Message-ID:  <1360114743.80620.38.camel@z6000.lenzicasa>
In-Reply-To: <51111AF9.2090006@qeng-ho.org>
References:  <51111AF9.2090006@qeng-ho.org>

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Em Ter, 2013-02-05 às 14:45 +0000, Arthur Chance escreveu:

> [I'm not sure whether this would be better on -hackers@ or -hardware@ 
> but -questions@ seems like a good place to start.]
> 
> Is anyone considering getting FBSD to run on the Acer C7 Chromebook? The 
> pros are that it's a cheap, small and relatively lightweight 64 bit 
> Intel portable using integrated Intel graphics. The cons are that it's a 
> Chromebook, so has a completely non-standard BIOS and boot sequence. 
> However, Ubuntu has been hacked to boot on it (Google for "ChrUbuntu") 
> so it's not totally locked down.
> 
> This would make a very useful little system, but the programming needed 
> is beyond my skill set I'm afraid.
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A long time ago I swear NEVER ever buy ACER product, the bios is no
standard,
and they do not care about the clients.

I bought sevral notebooks very cheap that are built around the AMD
vision,
Lenovo 845 here costs about US$400 payed in 10 parts of US$40... 





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