FreeBSD on Acer C710 Chromebook

Matthias Apitz guru at unixarea.de
Sun Dec 28 17:32:06 UTC 2014


El día Saturday, December 27, 2014 a las 12:51:12PM -0800, Adrian Chadd escribió:

> cool.
> 
> well, Matthew Dillon / DragonflyBSD project just bought me a C720, so
> I'll be able to shephard in the patches into -HEAD soon.

Adrian,

I took the decision and bought the C720. So, I can help with testing and
debugging what is coming up in -HEAD. Thanks

	matthias

> On 27 December 2014 at 11:11, Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:
> > El día Saturday, December 27, 2014 a las 11:52:16AM -0700, Warren Block escribió:
> >
> >> The C710's advantage is that RAM can be added and it takes a normal 2.5
> >> SATA device (7mm, but still).
> >>
> >> The C720 has a faster processor, but RAM (2G) is soldered in, there are
> >> no sockets, and the SSD is the newer M.2 form factor.  It already has
> >> SeaBIOS, though.
> >
> > Re/ C720: There are detailed information and patches how to install
> > HEAD on a C720;
> >
> > I found a video in Youtube about updating the SSD to 128 GByte and
> > checked the price of such SSD (around 100 Euro). The video as well shows
> > the RAM soldered as 4 chips. But, I think for the purpose (netbook)
> > 2 Gbyte is pretty much enough:
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jOHHyJMgWk
> >
> > I'm still thinking about buying the C720 ... There are offers for 200 Euro.
> > It could really be a replacement for my nearly 8 years old EeePC 900.
> >
> >         matthias
> > --
> > Matthias Apitz, guru at unixarea.de, http://www.unixarea.de/ +49-170-4527211
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Matthias Apitz, guru at unixarea.de, http://www.unixarea.de/ +49-170-4527211
1989-2014: The Wall was torn down so that we go to war together again.
El Muro ha sido derribado para que nos unimos en ir a la guerra otra vez.
Diese Grenze wurde aufgehoben damit wir gemeinsam wieder in den Krieg ziehen.


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