David Pottage wrote:
IIRC though their "benchmark" consisted of copy files to/from the internal flash, so it may have been the internal flash that was slow.On 09/03/13 11:02, Oliver Grawert wrote:get a few chromebooks, 2G of ram, fast CPU and debian/ubuntu supported ... admittedly no SATA but USB 3.0 which should be speedy enough ... for networking get an USB 2.0 NIC (if you need wired) and enjoy that they come with a builtin UPSApparently the USB3 socket is not actually useful. anandtech.com Benchmarked it when they reviewed the Chromebook, and only got 12.7MB/s (while running ChromeOS), which is barely more than the maximum speed for USB2.
I don't see any real reason to choose the chromebook over the arndaleboard though (same processor, same ram, about the same price, worse interfaces).