Re: arm build hardware

[David Pottage <david@chrestomanci.org>]

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 UPS

Apparently 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.

Having said that, the Chromebook might still be workable, if Peter can get the working files for a build into the 16Gb of on board flash, and then boot the build environment from a slower SD card or USB key.

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David Pottage