Saturday, October 12, 2013

... and another ARM based laptop from Lenovo, this time with Android

Lenovo IdeaPad A10
10' Screen
CPU Rockchip RK3188 (4 cores),
1GB RAM (2GB option available too),
16GB SSD (32 GB option),
Android 4.2

http://liliputing.com/2013/10/lenovo-ideapad-a10-convertible-android-tablet-netbook.html

Available now on Amazon.de for 250 EUR

http://www.amazon.de/Lenovo-IdeaPad-Tablet-PC-Rockchip-Android/dp/B00FDL415G

New ARM Chromebook from HP :)

There are new HP chromebook with ARM CPU.

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-new-hp-chromebook-made-with-google_8.html

Some better pictures can be seen on Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FJXVRM8

However, this new HP have nothing more than old Samsung chromebook -
It hassame Samsung CPU, same 2 GB RAM and same 16 GB nand flash

The only plus I can see at the moment is the micro USB for charging.

Weight
  • 2.30lb / 1.04kg
CPU
  • Exynos 5250 GAIA Application Processor
Memory
  • 2GB (4x 4Gbit) DDR3 RAM
  • 16GB Solid State Drive
Audio
  • Combined headphone / microphone jack
  • Digitally-tuned speakers with sound directed up through the keyboard
Battery
  • Your Chromebook has up to 6 hours of active use (30 Wh battery)*
Network
  • Dual-band WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n
  • Bluetooth 4.0
Goodies
  • 100 GB Google Drive cloud storage, free for two years**
  • 60-day free trial with Google Play Music All Access, and $9.99 per month after that***
  • 12 free sessions of GoGo Inflight Internet****

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Revert to "secure mode" on Chromebook with Linux installed on internal "SSD"

In case you have installed Linux on internal "SSD", every time you start the Chromebook, you will get:

"Chrome OS verification is turned off"

Because nobody explained what will happen if you press space at this point, I decided to try it.

When you press space bar, the Chromebook ask you for second confirmation, then restarts in "normal" mode.

Then because there is no valid OS, it will not boot and you should restore ChromeOS from SD card or USB flash. During this restore, the data on internal SSD will be deleted.