I just completed Ian's tests on my C2D laptop which is fairly close to the performance of the C7. Looking closer at Ian's Chromebook results I have noticed that the Samsung Exynos 5 Chromebook is a really bad value price vs. performance wise. Epic fail! You can clearly see the massive performance difference between ARM and Intel i7 in Ian's tests. My results are far closer to the i7 than to the Exynos 5 even with a 7 year old cpu. Obviously ARM arch, even with Exynos 5, still has a long way to go to catch up to Intel. I'm a big ARM supporter. But the results here do not make me optimistic.
My results confirm the Acer C7 is by far the winner in the value contest. If you have the extra $100, don't need the HDMI dongle form-factor, and just want to run Linux, there is absolutely no point in getting a Mini-PC. Get a C7 Chromebook instead.
Once I get all the results consolidated, and also have the C7 results, I will post a link.
My results confirm the Acer C7 is by far the winner in the value contest. If you have the extra $100, don't need the HDMI dongle form-factor, and just want to run Linux, there is absolutely no point in getting a Mini-PC. Get a C7 Chromebook instead.
Once I get all the results consolidated, and also have the C7 results, I will post a link.