Comment 6EAF Re: will the stick work with an old laptop?

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will the stick work with an old laptop? (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2015-04-03 19:41 (#6CBE)

I read the linked article but it didn't answer my question. I have a nice older IBM ThinkPad T40 with a great keyboard, touchpoint (pointing device) and screen. The processor is slow and whatever has messed up the WinXP installation makes it even slower--to the point that it is effectively unusable.

Will the Chromebit stick be able to "take over" and utilize the ThinkPad hardware?

Re: will the stick work with an old laptop? (Score: 2, Informative)

by evilviper@pipedot.org on 2015-04-03 20:40 (#6CDT)

Nope. Not unless your laptop has HDMI inputs, and the rest of hardware (keyboard, mouse, etc), can be plugged-in to a USB hub... The Chromebit is designed to plug-in to HDTV & computer monitors, taking over for a tower PC.

Besides, a Chromebook is only $50 more than the Chromebit... so if you want the laptop form-factor, you should spend the extra $50 and get the former, ready to go out-of-the-box.

Re: will the stick work with an old laptop? (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2015-04-05 03:00 (#6EAF)

Thanks for the answer, too bad this won't work. Economically, I agree that an extra $50 is not a problem. But I think there will be a *huge* difference in keyboard quality between my ThinkPad T40 and any low priced Chromebook.

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Marked as [Not Junk] by zenbi@pipedot.org on 2015-04-19 07:31