Toby Corkindale <toby@dryft.net> writes:
Still stinging from losing a few hundred dollars on the dud ultrabook, I bought a $199 new C720 chromebook -- but one of the Haswell-based ones, not ARM. After entering into developer mode on the chromebook, one can enable a legacy BIOS boot mode, at which point it's trivial to install a regular Linux distro via bootable USB stick.
I had a look at these, and all the datasheets and reviews say SSD, but I don't believe them -- an eMMC would be more likely, and would still be marketed as "solid state". Can you confirm the onboard storage really is an SSD? Is it soldered to the mainboard? (I'm getting a C720 while I wait for a EFI64 Bay Trail transformer, but not for a week, and I'm curious because my TF101's eMMC is really getting on my nerves.)