I bought a used Dell 3010 Chromebox. It came with 2gb of RAM. The CPU is the Intel Celeron 2955U and it had a 16gb SSD.
I had been using an old Dell 1545 laptop with CloudReady loaded. The old laptop had 4gb of ram, an Intel Core 2 Duo T9500 CPU and 120gb SSD drive. After now using a real Chrome OS system on the Chromebox, I can say that the CloudReady experience is very very similar to the genuine Chrome OS system.
In using the Dell Chromebox, there seemed to be some lags between clicking on a link and display of the webpage.
The Chromebox, with 2gb of RAM, seem to hesitate when starting new operations.
I added another 2gb of RAM to the empty second RAM slot. The Chromebox now has 4gb of RAM. The upgraded Chromebox seems much faster and more responsive. I would recommend upping any Chrome OS system that is upgradeable to at least 4gb of RAM.
Yesterday I learnd about a Chrome utility called "SYSTEM". I loaded it from the Chrome store.
The SYSTEM utility shows RAM usage.
When I open several tabs (2 to 4), the Chrome OS system is using 3gb to 3.5gb with available RAM at 1gb or 0.5gb.
So it appears that a Chromebook/Chromebox needs more than 2gb or will use more than 2gb for simple tasks.
I have ordered a 4gb SODIMM and will see if the RAM usage goes up with 6gb of available RAM (a 2gb SODIMM and a 4gb SODIMM).
I had been using an old Dell 1545 laptop with CloudReady loaded. The old laptop had 4gb of ram, an Intel Core 2 Duo T9500 CPU and 120gb SSD drive. After now using a real Chrome OS system on the Chromebox, I can say that the CloudReady experience is very very similar to the genuine Chrome OS system.
In using the Dell Chromebox, there seemed to be some lags between clicking on a link and display of the webpage.
The Chromebox, with 2gb of RAM, seem to hesitate when starting new operations.
I added another 2gb of RAM to the empty second RAM slot. The Chromebox now has 4gb of RAM. The upgraded Chromebox seems much faster and more responsive. I would recommend upping any Chrome OS system that is upgradeable to at least 4gb of RAM.
Yesterday I learnd about a Chrome utility called "SYSTEM". I loaded it from the Chrome store.
The SYSTEM utility shows RAM usage.
When I open several tabs (2 to 4), the Chrome OS system is using 3gb to 3.5gb with available RAM at 1gb or 0.5gb.
So it appears that a Chromebook/Chromebox needs more than 2gb or will use more than 2gb for simple tasks.
I have ordered a 4gb SODIMM and will see if the RAM usage goes up with 6gb of available RAM (a 2gb SODIMM and a 4gb SODIMM).
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