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Re: Chromebook

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Post by phlux »

apl wrote: post #9
phlux wrote: post #7

This is a game changer. I plan to get one for my 6 year old daughter. I have started her on Khan academy for math (I have been watching the vids myself - they are fantastic)

Not intrinsically, no. EDIT: Just for the record, before the OP edited his entry, it simply said "This is a game changer" which I consider an exaggeration. Of course, I can see how it makes for a nice children-appropriate machine, but that's not something new and exclusive to Chrome OS.

Yes, I immediately saw I needed to put some context into that statement :)

Also - this announcement I think is great, see my comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2535230 which I made last night.

The thing is that we will see a fundamental shift in how people compute in the next 18 months.

The questions are going to be very interesting relating to data security and privacy, though.

We just saw that the NSA captures the equivalent of a Library of Congress in data every 6 hours.

The amount that google will potentially capture through the chromebook system will be amazing.

They are planning other services as well that will enable these books in the long term.

The question about who will be a more valuable / viable company between facebook and google are now clearly ridiculous. Facebook will have a tough time coming anywhere near as influential as google from an infrastructure perspective alone.

Facebook will be a valuable service portal for a long time - but it will have to fundamentally shift in a big way to become a global computing infrastructure provider -- and it simply is not in its DNA -- Zuck I think the next revolution for the chromebook will be the web-app market that will be put on top of it. It will be interesting to see (and participate) in the building of the various lenses that you can view the web through on these things:

Education Lens: Like Khan Academy on Steroids

Business Lens: Business Productivity Suite

Healthcare Lens: All the EHR/PHR point of care service apps

Good times ahead.

Re: Chromebook

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Post by uniclaude »

It's a purely personal point of view, but I sincerely think that the CR-48 looked much better than both of those. If Crunchgear is right and those laptops hit the market at 350+ & 425+, I'll regret not having an address in the States back then, when Google was distributing CR-48s ! On a more serious note, I think a worldwide 3G plan would make those laptops very interesting for me.

Re: Chromebook

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Post by hammock »

It took me a long time of exploring to realize they were talking about a laptop. I was like "Chromebook?" Is it a kindle? Is it an online scrapbook? Is it online literature?

edit: why am i being downvoted? because i don't read tech blogs 24/7? because nowhere on the website does it actually say what a chromebook is?

Re: Chromebook

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Post by wiredfool »

The data service (http://www.google.com/chromebook/#features-connectivity) looks nice for people who don't do a ton of streaming. In fact, if chromeos has ssh, it would probably do for my work laptop at something better than a netbook + verizon dongle, and a whole lot cheaper. (well, I think right now it's $60/5gb, and I rarely hit that).

Re: Chromebook

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Post by nextparadigms »

I was hoping they'd also announce some ARM based notebooks, maybe with the quad core Tegra 3.Performance should at least be similar to the current notebooks, but they would be cheaper and battery would last even more.

Re: Chromebook

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Post by cryptoz »

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #26
ChuckMcM wrote: post #21

Heh, I was amused that on Firefox that Javascript that does that whole stupid "fade in" crap took longer than 8 seconds to load :-). Note to web designers, its not studly its worthless bling, please don't give in to the temptation to do that stuff. From a product perspective it does have some nice benefits for the non-techies. I'd love to get my parents something that they could carry around to read email and view pi…

Much more difficult for that to work on iPad. It takes Chrome seconds to sync everything for a particular user. Since iPad apps aren't served on demand ala web apps, you'd have to download every app belong to the guest. Much wasted hard drive space. The iPad will remain a personal device, like a phone.

I disagree, actually; it would be simple for a half-solution. A "party mode" for tablets is really really important. I love handing my Xoom around a room full of people for photos but hate that they can see my email widget on my home screen.

You don't need to immediately download another users apps. You just need to be able to quickly hide your private info.

It would be a mistake for the iPad (or Android tablets) to never get this feature.

Edit: In case it's not clear, anyone who looks at my Xoom - without even touching it - can immediately read my first three or four emails. Wonderfully convenient for personal use, terrible for privacy worries.

Re: Chromebook

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Post by spiffworks »

wiredfool wrote: post #35

The data service ( http://www.google.com/chromebook/#features-connectivity ) looks nice for people who don't do a ton of streaming. In fact, if chromeos has ssh, it would probably do for my work laptop at something better than a netbook + verizon dongle, and a whole lot cheaper. (well, I think right now it's $60/5gb, and I rarely hit that).

I think those rates only apply to the CR-48, not to the new devices announced today, because the new ones are also going to Europe, where CDMA is pretty much non-existent.
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