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Re: Chromebook

#51

Post by wiredfool »

spiffworks wrote: post #40
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.

That's not what the site seems to say:

  Chromebook that have built-in 3G include up to 100MB per month 
  of Mobile Broadband service for 2 years, provided by Verizon Wireless.

Re: Chromebook

#53

Post by tokenadult »

"* Obviously, you're going to need a wireless network, be willing to use it subject to the provider's terms and conditions, and be ready to put up with its real life limitations including, for example, its speed and availability. When you do not have network access, functionality that depends on it will not be available."

http://www.google.com/chromebook/#features

That's some very important information to put in a footnote at the bottom of the webpage. I'll have to check network availability in my most common locations before deciding whether or not this is useful for me or one of my children.

Re: Chromebook

#54

Post by jonknee »

kenjackson wrote: post #45

I can't imagine anyone buying this and being happy unless they are already intimately familiar with the device ahead of time. Too many limitations, with virtually no big upside functionality or user experience (unlike the iPad that makes up for limitations with some huge upside). As I'd mentioned before I can buy an ASUS Eee PC with an AMD C30 processor for $289 and be able to use the browser of my choice, sync my iP…

It's quite obviously not targeted at you. There are people who use computers who don't even know what Emacs or Visual Studio are. They're also the ones who have major troubles keeping their computers working. Google's working on abstracting away the IT guy. I hope it works.

Re: Chromebook

#55

Post by euroclydon »

tokenadult wrote: post #53

"* Obviously, you're going to need a wireless network, be willing to use it subject to the provider's terms and conditions, and be ready to put up with its real life limitations including, for example, its speed and availability. When you do not have network access, functionality that depends on it will not be available." http://www.google.com/chromebook/#features That's some very important information to put in a fo…

It's a little snarky sounding for corporate speak; kinda like someone at Google rolling their eyes at you.

Re: Chromebook

#56

Post by jonknee »

tokenadult wrote: post #53

"* Obviously, you're going to need a wireless network, be willing to use it subject to the provider's terms and conditions, and be ready to put up with its real life limitations including, for example, its speed and availability. When you do not have network access, functionality that depends on it will not be available." http://www.google.com/chromebook/#features That's some very important information to put in a fo…

That was the footnote for the "Always connected" header...

Re: Chromebook

#57

Post by [deleted] »

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.

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Re: Chromebook

#58

Post by va_coder »

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.

From a security perspective I think it's a big game changer. I'm looking forward to hearing about how secure it is in practice.

Re: Chromebook

#59

Post by amouat »

tokenadult wrote: post #53

"* Obviously, you're going to need a wireless network, be willing to use it subject to the provider's terms and conditions, and be ready to put up with its real life limitations including, for example, its speed and availability. When you do not have network access, functionality that depends on it will not be available." http://www.google.com/chromebook/#features That's some very important information to put in a fo…

It's a web browser - how did you expect to use it?

Re: Chromebook

#60

Post by r00fus »

wiredfool wrote: post #44
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)

It's not going to work for my kids till I can put some filtering on the web browser. They really don't need to be clicking on ads and whatnot yet.

Can't you filter at a higher leve (ie, the router or gateway?). A simple method would be to get the wifi version, NAT it through your desktop acting as gateway and put the filtering software there.

Of course, that's a kludge and easily worked around. Compared to an iPad, currently the Chromebook is harder to filter.

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