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Re: Googlebook

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Post by Topfi »

I have a hard time seeing how any Chromebook above $ 349,- could still survive in an post-MacBook Neo age.

Say what you want, a cheap Windows laptop at least has an edge on obscure software compatibility over MacOS and a notebook running any modern Linux distro gets the luxury of user control. ChromeOS meanwhile has neither. Paying more for worst in class software compatibility inferior build quality, design and restrictive lock-in sounds about as appealing as a chicken tartare from the value bin.

Prior to (again) getting a MacBook Pro, I wanted to make a high end Laptop (ASUS ProArt P16, about € 3500,- back then) work with Fedora, but purely on a basis of build quality and input feel, it was unusably poor. That trackpad deserves a place in hell and if that (or likely a worse one given cost cutting) is what the Asus and Acer models get, competing with the Neo is a cruel joke.

HP and especially Lenovo fare better, I can at least live with those though a Neos input is nicer if we compare their current devices at the same price, so unless Google is willing to heavily subsidise a brand that, let's be honest, is unlikely to garner any loyalty, I can't see them being overly competitive either, given the software limits of ChromeOS.

Re: Googlebook

#122

Post by satyamkapoor »

kommunicate wrote: post #90

I will never buy another google hardware product again after my most recent pixel experience. I was sent a phone with a defective modem that they refused to replace. This is despite having bought 5 other pixels and also using google fi and a bunch of other google products. I will never trust them with a hardware purchase ever again.

I bought a skagen with google watch os or whatever was it called. The experience was so so bad, I’m never going back to Google products.

Re: Googlebook

#123

Post by AntonyGarand »

adamtaylor_13 wrote: post #100

I cannot think of a product I'd like to own less than a machine fully-integrated with Google. And I'm not some "never Google" guy—my company's entire email infrastructure lives on Google. It's a necessary evil for us. But... Google owning my hardware? This feels so out of left field. I must not be the target audience.

I assume you don't use a google pixel phone?

This seems like their pixel experience but on a laptop.

I'm not sure I'm their target audience, but if it can be a macbook neo quality device with chromebook, I can see a market for it.

Re: Googlebook

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Post by entropicdrifter »

varenc wrote: post #62
achow wrote: post #27

Google seems to have made an official post on Reddit describing the feature set in detail: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1tb8xls/introducin... [Edit] And, the feature set references the 'AI mouse pointer' from this Deepmind blog.. https://deepmind.google/blog/ai-pointer/

Looks like their Reddit post has a formatting error? ...as computing shifts from operating systems [to intelligence systems](TKTK)... `[text](link)` is the syntax used to create a link. But since `TKTK` isn't a valid URI, it doesn't render a link. My guess is TKTK is placeholder and they were supposed to fill it in before posting on reddit... but forgot? edit: hah, maybe someone from Google saw my comment. This has n…

Looks like the link got fixed.

I'm really enjoying reddit just completely roasting the entire concept in the comments.

Re: Googlebook

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Post by zorked »

wvenable wrote: post #76
jerojero wrote: post #14

I think if I wanted a cheap laptop I'd probably get the macbook neo, and if i wanted a non-gaming expensive one i'd get a macbook pro. I really don't see the market fit for this, I guess the android integration. But my god, I'd die of cringe if someone asked me about my laptop and I had to say "googlebook". Believe it or not, these things matter a lot, particularly if you're trying to target a young audience.

I thought Microsoft had the market cornered on terrible product naming but "Googlebook" is extremely awful. My suggestion, if they really want to go this route, is to shorten it to "gBook".

I am old enough to remember that iPad was supposed to be a product-line-dooming bad name.

Re: Googlebook

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Post by syntaxing »

Competition is always good. I got a Mac Neo recently to supplement my larger 16” MBP and they really nailed it. It’s the perfect laptop for kids and travel. Most importantly it feels like it’ll last for a decade like my MBP. I hope it’s the same for googlebooks but even pixels have issues with surviving beyond 5 years.

Re: Googlebook

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Post by deckar01 »

achow wrote: post #27

Google seems to have made an official post on Reddit describing the feature set in detail: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1tb8xls/introducin... [Edit] And, the feature set references the 'AI mouse pointer' from this Deepmind blog.. https://deepmind.google/blog/ai-pointer/

Wiggling the mouse is what people do involuntarily when the computer isn’t working right. They are setting themselves up for Gemini to be the uninvited Clippy, except this will send everything you are working on to Google to harvest data from.

Re: Googlebook

#129

Post by luxuryballs »

I can’t really tell who this is for, no specs even listed that I can find, at first I thought it was going to be for running local models based on the copy but after a moment of sobriety and knowing Google clearly this is just a consumer device that they will fail to support in a couple years.

Re: Googlebook

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Post by beemboy »

jerojero wrote: post #14

I think if I wanted a cheap laptop I'd probably get the macbook neo, and if i wanted a non-gaming expensive one i'd get a macbook pro. I really don't see the market fit for this, I guess the android integration. But my god, I'd die of cringe if someone asked me about my laptop and I had to say "googlebook". Believe it or not, these things matter a lot, particularly if you're trying to target a young audience.

Gembook or Geminote would've been cooler. But no one asked me unfortunately.
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