"Speed has been a core tenet of Chrome and Chromebooks since the beginning"
Too bad the OS is seemingly always tied to low end - dog slow hardware.
The Chromebook Pixel
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I use the Secure Shell extension to ssh onto a dev environment and use vim from there. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhec...
So I have to buy another machine to develop and test my stuff on? What's the point of a powerful laptop if it's just a dumb terminal to connect to my actual development machine? Why not just buy a $300 super cheap laptop and do the exact same thing? Sure I'll have less resolution on the machine, but seeing as the developing is happening on another machine all together, it seems like the performance would be similar.
I agree with you totally. Google glass, Chromebook, etc are all just vanity products... not even the vanity of the users, but of google.
The one exception I would have to your statement is that in my own experience, my friend gave me a good deal on a huge monitor, and I am able to fit a large number of terminals open at the same on it and it's working out very well for me.
At work I have two small monitors, but at home I have the one big one and I like it at home much better. YMMV.
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>And yet ChromeOS can't do any of these things. Am I just imagining all the posts I've seen on HN from people talking about being extremely happy using Chromebooks as development platforms?
How do you develop on this? I'm used to using Linux, command line, text editors, local installs of the product I'm developing for, virtual machines, etc... Are you simply forced into using ALL websites to actually develop and unable to use anything else? Seems strange to pay $1250+ to develop on a machine that cannot even run or test the code you write.
You could put the original Chromebooks in Dev mode and have a terminal with a build environment, or just install your own Linux build on it. Or even Windows. Not the fastest machine in the world, but not the slowest either. I quite liked it. This feels wildly overpriced to me though.
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They also provide "One terabyte of Google Drive cloud storage, free for 3 years"
I don't have to start paying a monthly charge on my HD to access my stuff after 3 years....
Instead you get to get to copy it over to your new machine, or forget and lose it. Convenience costs money.
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#215Personally, I wish you could get one without the touchscreen. I understand people like touchscreens on tablets but I don't see the need for it on a laptop.
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#218Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you develop on this? I'm used to using Linux, command line, text editors, local installs of the product I'm developing for, virtual machines, etc... Are you simply forced into using ALL websites to actually develop and unable to use anything else? Seems strange to pay $1250+ to develop on a machine that cannot even run or test the code you write.
Action.IO... Cloud9... Koding...
I spent some time with cloud9 convincing myself it was usable and bought a chromebook only to find that aswell as chromeos being a massive let down c9 ran like a dog on it. Main thing is it was ridiculously slow, the same actions taking noticably long on the chromebook compare to my laptop.
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They also provide "One terabyte of Google Drive cloud storage, free for 3 years"
I don't have to start paying a monthly charge on my HD to access my stuff after 3 years....
But you very well might be replacing that hard drive after 3 years when it fails.
Re: The Chromebook Pixel
#220Google, stop trying to make ChromeOS happen, it's not going to happen.