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The SSD is soldered to the MB. Neither piece is user serviceable. This was mentioned in the comments of a googler g+ post showing off crouton the day of the announcement by the author.
That was for the Samsung ARM chromebook, not the new Chromebook Pixel, which has an Intel i5 processor. I bet it is just as replaceable as the Macbook Air's internals (e.g. replaceable, but you need one of the small SSD-sticks)
OK, I need a portable dev machine. I thought about installing Ubuntu on my old 2008 Macbook Air (1,1), but the Ubuntu page itself says that it's a painful install. How good would a chromebook be for, say, developing a small rails app?
It boggles my mind that Google isn't making Chrome OS more developer-friendly. If they could bring developers on board, they'd have a good beachhead for taking over the desktop market. They should enable us to build privileged native applications that use the DOM for their user interface but have unfettered access to the underlying OS just like any other application would.
It boggles my mind that Google isn't making Chrome OS more developer-friendly. If they could bring developers on board, they'd have a good beachhead for taking over the desktop market. They should enable us to build privileged native applications that use the DOM for their user interface but have unfettered access to the underlying OS just like any other application would.
It's probably not as powerful as you want but it already can do quite a lot.
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Cheapest 13" rMBP has: - faster CPU (i5 2.5 vs 1.8 GHz) - double the RAM (8 vs 4 GB) - bigger HD (as you say) - wider aspect ratio (Pixel has 100 extra pixels along the bottom in an overall smaller package) - a bit higher (1.9 vs 1.6 cm) - a bit heavier (1.62 vs 1.52 kg) - bigger battery and runtime (74 vs 59Wh, reportedly 7 vs 5 hours) Overall, a lot to be said for the rMBP. Good to have options.
The MacBook Pro also has: - Thunderbolt - USB 3.0 - Bluetooth 4.0 - Optical In/Out - MagSafe - Better Trackpad Not to mention a company with a history of great support. There really isn't any good reason to buy a Pixel.
MagSafe is a big draw though, arguably as important as almost anything else. Comparing the screen on my MBA to the screen in the new Dell Developer laptop with IPS is a bummer though.
In all honesty, I've never even seen a USB3.0 device in the wild either. Not an argument against the option, of course.
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To run crouton you need to put your machine into developer mode though, which could mean that all bets are off. (e.g. if you power it off, it comes back up without requiring a password, since this is annoying/unnecessary if you're actually developing for Chrome OS.)
Uh, no. I have had my Samsung ARM chromebook in developer mode since day one, and I always need to put in my Google password to log in, even if you are not connected to a network.
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The MacBook Pro also has: - Thunderbolt - USB 3.0 - Bluetooth 4.0 - Optical In/Out - MagSafe - Better Trackpad Not to mention a company with a history of great support. There really isn't any good reason to buy a Pixel.
Unless you can't stand OS X. Also the "Better Trackpad" is arguable. And I'll take the Pixel's screen. MagSafe is a big draw though, arguably as important as almost anything else. Comparing the screen on my MBA to the screen in the new Dell Developer laptop with IPS is a bummer though. In all honesty, I've never even seen a USB3.0 device in the wild either. Not an argument against the option, of course.
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Unless you can't stand OS X. Also the "Better Trackpad" is arguable. And I'll take the Pixel's screen. MagSafe is a big draw though, arguably as important as almost anything else. Comparing the screen on my MBA to the screen in the new Dell Developer laptop with IPS is a bummer though. In all honesty, I've never even seen a USB3.0 device in the wild either. Not an argument against the option, of course.
Is there anything to stop you from installing Linux or Windows on a macbook?
edit: Actually, hotplug Thunderbolt is touchy in Linux 3.8 because Apple's thunderbolt implementation is back-ass-ward stupid, but that's not really a biggie, I don't use Thunderbolt for anything really (the display out is fine)
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Uh, no. I have had my Samsung ARM chromebook in developer mode since day one, and I always need to put in my Google password to log in, even if you are not connected to a network.
Same here, not sure what mjs is talking about.