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This thing being blatantly aimed at the education market, Google really need to do the unthinkable and let people host their own server backends to support these devices, otherwise they're simply data sucking machines. That their own educational programming environment runs on a RaspPi and can't be hosted on a Chromebook speaks volumes. And I have a Chromebook, which I'll freely admit is brilliant for many things, bu…
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Thanks for confirming. I'm a little boggled why HP would roll out an identical product an entire year after the fact, unless HP is just that messed up internally.
There are whole companies that exist entirely on their enterprise sales. So selling their own branded laptop to their clients makes sense even if it is a year behind Samsung. Honestly, working for a business that buys enterprise devices, 1 year behind is stunningly good. Buying business Android devices with a bar code scanner there's something like a 7 year product life cycle so you get some stunningly old hardware,…
Awesome little machine but this brings up questions for me: 1. Do consumers want what is essentially a modern netbook? Didn't this market die once the iPad and tablets took hold? It would seem from recent consumer buying trends that most prefer a touch screen/tablet form factor at this price point/screen size. 2. How does this compare to an Android tablet (Nexus 10) with a high quality keyboard? Or even some of the "…
As a Pixel owner I can confirm that touch on a laptop form factor is somewhat useless. There are precious few times I want to reach out to touch something instead of using the mouse. The mouse really is a great tool. People need to stop trying to get rid of them.
Awesome little machine but this brings up questions for me: 1. Do consumers want what is essentially a modern netbook? Didn't this market die once the iPad and tablets took hold? It would seem from recent consumer buying trends that most prefer a touch screen/tablet form factor at this price point/screen size. 2. How does this compare to an Android tablet (Nexus 10) with a high quality keyboard? Or even some of the "…
As a Pixel owner I can confirm that touch on a laptop form factor is somewhat useless. There are precious few times I want to reach out to touch something instead of using the mouse. The mouse really is a great tool. People need to stop trying to get rid of them.
Ordered. I absolutely love my ARM-based Chromebook, and have wished for the same specs with a bit better construction and build quality. This is absolutely perfect for my needs, and the keyboard looks to be marginally better as well. I've hardly touched my MB Air (2012 refurb) since I got the Chromebook. Small and light enough to throw in any bag/backpack without care, cheap enough to not worry about theft. I don't m…
Does '2GB (4x 4Gbit) DDR3 RAM' mean that it can grow to 16gb of ram? Under those conditions I would seriously consider getting it and running crouton.
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Do you remember the HP touchpad fiasco? :)
In some ways I wish Mark Hurd remained HPs CEO. I think they could have really competed with webOS in the long run (be a good 3rd/4th place, making sure the Apple and Google are actually innovating and not becoming a duopoly). Then again, we would never have had the fire sale, and I would never have had the pleasure of working on the Android port to the Touchpad. I wish they kept Apotheker a bit longer... He had the…
This whole industry has always suffered from lack of viable competition. There never seems to be enough market to support third players, where we're lucky enough to even have 2 market leaders. sigh...
maybe that's true of other industries as well..
serious work=>Laptop, casual work=>tablet, ? => chromebook