After digging around the store and url jumping, it looks like Google no longer sells the Nexus 5 nor 7 anymore. Interesting...
2015 Chromebook Pixel
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Re: 2015 Chromebook Pixel
#142I'm sure it's a fantastic machine, I just can't understand what niche this is aiming for... there seems to me to be a better alternative to this machine for anybody... Chrome OS developers?
I recently bought a ChromeBook for development (The $199 one). It's a super light linux machine that lasts for days. So I have all my dev tools and I can easily work on any git repo. I don't do any Chrome OS development.
I tried using a tablet for this, but as an emacs users, I have very specific keyboard bindings that the tablets always had issues with.
Re: 2015 Chromebook Pixel
#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
> You can install linux on it. I own the previous version of the Pixel and I run ubuntu on it and its close to perfect. Yeah, just like buying a Windows laptop to install Linux, meaning using the laptop for another purpose than it is being sold for.
I get what you're saying, but I feel like the example you're providing is off. When people buy a laptop, the major selling point isn't that it runs Windows, it's typically the hardware in it. It just happens to come with Windows because that's what most people use. A major selling point of the Chromebook is that it runs Chrome OS, so in this case yeah installing Linux on it kind of defeats the purpose of buying a Chr…
The major selling point is that it runs Windows which runs the software and games they want, and their old data. Try offering one with BeOS or even Linux and see how many you sell.
Re: 2015 Chromebook Pixel
#144A source that circumvents Google's decision to prevent non-US people from even reading about the device: http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/11/8190513/chromebook-pixel-2...
This URL works from Germany: http://www.google.com/chromebook/pixel/
I can see the page from Germany, but the "BUY NOW" button
gives me a 404 page in German:
Die angeforderte URL wurde auf diesem Server nicht
gefunden. Weitere Informationen liegen nicht vor.Re: 2015 Chromebook Pixel
#145Can it run Ubuntu? That is the first thing I would do to it.
I've done it with Acer C720 with i3 processor. Initially got it as a portable light machine used for travel. But now it kind of became my default. I used to lug around my trusty old Thinkpad T60.
Re: 2015 Chromebook Pixel
#146FYI the time-lapse movie playing on the screen is TimeScapes (http://timescapes.org/), which is fascinating on big HD screens.
Re: 2015 Chromebook Pixel
#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can install linux on it. I own the previous version of the Pixel and I run ubuntu on it and its close to perfect. Two things I would change are 1. Improve thermal cooling or move to a underpowered cpu. I have worked around it by rate limiting my CPU to not go over 800 MHz. With a few tweaks, it sips ~8.8W and gives me > 6 hrs of battery life. 2. Make the hinge a bit stiffer. My only other complaint is that it ref…
Did you get touch features working on your older Pixel? I'm very curious about whether the Pixel series would be a good machine for Ubuntu .. care to share your experiences?
It should be possible to get working. All the drivers are in the chromiumos source repository. Until very recently X was used, so the X server should have the touch support. (Haven't tested on the new Pixel because I don't have one, but the old one, definitely.)
The kernel drivers are in src/third_party/kernel/v3.10 for first-gen pixel, and v3.14 for this one. If you're going to run your own Linux, I'd use that kernel rather than the one the distro provides. Or figure out what patches are different between the two, and cherry-pick those onto your distro's kernel.
Re: 2015 Chromebook Pixel
#148Jesus, designing a usable ultrabook must be very difficult.
We have one contender from California, but their ideology has them offer just a single USB-C port. Now we get the competitor from Mountain View, who have rightly recognized the need for more than one fucking port when that's how you charge the damn thing, and what do they decide?
Oh yeah, we'll top out storage at 64GiB.
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I hope so. If they haven't locked the bootloader down on this one I'll be buying one.
The bootloader has never been locked on any ChromeOS device.
Sorry if I've misunderstood. When I read passages like this[0]:
> Installing Ubuntu is not easy , either. By default the bootloader of Chromebooks are signed and locked.
I assume that the writer is correct.
[0]: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/10/ubuntu-12-04-up-and-runni...
Re: 2015 Chromebook Pixel
#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
At least the MacBook is a real computer, not a browser on steroids.
Yet many people use their MacBooks as a browser on steroids. Those people are the target audience of the Chromebook.
The "audience" or market for the Pixel are Googlers - hardly folks looking for a browser on steroids. Although that being said, I'm not sure "browser on steroids" is exactly a knock given what you can accomplish these days.