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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.
$1,299 16 GB RAM, 64GB SSD
I'm not sure why this is better than the cheapest macbook air?Similar battery life, similar processor. 4gb more memory, smaller hard drive. And the cheapest pixel is $100 more. What do I get for that $100? For me the downsides are: can only use apps from the chrome web store, no unix command line (maybe it exists and I don't know?). I'm really happy someone is trying to compete, but not sure why I would buy this.
The screen is significantly better, and is touch-capable. You cannot get such a good screen from Apple, even on a $3000 MacbookPro.
I'm not sure why this is better than the cheapest macbook air?Similar battery life, similar processor. 4gb more memory, smaller hard drive. And the cheapest pixel is $100 more. What do I get for that $100? For me the downsides are: can only use apps from the chrome web store, no unix command line (maybe it exists and I don't know?). I'm really happy someone is trying to compete, but not sure why I would buy this.
Jesus, 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.
The whole point of a chromebook is that the storage is in the cloud. I was surprised they offered so much storage.
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To be fair, you're not running VMWare on the Pixel either (i don't think?). I'm skeptical that it is even a problem for just about anything you can actually run on the OS. It's a Chromebook afterall, running disk-utilizing programs is not it's design speciality. Sure, you could dump Linux on it - but i'm not sure how many would choose a Pixel over some other highend brands for a Linux machine. I believe the disk is m…
Surely a majority of people buying this won't be running the actual Chromebook system on it? What application can you even run on that system that would use 8GiB of RAM and an i5? And last I checked, you couldn't even run Skype on it, so I mean I just come up pretty much empty for the set of people willing to run Chromebook the OS and buy a 1k machine to do it. Since Chromebook is Linux under the hood, they'll presum…
"Chromebook" is the hardware device. ChromeOS is the operating system.
> What application can you even run on that system that would use 8GiB of RAM and an i5?
Is there an upper limit to the RAM or CPU a browser-based application can use?
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That's great, but even at 1GBit over Google Fiber that has still less bandwidth than an actual SSD. And of course the most important part of why you use an SSD in the first place is latency, where cloud storage is significantly slower than 1995 spinning platter hard disks. So even if I accept that the storage is in the cloud , it doesn't make sense since the hardware is clearly not there, but the software isn't eithe…
can you use VMWare on a chromebook?
> What's in the box: Chromebook Pixel; Universal Type-C Charger, 60W; Quick Start Guide So the new MacBook isn't the only USB-powered notebook anymore. It does, however, appear to have two type C ports, along with two type A ports (USB 3.0), headphone, and SD card. The type C port also supports display out (up to 4K). It also has a "regular" processor (Intel® Core™ i5 Processor, 2.2GHz or Intel® Core™ i7 processor, 2…
USB Powered Laptop was first by HP Chromebook 11. http://www8.hp.com/us/en/ads/chromebooks/overview.html
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Well, you just store all your data on the NSA cloud from your NSA terminal. To your point about he MacBook one port. They do offer a rather smart "splitter" dongle at $60-$90 that allows you to charge while I/Oing other data when that uncommon scenario uncommonly arises. I just don't get the whole Google approach. They think far higher of their "OS" than is warranted. They should have been selling this thing as a los…
If it had 256GB and Ubunutu it would be the Linux Macbook we need. A large portion of buyers will almost certainly be trying to run GNU/Linux on it anyway.
The problem is that the Pixel as a Chromebook fits in really well with Google's larger business model.