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Re: 2015 Chromebook Pixel

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Post by akhilcacharya »

revelation wrote: post #148

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.

I completely agree. This would be a killer alternative to an MBPr if an option to upgrade/purchase a 256GB SSD was available.

So close to perfect, yet so far.

Re: 2015 Chromebook Pixel

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Post by ajmarsh »

egonschiele wrote: post #172

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.

To get a shell Ctrl+Alt+T.

Re: 2015 Chromebook Pixel

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Post by EC1 »

genericuser wrote: post #229
egonschiele wrote: post #172

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.

A 2560x1700 resolution screen instead of a 1440x900 resolution screen

Doesn't the new Macbook come in 2304 * 1440?

Re: 2015 Chromebook Pixel

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Post by w0rmwood »

sspiff wrote: post #223
cdelsolar wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

because $1299 is a fortune

While many of us routinely spend this amount of money on laptops or other hardware, the average Joe doesn't want to spend more than 600-700 euro on a laptop (which translates to up to $650 in practice). So yes, for most people, this sounds like a fortune for a laptop. I think it's actually addressed half of shortcomings of the old Pixel: 4GB of memory has been upped to a reasonable 8GB or a generous 16GB. The CPU bum…

It's pretty safe to say this isn't a laptop intended for the Average Joe to purchase. They're not even aiming at that demographic, IMHO.

I do agree that making it more Linux-friendly or selling a pre-installed Linux version would be great.

Re: 2015 Chromebook Pixel

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Post by dvirsky »

EC1 wrote: post #244
egonschiele wrote: post #172

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.

I don't know a single person in real life that has a chromebook. Who is buying these?

A lot of people apparently: http://www.zdnet.com/article/top-3-holiday-computers-on-amaz...

If I were to buy a second computer for travelling and lightweight stuff at home, and not developing, I guess a Chromebook would be a nice choice. But not at the price of a Macbook Air, though.

Re: 2015 Chromebook Pixel

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Post by eertami »

ripter wrote: post #142
lytedev wrote: post #133

I'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.

Which Chromebook if you don't mind me asking?

I've been using an old Thinkpad T61 but it just seems a little bit underpowered/dated/inefficient now - considering jumping to something new.

Re: 2015 Chromebook Pixel

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Post by akhilcacharya »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #222
pbreit wrote: post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Complaining about Apple removing ports is foolhardy and pretty much always wrong.

They've done it many times before: * Original iMac (all-USB, no floppy disk drive) * MacBook Air (no CD drive) * MacBook Pro (no Ethernet) People have gotten used to it each time.

The problem isn't the new port in my opinion, the problem is you only get one of it, and its the only port that can be used for charging as well.

If it had another means of charging or another port (like, say, on the back) I wouldn't mind as much.

Re: 2015 Chromebook Pixel

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Post by ghrifter »

sspiff wrote: post #223
cdelsolar wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

because $1299 is a fortune

While many of us routinely spend this amount of money on laptops or other hardware, the average Joe doesn't want to spend more than 600-700 euro on a laptop (which translates to up to $650 in practice). So yes, for most people, this sounds like a fortune for a laptop. I think it's actually addressed half of shortcomings of the old Pixel: 4GB of memory has been upped to a reasonable 8GB or a generous 16GB. The CPU bum…

$650 dollars is about 700 euro? Well now's the time to travel to Europe!

(I suppose there is some sort of tax or import cost...?)

Re: 2015 Chromebook Pixel

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Post by EpicEng »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #173
revelation wrote: post #148

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.

What most people have missed is that USB allows charging and data over the same port. So you can easily get a power adapter that has a charging tip which has on the same cord another USB-C port (socket) which you can plug into your display chain, or port replicator or what not. In Apple's case I fully expect they will make it so that when you plug your Apple display into your laptop it also charges it since the charg…

So I have to purchase and carry around peripherals just to use my machine in anything but the most basic scenario? Not a fan.

To be clear, I am a Mac laptop user and have been for years. I love them from a build perspective, but I don't agree with the one-port-to-rule-them-all decision.

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