How useful is a ChromeOS?
Can you use it yet to develop either ChromeOS apps Chromium itself? Can you use it develop Android apps or Android itself?
2015 Chromebook Pixel
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Re: 2015 Chromebook Pixel
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Would be very interested to see how well Ubuntu runs on this. As a once die-hard Apple fan I'm so sick of the mess that is Mac OS X Yosemite that I'm willing to abandon Apple and try a Linux laptop, but only if: 1) The wifi and sound work out of the box 2) Battery life is better than 2hrs 3) Suspend/resume works
Toshiba R30-ASMBN22 I have mine configured with: 256GB SSD 2TB HDD MATTE 1080p screen 16GB ram 802.11ac 2x2 wifi has lenovo-like nub mouse cost me less than 1500 runs windows 7, linux mint, and OSX battery life browsing web at medium brightness over wifi is over 10 hours in windows, 8 in linux, 7 in OSX
A matte display is essential for a developer (imho) so the Pixel is a non-starter.
Re: 2015 Chromebook Pixel
#283Jesus, 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 thought this years XPS 13 from Dell looked really slick. When it comes out in Sputnik mode it will definitely be the Linux notebook of the year.
"Sputnik mode"?
Re: 2015 Chromebook Pixel
#284Jesus, 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.
Neither Apple nor Google, when designing these ultrabooks, really seem to consider 'usability' a top priority in the way the typical HN user would define the term. They seem like fashion accessories first, brand adverts second, and general purpose computers... somewhere further down. Of course i'm one of those cranky old dinosaurs who likes cords and ports and who doesn't particularly like 'the cloud' so obviously it…
Is there such a thing like a "general purpose computer" anymore?
My computers need to be light. I don't need a powerful CPU and, since I run small VMs, not a lot of memory. With containers, the needs are even more spartan. What I do need is a good battery, screen and keyboard.
Were I running simulations over large datasets, I would prioritize a large amounts of memory, fast CPUs and the fastest GPUs I could lay my hands on. And a fast network so I could move the datasets easily. My general purpose computer would have Xeons (E7s and Phis), Nvidia GPUs and Infiniband interconnects across multiple chassis.
My mom needs a keyboard, a mouse and a screen. And a browser. And that's about it.
Re: 2015 Chromebook Pixel
#285Nice work Google. It has two 2 USB Type-C (vs 1 on the new Macbook) and 2 USB 3.0 ports. This is the way to introduce USB-C and provide practical value to the customer (vs selling $79 adapters).
Yup, and if it had 5 ports value vould be five times as much, right?
For some value is not in the ports.
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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?
The newer versions of VMware are html based instead of using the thick client. Managing them and accessing the console should work in theory. Also the Citrix receiver and Remote Desktop clients both work well on the newer chromebooks. If you mean running vms I would consider a more powerful machine with more ram and a supported operating system.
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#287I don't get it anymore... 8-16 GB RAM for what? I have not used Chromebook. Do you all use it for gaming? For serious computation? with only 32-64 GB SSD? For this price, it would be nice to be able to upgrade SSD though. Then I will also want to install a Linux distro or Windows on it.
> I don't get it anymore... 8-16 GB RAM for what?
So they can run our online 3D modeling and rendering webapp: https://Clara.io ;)
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A 2560x1700 resolution screen instead of a 1440x900 resolution screen
Doesn't the new Macbook come in 2304 * 1440?
The new Macbook is not a Macbook Air. The post I was replying to was specifically talking about Macbook Air. All its comparisons were with the $899 existing Macbook Air not the new Macbook.
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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…
For all of Apple's focus on "simplicity" and "elegance" in design and whatnot, the company sure makes you carry a shitload of ugly dongles and extra cables and adapters along with your iDevices. Wouldn't they be more elegant if they would, you know...Just Work?!
During my day to day use, the only time I plug in to anything is when I sit at my desk, power, Thunderbolt and HDMI to get a glorious three display setup out of my MBPr.
That being said, when I am in meetings, or on the move for work, I don't carry dongles with me. Pure laptop for me. All of our meeting spaces have Airplay compatible projectors, so I sit down, make sure I am on wifi and connect to the display.
Transferring large files? We've got 1 Gbit to our desks, I can sling data from our Denver location to our St. Louis location at almost 300 Mbit/sec sustained. Also, wireless N/AC throughout the building.
In the world where you no longer NEED those ports, having a smaller lighter laptop makes all the difference. I already don't carry dongles with me, the new laptop with less ports wouldn't change that.
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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.
Same here in Canada. Apple do that better.