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The Chromebook Pixel (2015) Review

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Re: The Chromebook Pixel (2015) Review

#51
The Pixel is weird. It'd be a nice laptop if it had a decent amount of storage (I'd be fine with 128GB - My MBA has that much and it can hold every personal project I've ever had, plus my entire music collection - but some would prefer 256 of 512), and a proper keyboard layout (no Super? no Caps Lock?!).

But without those things, it's an overpriced netbook with a CPU far too powerful.

Re: The Chromebook Pixel (2015) Review

#52

$1299 for 64gb ssd ? I wish it had atleast 500gb ssd :(

This! Yes, it is a "netbook," but 64gb is becoming my minimum requirement for a mobile phone. Even a 128gb option would be appreciated.

Genuinely curious. How do you occupy all of that space on a phone? I've had my 8GB nexus 4 for almost two years, and I'm just now hitting space limitations.

Re: The Chromebook Pixel (2015) Review

#53
Does anyone know if they fixed the bug in the original Pixel where if the battery died (or just got too low!) it'd lose the dev mode setting?

That was my main complaint with the original Pixel - I was running Debian on it as my main machine, but after that happening for the 5th time at a conference and having to reinstall...

Re: The Chromebook Pixel (2015) Review

#54
I just ordered the LS model because it's what I wanted the new MacBook to be. Good build quality, decent processor, 12", HiDPI display, more than one port, and 12 hours of battery life. I fully intend to install ubuntu the second I get it and boot off that for the life of the machine. My hope is that for everything but vector/raster editing it can replace my 15" MacBook Pro for daily Python dev work.

Re: The Chromebook Pixel (2015) Review

#55
I am in the market for a Linux developer's laptop. It looks like the System76 laptops have this beat.

Gazelle Professional: 15.6" matte display 2.8 Ghz quad core i7 16 GB RAM 250 GB SSD Wireless AC Price as configured above: $1477

The Pixel might have it beat in weight and battery life, but that's about it.

Re: The Chromebook Pixel (2015) Review

#56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This! Yes, it is a "netbook," but 64gb is becoming my minimum requirement for a mobile phone. Even a 128gb option would be appreciated.

Genuinely curious. How do you occupy all of that space on a phone? I've had my 8GB nexus 4 for almost two years, and I'm just now hitting space limitations.

Mostly photos and videos of my kids and their activities and whatnot. I do auto-backup all of it, but I like having it local on the device. Music and other media/content I try to keep and access solely from the cloud, but I like having all the personal media locally. I've been using a 32GB Moto X for a little over a year and am already getting close to the limit. I would imagine as these devices become more and more of a primary computing device for people, the space will be easier to fill up too.

Re: The Chromebook Pixel (2015) Review

#57

Does anyone know if they fixed the bug in the original Pixel where if the battery died (or just got too low!) it'd lose the dev mode setting? That was my main complaint with the original Pixel - I was running Debian on it as my main machine, but after that happening for the 5th time at a conference and having to reinstall...

Replying a bit late, so hopefully you see this.

That's not so much a bug but a known issue. The flag that you set at the command line to enable SeaBIOS is held in RAM. Which means if you lose power, that goes back to default.

To get around this, you need to disable the write-protect screw inside the device. Take a look at https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-f... for instructions on how to do this, and where the screw is.

After that, you can modify the firmware, and update the setting in NVRAM. Take a look at the Arch Chromebook wiki for the commands to use to do what you want. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Chrome_OS_devices#Boot_...

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