Google Pixelbook – A High Performance Chromebook • Hacker News Board

Interesting that there is no reference to targeting developers/coding at all for this device. Seems targeted at creatives with the Pen and Lightroom/etc on it. Other than that, none of the example apps it can support seem to me to really require "high performance" at all.

Which is too bad, because it's a pretty device. Just seems like it's in a weird uncanny valley where it's probably way too much horsepower for most of those apps (documents, instagram, etc) and way too inflexible for true high performance stuff (coding, 3d modeling, video/photoshop stuff, etc) because you can't install anything.

Re: Google Pixelbook – A High Performance Chromebook

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Post by pibefision » Wed, Oct 04, 2017, 5:56 PM UTC

In 6 months it could be obsolete, like any other Nexus phones.

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Post by malkia » Wed, Oct 04, 2017, 5:56 PM UTC

Will it run crouton? That's all I need :) (oh, and proper "xorg", because "xiwi" is not as fast).

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Post by Jerry2 » Wed, Oct 04, 2017, 5:57 PM UTC

>Pixelbook

They now have the same branding as Apple's Macbook.

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Post by Twirrim » Wed, Oct 04, 2017, 5:57 PM UTC

dabockster wrote: post #3

horsecaptin wrote: post #2

What sort of privacy guarantees come with a Google Device?

Absolutely none. Source: Ran a Nexus 5 for a few years and found out about Google Location History after I traded it in for an iPhone.

Oh, you mean just like the iPhone does too?

http://www.iclarified.com/36198/how-to-view-the-location-his...

FWIW, you can disable location tracking on Android phones too.

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Post by zitterbewegung » Wed, Oct 04, 2017, 5:58 PM UTC

I'm not sure why Google tries to make a really expensive version of their Chromebooks . If this came out before the new iPad Pro's and Surface laptops it might be compelling to buy. But, if I want a walled garden experience I would choose an iPad Pro. And if I want a real keyboard with a stylus there is the Surface Book and many others. It is even competing with the lower end Chromebooks due to the price.

It would be a great laptop for someone that likes Linux but then you are probably going to overwrite ChromeOS with whatever you want.

EDIT: Meant to say Surface laptop not surface book.