The thing this doesn't explain is what you need the performance for on a chomebook....
Google Pixelbook – A High Performance Chromebook
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#22As a fan of my Chromebook Plus ... I'm kinda lost on what more you do at that price / performance other than being able to multitask a few more apps and tabs.
It's not like there is much in the way of high performance demanding applications on ChromeOS.
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#24My initial observations: * 12.4" 2400x1600 (235 ppi) is great * Battery life looks good at "up to 10 hours" * 4 Mics for noise cancelling is interesting * $99 for the pressure sensitive Pixelbook Pen seems steep * Core i5 options ship in 3-4 weeks * Core i7/16GB/512 SSD option puts you on a waitlist * Fully spec'd out: i7, Pen, and Preferred Care is $1997 * Why only two USB-C ports?!
My initial observations:
* bezel
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Android phones send your location history to Google. iPhone location history stays on the phone. That's the key difference.
This exactly. Android phones can't do a thing without connecting to some privacy-invading cloud service.
And yeah, I've tried Replikant. Nice proof of concept, but not usable.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Android phones send your location history to Google. iPhone location history stays on the phone. That's the key difference.
> iPhone location history stays on the phone.
Not if you take photos and use iCloud.
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#27I'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…
They need hardware to give to google interns.
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#28>Pixelbook They now have the same branding as Apple's Macbook.
This seems like a successor to the Google Pixel [1] whose name was eclipsed by the Google Pixel smartphone.
[1] See here: https://www.amazon.com/Google-Chromebook-Laptop-Screen-Proce...
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#29In 6 months it could be obsolete, like any other Nexus phones.
I put galliumos (ubuntu with some tweaks for the hardware) on the last google chromebook pixel i5 and I've been using it since release. It's solid hardware, just like this one.
However, I don't think I would get another since the keyboard not having proper function keys gets pretty annoying.
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#30As a fan of my Chromebook Plus ... I'm kinda lost on what more you do at that price / performance other than being able to multitask a few more apps and tabs. It's not like there is much in the way of high performance demanding applications on ChromeOS.
Either these apps are already predicted to arrive or google will make sure they do. I can't see why Google would want people to do computing on their own machines though.
This looks a lot like an attempt to grab some would be MacBook buyers that are unhappy with the latest models.