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You're likely being downvoted because your criticism shows no understanding of the market segment this product is aimed at.
You mean the market segment that is not technical enough to understand specs like HN'ers can? Note that my comment was more about the way it was presented rather than a complaint that it is slow.
>It would be better if Samsung and Google could low the price a little bit.
That is what I wrote months ago.
http://www.garron.me/linux/chrome-os-chromebook-ready-prime-...
The price is too high for what this thing is capable of.
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http://www.apple.com/ vs http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/ http://www.apple.com/iphone/ vs https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebox.html I'd say Google's doing a better job.
The two products are incomparable. One is unknown, the other is known by pretty much anyone who would be interested in buying a smart phone.
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http://www.apple.com/ vs http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/ http://www.apple.com/iphone/ vs https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebox.html I'd say Google's doing a better job.
Not sure how that's obvious from your links. It'd be helpful if you gave some explanation.
Hope that helps?
I used the Chromebook I got from Google I/O for a while. You have to understand that it's not designed to be a hacker's computer or even really a consumer device. It's designed to be a cheap, low-maintenance terminal for generic business computing. This is the new 3270. I actually think it's a pretty good product for that purpose. The economics are compelling if you maintain hundreds of desktops. Instead of PC + Wind…
> PC + Windows + Office + McAffee + a large desktop support organization, you just have ChromeOS devices and Google Apps I think if you put a Chromebook/Chromebox in front of most business users, the organization has to be using Citrix. Google Apps is not even remotely viable as a replacement for Office except in cost or for very basic work.
The big challenge with business users are that they have established workflows and habits. Converting an existing Office-based infrastructure to Google Apps is a struggle mostly because it's expensive and difficult to retrain workers. On the other hand, if you start off with Google Apps, it works pretty well.
Certainly every now and then you have The Giant Spreadsheet Of Doom to maintain cost models or whatnot; this is more like custom application software that only a handful of users use. Give them Excel if they need it. There aren't many of these employees even in a large organization.
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Can an admin or somebody fix this comment? It's breaking the page layout.
Right-click on the comment, choose "Inspect Element", and delete it.
And of course the same could be done with any modern browser's inspector.
This is a terrible page and the product manager of this thing should be ashamed. The inmates are truly running the asylum. The technical specs are completely irrelevant to the interests of the majority of consumers. This page needs to show what this is capable of without the foreknowledge of what Chrome OS is or is capable of or what Googles other offerings are. Sell me a story! Tell me why my life is going to be bet…
Exactly, this is why I always tell people that if you let technical people run companies you'll run into huge failures like you see with companies like Google and Facebook.
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I don't know, what if they need to edit a report with a company template someone made in Word? There are full fledged PC for sale at less than that price. Salespeople are often on the move and would probably use a netbook I think.
How do businesses currently share Word docs? They either email them around or put them in a shared folder. And when that happens, and the ChromeBox user clicks it, GMail or Google Drive will happily open that Word doc in Google Apps.
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That's seriously underpowered. My phone holds more than that and considering the expectation that they've set (not mentioning cloud storage at all) horribly low for what looks like a home computer.
Its also about half the "price" of a smartphone.
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Can an admin or somebody fix this comment? It's breaking the page layout.
Just a tip for those who aren't web devs: the page layout can be fixed by removing the comment/element via Chrome's inspector. Right-click on the comment, choose "Inspect Element", and delete it. And of course the same could be done with any modern browser's inspector.