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Google Pixelbook – A High Performance Chromebook

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Post by ProAm »

colecut wrote: post #288
ProAm wrote: post #253

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What version? Ive been using 2.1 it for about a year on my Acer C910 (i5) and has been flawless. It maxes at 4GB of ram which is the only bummer, but that makes the pixelbook appealing.

I was still on 1.0 I believe I loved the OS, it was as good as you can get on a chromebook, I was just commenting about the white dev-mode screen at bootup. Did they get around that now?

No, Ive never gotten that. After the firmware flash and OS install, it boots right up, sleeps and resumes perfectly, just like a normal OS. Ive actually never seen the white dev-mode screen on this on, but I started with 2.0

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Post by AlexCoventry »

victorhooi wrote: post #134
AlexCoventry wrote: post #96

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> There have been instances in the past where Google has locked the account of a user This happened to me recently (though I think for security concerns, not TOS violations), and was quite distressing. What steps can be taken to avoid this?

Yes, this is usually the more common story - Google does a lot of things to protect users (from themselves, and from external attack). I suspect a lot of people who get locked out are for fairly pedestrian reasons like password reuse across sites, and they got hijacked. It sucks, but it's better than the alternative (e.g. somebody pilfers all your email and commits identity theft). Trust me, there are a lot of bad ac…

I had 2FA via a yubikey, though.

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Post by tehwebguy »

victorhooi wrote: post #205
tehwebguy wrote: post #139

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Perhaps there was something specific about that specific instance that made it fraud, but reselling a phone isn't fraud by default. Not interested in needing to beg a horrible algorithm or become internet famous just to get ahold of a human that might turn my digital life back on.

I'm only speaking in general terms here, not specifics. However, reselling phones is usually against the ToS of pretty much every retailer. This isn't unique to Google. Here are our ToS - https://store.google.com/intl/en-US_us/about/device-terms.ht... . > You may only purchase Devices for your personal use. You may not commercially resell any Device, but you may give the Device as a gift. Recipients of gifts may need…

> In fact - Apple even introduced controls to stop scalping of Genius Bar appointments

Yeah, they prevent the purchase. That sounds reasonable. They decidedly DO NOT brick the buyer's phone, or their entire digital life, if they suspect someone bought more than the limit.

Also, even if they did, which would be just as horrible and outrageous as when Google does it, at least they have reasonable phone support and retail stores. It's not just about Google's indefensible behavior in terminating Google accounts, it's about how the company wants to be relied on for everything digital without providing even a bare minimum level of support.

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Post by tehwebguy »

8note wrote: post #227
victorhooi wrote: post #205

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I'm only speaking in general terms here, not specifics. However, reselling phones is usually against the ToS of pretty much every retailer. This isn't unique to Google. Here are our ToS - https://store.google.com/intl/en-US_us/about/device-terms.ht... . > You may only purchase Devices for your personal use. You may not commercially resell any Device, but you may give the Device as a gift. Recipients of gifts may need…

You're saying that like it's a reasonable condition. Other sellers of things don't have such conditions like, having it be against ToS to resell your car or your forks.

Agreed - I am arguing with them as if it's reasonable but it's entirely not.

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Post by 6nf »

LeifCarrotson wrote: post #211
sergiotapia wrote: post #85

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I uploaded full seasons of a very old 90s cartoon and my account is disabled. I cannot even purchase YouTube TV to try it out. Of course, reaching out to support is moot - their RoboSupport sucks. I will never purchase a Google product if I can help it and will steer clear of them in any team setting where I can affect the decision.

> my account You use the singular form of "account", which is interesting to me. Are they preventing you in some way (IP address tracking, device tracking, etc) from creating a new account? Why would you not do so? I wholeheartedly agree that a Youtube violation should not affect your other Google products, like a laptop or email account. Similarly, an Amazon problem should not affect an AWS account. But I will conce…

Their TOS prohibits making new accounts to bypass the ban. I don't know if they have automated checks to enforce this but based on the behaviour of spammers and scammers using google products, I suspect they do.

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Post by BHSPitMonkey »

uniformlyrandom wrote: post #88
rimliu wrote: post #80

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What do you think majority of the users will do with those $1k-$2k devices—desoldering storage or looking at the pictures of cats and kids? The CPU or RAM specs alone don't tell much how well the device will perform.

But who are the majority of users here? If all the developers betrayed by latest Apple's MBP lineup migrate to a new platform, suddenly 'majority' starts to care about number of cores and upgradable memory. But that is not likely to happen, given the dumbed-down specs and OS.

If I need to know the exact specs of the processor in the new Pixel laptop, my method of retrieving that information isn't going to be to pull up the 90-minute keynote presentation and skip around to the part where someone on a stage dictates it (or hope that I memorized it when I watched the keynote the first time).

I will just look up that information directly (from the product site's Tech Specs section, or Wikipedia, or one of several other sources).

Faulting a company for not making time during the keynote to include unnecessary, largely irrelevant data is silly. This isn't Intel or NVIDIA unveiling a new microprocessor architecture, it's a consumer product made for browsing the web (which happens to need a CPU/GPU as an implementation detail).

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Post by koiz »

Filligree wrote: post #186
koiz wrote: post #94

When will google learn. I don't want a search button in place of caps lock. idiots.

Um, there's a config option for that. You can set it to be Ctrl instead. Like God intended. Or you can turn it into escape, if you're that sort of person. Or... I suppose you could make it lock...

Never existed on the nexus 9, pixel c or 2015 pixel chrome book.

Not every 'chromebook' is the same.

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