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Re: 2015 Chromebook Pixel

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Post by mkozlows »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #266

Owner of a last-gen Pixel here. I don't see myself upgrading any time soon, but as far as refreshes go, this one seems to address most of my complaints, namely: - More RAM - Better battery life / charge time - USB-C ports Here's what I'm not sure if it will fix: - Overheating (original Pixel gets HOT on the top-left corner where I'm guessing the CPU resides) - OpenVPN support (ChromeOS does not support simply loading…

Computer World says it no longer gets hot, and the fans are quieter: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2895014/new-chromebook-...

Re: 2015 Chromebook Pixel

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Post by ChuckMcM »

platinum1 wrote: post #202
ChuckMcM wrote: post #157

Pretty neat. And caveat the port issue[1] pretty nice. I wonder what the battery life is like with Linux installed (probably not 12 hours :-) Now if they added a wireless charging option so that when I set it upon my desk it was powered/charging wirelessly that would be pretty neat. I'm amazed as how closely it tracks the macbook 13. They could be twins. [1] The whole one port to rule them all which is fine except th…

It does have two Type C connectors

Odd, I read their weirdly scrolling site twice and came away with the impression it had only one. I sit corrected, now I guess I'll have to buy it. :-)

Re: 2015 Chromebook Pixel

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Post by pbreit »

akhilcacharya wrote: post #258
TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #222

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They've done it many times before: * Original iMac (all-USB, no floppy disk drive) * MacBook Air (no CD drive) * MacBook Pro (no Ethernet) People have gotten used to it each time.

The problem isn't the new port in my opinion, the problem is you only get one of it, and its the only port that can be used for charging as well. If it had another means of charging or another port (like, say, on the back) I wouldn't mind as much.

iPads and iPhones have one port and it works absolutely fine, despite what all the naysayers said.

Re: 2015 Chromebook Pixel

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Post by marbletiles »

benihana wrote: post #299
ChuckMcM wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What most people have missed is that USB allows charging and data over the same port. So you can easily get a power adapter that has a charging tip which has on the same cord another USB-C port (socket) which you can plug into your display chain, or port replicator or what not. In Apple's case I fully expect they will make it so that when you plug your Apple display into your laptop it also charges it since the charg…

At this point, I find this whole thing funny. Again. How many times has Apple done this in modern times? Remember the outrage when Apple removed floppy disk drives? Optical drives? Ethernet ports? Remember how mad everyone got when Apple replaced their old, thick connector on the iPhone 5? Nobody complains about how thin their phone is now that the old 30pin connector is no longer the limiting factor on size. Nobody…

> Nobody complains about how thin their phone is now that the old 30pin connector is no longer the limiting factor on size

Yeah, they do. Ask someone whose iPhone has just died (again) if they'd take it being a bit thicker with a bit more battery, and I don't know anyone who wouldn't make the trade.

And I personally still miss living in a world where no matter where you went you were never more than 5 feet from a 30-pin cable.

Re: 2015 Chromebook Pixel

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Post by spot »

zobzu wrote: post #297
revelation wrote: post #148

Jesus, designing a usable ultrabook must be very difficult. We have one contender from California, but their ideology has them offer just a single USB-C port. Now we get the competitor from Mountain View, who have rightly recognized the need for more than one fucking port when that's how you charge the damn thing, and what do they decide? Oh yeah, we'll top out storage at 64GiB.

That's because you're supposed to store all your data on Google servers (this is not sarcasm). For 1000 USD however this is ridiculous. Just go DELL or Asus or similar. The XPS13 is excellent for example, come with proper ports, disk space, is light, is fast, has long battery life, has great screen, etc. Getting an Apple or Google ultra-light laptop just because they're big, rich, trendy companies doesn't seem like a…

xps13 does not have a retina screen.

i don't think i could buy a non HiDPI device anymore.

Re: 2015 Chromebook Pixel

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Post by dkrich »

aikah wrote: post #263
cdelsolar wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

because $1299 is a fortune

> because $1299 is a fortune Yes, for some people it is a serious investment. You might win 500k or more a year, good for you, you are successful. But for people who have kids who will have to go to University ,even at 100k a year , $1300 isn't a small amount of money. If you think people buy laptops like they buy candies well you're a privileged man, and again I wish you the best,but that's not the reality for most…

It's not even so much about it being affordable but rather how much it costs relative to other devices on the market. $1300 is a pretty high price point for a laptop and in that range you're competing with high-end notebooks like Apple. A Chromebook fits a niche for lightweight web-browsers, but I'm not prepared to spend $1300 for a notebook built solely to surf the net.

Re: 2015 Chromebook Pixel

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Post by jethro_tell »

kissickas wrote: post #319
AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #266

Owner of a last-gen Pixel here. I don't see myself upgrading any time soon, but as far as refreshes go, this one seems to address most of my complaints, namely: - More RAM - Better battery life / charge time - USB-C ports Here's what I'm not sure if it will fix: - Overheating (original Pixel gets HOT on the top-left corner where I'm guessing the CPU resides) - OpenVPN support (ChromeOS does not support simply loading…

Google will never fix the lack of apps? I thought they were making progress towards enabling most Android apps to function in ChromeOS?

I think that is here now.

Re: 2015 Chromebook Pixel

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Post by copsarebastards »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #173
revelation wrote: post #148

Jesus, designing a usable ultrabook must be very difficult. We have one contender from California, but their ideology has them offer just a single USB-C port. Now we get the competitor from Mountain View, who have rightly recognized the need for more than one fucking port when that's how you charge the damn thing, and what do they decide? Oh yeah, we'll top out storage at 64GiB.

What most people have missed is that USB allows charging and data over the same port. So you can easily get a power adapter that has a charging tip which has on the same cord another USB-C port (socket) which you can plug into your display chain, or port replicator or what not. In Apple's case I fully expect they will make it so that when you plug your Apple display into your laptop it also charges it since the charg…

> What most people have missed is that USB allows charging and data over the same port. So you can easily get a power adapter that has a charging tip which has on the same cord another USB-C port (socket) which you can plug into your display chain, or port replicator or what not.

What you seem to have missed is that this is nobody cares.

Nobody is going, "I really wish I could charge my laptop through the same port I connect my external hard drive to." This just isn't a problem people have.

However, plenty of people say about the MacBook Air, "I really wish I could transfer data from my external storage hard drive to my thumb drive while my MacBook Air is plugged into my monitor." The new MacBook Air that they've oddly rebranded to confuse with the entire MacBook brand will have a much worse problem in this respect.

Re: 2015 Chromebook Pixel

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Post by nfoz »

xnxn wrote: post #295
revelation wrote: post #235

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Surely a majority of people buying this won't be running the actual Chromebook system on it? What application can you even run on that system that would use 8GiB of RAM and an i5? And last I checked, you couldn't even run Skype on it, so I mean I just come up pretty much empty for the set of people willing to run Chromebook the OS and buy a 1k machine to do it. Since Chromebook is Linux under the hood, they'll presum…

> couldn't even run Skype on it Hangouts?

... would be fine until I want to talk to my mother, who uses Skype. And then it would feel strangely limiting to not be able to do that on my $999 computer.

Re: 2015 Chromebook Pixel

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Post by darcyparker »

zanny wrote: post #181
revelation wrote: post #148

Jesus, designing a usable ultrabook must be very difficult. We have one contender from California, but their ideology has them offer just a single USB-C port. Now we get the competitor from Mountain View, who have rightly recognized the need for more than one fucking port when that's how you charge the damn thing, and what do they decide? Oh yeah, we'll top out storage at 64GiB.

I thought this years XPS 13 from Dell looked really slick. When it comes out in Sputnik mode it will definitely be the Linux notebook of the year.

It's a nice laptop... but underspec'd for me. I'd like to see USB-C and more than 1920 x 1080 resolution. I don't care as much about the resolution on a 13" screen. But I'd like to be able to drive a 4K monitor. It's not clear to me whether it can drive a 4K monitor with its display port.
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