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Re: $149 Chromebooks

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Post by SwellJoe »

josefresco wrote: post #22
dpcan wrote: post #6

Where is the $149 Windows-Based laptop with SSD, 2-4GB RAM, and moderate graphics, that can run your usual Office to Minecraft software? The Chromebook-killer from Microsoft should be here, but all I hear about are the Surfaces. Honestly, the only reason my kids don't have Chromebooks is because they don't easily run Minecraft or downloadable games. Sure they can do their school work on them, but they also like to pl…

$149 is ridiculously cheap and I don't think Microsoft wants, or should want to operate in that market. At the $200-$300 price range there are many Windows choices - most with significantly better hardware and features. Microsoft: Leave the sub $200 market to others and leverage your online services to sell to those consumers.

Microsoft ate IBM and others from the bottom, because the margins were too low on PC vs mainframe and minis. And now, you're suggesting Microsoft should accept being eaten from the bottom because the margins are too low (I guess that's what you're arguing). Classic innovator's dilemma scenario.

Those who don't learn from history will repeat it. Even those who made the history in question.

Re: $149 Chromebooks

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Post by razvanh »

daeken wrote: post #36
elchief wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft isn't as good at collecting and reselling all of your personal information, so have to charge the actual cost of the hardware.

> Microsoft isn't as good at collecting and reselling all of your personal information, so have to charge the actual cost of the hardware. Google does not sell your personal information in any way. They use it for their own advertising purposes, but they don't sell it to anyone, in any form.

advertising is selling your information to advertisers.

Re: $149 Chromebooks

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Post by higherpurpose »

dpcan wrote: post #6

Where is the $149 Windows-Based laptop with SSD, 2-4GB RAM, and moderate graphics, that can run your usual Office to Minecraft software? The Chromebook-killer from Microsoft should be here, but all I hear about are the Surfaces. Honestly, the only reason my kids don't have Chromebooks is because they don't easily run Minecraft or downloadable games. Sure they can do their school work on them, but they also like to pl…

A $150 Windows-based laptop would be a crappy netbook. Chrome should run significantly better on Chrome OS than it does on Windows or IE does on Windows for that matter.

Also, Chromebooks usually seem to be targeted at kids or tech illiterate folks who don't want the complexity of Windows. Even a $99 Windows machine won't change that.

And what about the security of Chrome OS? It's "virtually" unhackable, while Windows...well, it's Windows.

As for Minecraft, Google has been promising Android apps on Chromebooks, so maybe before long that will work, too. But as others have said, it's still $150 hardware. So I wouldn't expect too much from it.

Also, last I checked Office also runs in the browser now? Microsoft seems to be making quite a big deal about that actually.

Re: $149 Chromebooks

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Post by gonzo »

daeken wrote: post #36
elchief wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft isn't as good at collecting and reselling all of your personal information, so have to charge the actual cost of the hardware.

> Microsoft isn't as good at collecting and reselling all of your personal information, so have to charge the actual cost of the hardware. Google does not sell your personal information in any way. They use it for their own advertising purposes, but they don't sell it to anyone, in any form.

With Google, the product is you. You (your demographic profile) is sold, by Google, to their advertisers.

This includes potentially identifying information.

Re: $149 Chromebooks

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Post by smackfu »

lewisl9029 wrote: post #37
jhardcastle wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More details on Cnet - http://www.cnet.com/uk/products/asus-chromebit/ Bluetooth 4.0, WiFi 802.11AC, USB 2.0 for accessories, 2GB of RAM and 16GB SSD

Wow. AC wireless in a $100 device. Now I'm interested. What does it do for power? Through the USB port like most other similar devices I'm assuming?

You can get AC routers for under $80 now, and they are basically just Linux boxes.

Re: $149 Chromebooks

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Post by lern_too_spel »

elchief wrote: post #34
dpcan wrote: post #6

Where is the $149 Windows-Based laptop with SSD, 2-4GB RAM, and moderate graphics, that can run your usual Office to Minecraft software? The Chromebook-killer from Microsoft should be here, but all I hear about are the Surfaces. Honestly, the only reason my kids don't have Chromebooks is because they don't easily run Minecraft or downloadable games. Sure they can do their school work on them, but they also like to pl…

Microsoft isn't as good at collecting and reselling all of your personal information, so have to charge the actual cost of the hardware.

Microsoft is as good at collecting personal information as anybody. Collecting information isn't hard. They're just not very good at making that information useful to the people who provide that information or to themselves, via advertising or otherwise.

Re: $149 Chromebooks

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Post by ctz »

josefresco wrote: post #22
dpcan wrote: post #6

Where is the $149 Windows-Based laptop with SSD, 2-4GB RAM, and moderate graphics, that can run your usual Office to Minecraft software? The Chromebook-killer from Microsoft should be here, but all I hear about are the Surfaces. Honestly, the only reason my kids don't have Chromebooks is because they don't easily run Minecraft or downloadable games. Sure they can do their school work on them, but they also like to pl…

$149 is ridiculously cheap and I don't think Microsoft wants, or should want to operate in that market. At the $200-$300 price range there are many Windows choices - most with significantly better hardware and features. Microsoft: Leave the sub $200 market to others and leverage your online services to sell to those consumers.

Well, just this week a purchased a HP Stream 7 Signature edition for £50 (~=$50). Microsoft is definitely in the market.

Re: $149 Chromebooks

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Post by e40 »

dpcan wrote: post #6

Where is the $149 Windows-Based laptop with SSD, 2-4GB RAM, and moderate graphics, that can run your usual Office to Minecraft software? The Chromebook-killer from Microsoft should be here, but all I hear about are the Surfaces. Honestly, the only reason my kids don't have Chromebooks is because they don't easily run Minecraft or downloadable games. Sure they can do their school work on them, but they also like to pl…

My son uses a Chromebook for homework and a Windows PC for games. I consider it a huge feature that they are separate devices. Much too tempting otherwise.

Re: $149 Chromebooks

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Post by higherpurpose »

smackfu wrote: post #25
dpcan wrote: post #6

Where is the $149 Windows-Based laptop with SSD, 2-4GB RAM, and moderate graphics, that can run your usual Office to Minecraft software? The Chromebook-killer from Microsoft should be here, but all I hear about are the Surfaces. Honestly, the only reason my kids don't have Chromebooks is because they don't easily run Minecraft or downloadable games. Sure they can do their school work on them, but they also like to pl…

This is running an ARM chip, not an x86 one.

What does that have to do with anything. Minecraft runs on ARM.
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