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What's the experience like for Linux-on-Chromebook these days? Can I expect hardware support that's equal of what I get with a Lenovo T470s?
Interesting that there is no reference to targeting developers/coding at all for this device. Seems targeted at creatives with the Pen and Lightroom/etc on it. Other than that, none of the example apps it can support seem to me to really require "high performance" at all. Which is too bad, because it's a pretty device. Just seems like it's in a weird uncanny valley where it's probably way too much horsepower for most…
Personally I'd love to have a dev Chromebook. The software stack running on it is second to none. Even the BIOS is light-years ahead any Windows/Linux box. As for OSX I'm not familiar with the boot process.
Basically a mix of UEFI and their proprietary SMC controller on the system board.
The SMC is actually kind of nice to have since it means that the actual boot sector is more sandboxed.
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Well, for one, it doesn't run windows.
We are trying to list features, not defects.
"Proper" crouton, not getting beeped at, waiting for boot delay & sacrificing security etc would be the only way this could be compelling.
Interesting that there is no reference to targeting developers/coding at all for this device. Seems targeted at creatives with the Pen and Lightroom/etc on it. Other than that, none of the example apps it can support seem to me to really require "high performance" at all. Which is too bad, because it's a pretty device. Just seems like it's in a weird uncanny valley where it's probably way too much horsepower for most…
I really agree with the "uncanny valley" judgement. I would absolutely love to ditch my Windows 10 laptop for a smooth, efficient, and secure ChromeOS device. However, it simply doesn't have the software support, unfortunately. What I see a lot of "power users" doing is simply using their Chromebook to remote into their desktop for their application work. However, what then is the point of putting such powerful hardw…
Naive question - how would one set up a desktop at home to make it securely remotely accessible?
http://m.gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news/google-pixel-reseller...
http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/1/jordan-b-peters...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-21/one-statistics-prof...
Given that Google has a propensity to lock you out of your account completely if they suspect you violating TOS on any of their services, I would be very wary of this device. Do you want this computer and anything you created with it inaccessible because Google didn't like a video or blog post you made?
Interesting that there is no reference to targeting developers/coding at all for this device. Seems targeted at creatives with the Pen and Lightroom/etc on it. Other than that, none of the example apps it can support seem to me to really require "high performance" at all. Which is too bad, because it's a pretty device. Just seems like it's in a weird uncanny valley where it's probably way too much horsepower for most…
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> iPhone location history stays on the phone. Not if you take photos and use iCloud.
There is a clear difference between using iCloud (which is opt-in) with geotagged photos (which you can disable from on-phone settings), and your phone sending your location to Google at regular intervals.
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I'm willing to bet crouton runs on it out of the box so you can get a dev environment up fast.
But the developer mode notification on bootup kills the laptop :( It warns you that you're in developer mode, makes a beep, and prompts you to push spacebar if you want to turn off dev mode, deleting everything on your computer. Maybe you know to never make this mistake. Maybe you almost never turn off your computer. All that needs to happen is for you to reboot the computer once (say, it ran out of batteries while y…
This landing page is incredibly laggy on my mid 2015 Retina MBPRO, scrolling is super annoying.