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Re: The Chromebook Pixel

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Post by theoretick »

commandar wrote: post #68
javajosh wrote: post #58

There are only three meaningful things you can do with a computer with specs like this: development, design, or gaming. And yet ChromeOS can't do any of these things. Perhaps this is a vanity product for the wealthy. But wealthy people are going to just surf the web on an iPad. I really don't get this product.

>And yet ChromeOS can't do any of these things. Am I just imagining all the posts I've seen on HN from people talking about being extremely happy using Chromebooks as development platforms?

I'll assume that's sarcasm but I haven't personally noticed that trend. The only way I made my cr-48 useful was by flashing the BIOS, adding a bigger SD, and running ubuntu on it.

Re: The Chromebook Pixel

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Post by ajross »

btipling wrote: post #10

This is basically a $1,300 web browser. I don't get it, beautiful touch display or not.

It's a PC laptop. I'm reasonably certain desktop Linux distros will be running on it in the very near future.

The screen is magnificent. And I love the move to a taller aspect (it's slightly larger, vertically, than the 13.3" screen I'm using now).

The board itself is pretty meh, though. Dual core Ivy Bridge with 4G. That will run desktop stuff, but it will do virtualization poorly. Big software builds are going to suffer a lot vs. my quad core laptop (which looks to be about 3x faster). And the 32-64G of built-in storage is mostly a joke; that just isn't going to cut it for serious development work.

So I won't buy one. But wow, I like that screen.

Re: The Chromebook Pixel

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Post by jmhain »

speeder wrote: post #31

I think it is purely amazing the specs for that price. But I am really bothered by the fact that it is... A Chromebook. I hate "cloud" stuff, I like to have stuff where I know where they are, and who can see them. Also I live in Brazil, where internet is patchy, at best. And it is sad it does not support Ethernet... I like Ethernet! It is faster and more stable! But impressive, very impressive, well done Google. If a…

> And it is sad it does not support Ethernet... I like Ethernet! It is faster and more stable!

Most ultrabooks don't come with ethernet either. But it has USB ports, and USB ethernet adapters are not too expensive.

Re: The Chromebook Pixel

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Post by taeric »

commandar wrote: post #68
javajosh wrote: post #58

There are only three meaningful things you can do with a computer with specs like this: development, design, or gaming. And yet ChromeOS can't do any of these things. Perhaps this is a vanity product for the wealthy. But wealthy people are going to just surf the web on an iPad. I really don't get this product.

>And yet ChromeOS can't do any of these things. Am I just imagining all the posts I've seen on HN from people talking about being extremely happy using Chromebooks as development platforms?

Aren't most of those folks replacing the os on their machines?

Re: The Chromebook Pixel

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Post by criley »

commandar wrote: post #68
javajosh wrote: post #58

There are only three meaningful things you can do with a computer with specs like this: development, design, or gaming. And yet ChromeOS can't do any of these things. Perhaps this is a vanity product for the wealthy. But wealthy people are going to just surf the web on an iPad. I really don't get this product.

>And yet ChromeOS can't do any of these things. Am I just imagining all the posts I've seen on HN from people talking about being extremely happy using Chromebooks as development platforms?

How do you develop on this?

I'm used to using Linux, command line, text editors, local installs of the product I'm developing for, virtual machines, etc...

Are you simply forced into using ALL websites to actually develop and unable to use anything else?

Seems strange to pay $1250+ to develop on a machine that cannot even run or test the code you write.

Re: The Chromebook Pixel

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Post by ConstantineXVI »

commandar wrote: post #68
javajosh wrote: post #58

There are only three meaningful things you can do with a computer with specs like this: development, design, or gaming. And yet ChromeOS can't do any of these things. Perhaps this is a vanity product for the wealthy. But wealthy people are going to just surf the web on an iPad. I really don't get this product.

>And yet ChromeOS can't do any of these things. Am I just imagining all the posts I've seen on HN from people talking about being extremely happy using Chromebooks as development platforms?

Either after flipping the dev-mode switch and running a chroot or such (thus being outside CrOS's use case), or using it entirely as a thin client (which doesn't need this kind of horsepower).

Re: The Chromebook Pixel

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Post by ebbv »

picklefish wrote: post #73
jjcm wrote: post #45

I know this is going to seem like a nitpick, but laptops without magnetic power connectors these days just feel cheap. It's such a simple addition that greatly improves the product. I don't see why larger companies aren't all converting over to them. I know apple has a patent on them, but there's tons of prior art for heaven's sake. I think the only non-apple product out there I've seen with them on it is the microso…

Maybe this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagSafe Apple exclusively owns US Patent No. 7311526 ("Magnetic connector for electronic device", issued in 2007) and does not license the MagSafe connector or the patent.

And yet Microsoft has magnetic power connectors on the Surface tablets.

Re: The Chromebook Pixel

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Post by theoretick »

influx wrote: post #76

I wish Google would come up with a unique design, they have the talent for it, this looks very much like an Apple product to me.

The labeling on the spine is a nice touch, I rather like that. Otherwise, most of them have been woeful copies.
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