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The Chromebook Pixel’s best feature

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Re: The Chromebook Pixel’s best feature

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Post by skore »

taligent wrote: post #68
skore wrote: post #39

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Well, obviously it's marketed as a device that is supposed to have the lion share of its data in the cloud. In that regard, 32GB is plenty. I like to think of it as something that could make a pretty neat remote desktop workstation. I've actually thought about putting my main linux workstation on the LAN, somewhere else (it's a bit noisy) and logging into it from a thin client. The Chromebook Pixel does make a rather…

Actually it would be a pointless to use it for the purpose you describe. What truly separates Pixel from a $250 laptop is the retina, touchscreen display which is wasted if you are exclusively using it for VNC.

The touchscreen maybe, but why the high resolution?

Re: The Chromebook Pixel’s best feature

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Post by petsos »

snotrockets wrote: post #90
petsos wrote: post #80

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I think you are missing the point of using multiple windows. You don't need to have N number of symmetrical windows all the time. You can have e.g. a small IM window on the side and a twitter client underneath, a terminal at the bottom, etc. Personally I even like partially overlapping windows, e.g. I can only have part of a terminal visible if I'm tailing a file, I just need to see if something comes and then I can…

So instead of having an aspect ratio that fits computing, you prefer to work around a movie-fitting aspect ratio.

Why do you say that it doesn't fit computing? Perhaps I'm not very OCD, but I don't see why you always need to see the whole window of an app to work efficiently.

But that's just me, even if you prefer tiling windows, you can have many more configurations than the split screen.

Re: The Chromebook Pixel’s best feature

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Post by snogglethorpe »

shoopy wrote: post #9

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills when I talk about aspect ratios with average consumers. Most people really do believe--probably through HDTV marketing--that wider screens are better. The lion's share of most people's time on the Internet is spent reading and scolling vertically, yet our devices are optimized for watching little sixty second movie clips at a time. Why wouldn't you want to make the 95% case more ple…

I like wider screens 'cause I can have multiple editor/terminal/etc windows wide-by-side... I find things usually just fit together "better" on wide-format screens than on 4:3 screens.

So yes, I believe wider screens are better. :]

[Needless to say, I also find the constant bloviating on places like HN from people that think 4:3 screens are better for dev work pretty silly...]

Re: The Chromebook Pixel’s best feature

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Post by BitMastro »

taligent wrote: post #62
Cieplak wrote: post #47

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It can boot Linux. In that regard, it has the potential to be a general purpose laptop. Although you have to keep your files in the "cloud" because it only has 32gb of storage.

It can boot Linux but the trackpad and touchscreen doesn't work. Again. Why wouldn't you buy a MacBook Pro that is usable out of the box ?

It can boot linux just fine https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/21/378
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