[img]http://1.androidauthority.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/chromebook-pixel-1.jpg[/img]
[url]http://www.androidauthority.com/chromebook-pixel-video-154370/[/url]
Thought this was pretty interesting and thought it deserved it's own thread. This looks pretty hot and could be the beginning of the age of chromebooks.
but probably not.
Looks like a near perfect laptop in my opinion, if it's real hopefully they keep it affordable like their recent products and innovate on the ChromeOS, with some better app support.
Would this be the chromebook equivalent of a nexus or?
[QUOTE=sdwise;39497341]Would this be the chromebook equivalent of a nexus or?[/QUOTE]
It looks like they're wanting to get back into laptops or 'Chromebooks' as they call them, so they have a complete line-up, phone, small tablet, large tablet and laptop, all running a similar operating system, since I'll bet they'll start to take some things they liked from the recent Android iterations and use them in the ChromeOS.
Either way it looks really good design wise, great display, touch screen is a bonus, if they sell at or below manufacturing costs like they did the N4/N7 to get people to use their services it will probably be a hit.
god damnit Google, leave my wallet alone.
I think ChromeOS would need to support more offline stuff for me to buy one of these (if they exist), I still don't think that data is available enough to sustain one here.
I would buy it if they make it run Android or made a similar machine which ran Android or Ubuntu.
[QUOTE=RoboChimp;39523006]I would buy it if they make it run Android or made a similar machine which ran Android or Ubuntu.[/QUOTE]
Or maybe some decent laptop OS?
[QUOTE=RoboChimp;39523006]I would buy it if they make it run Android or made a similar machine which ran Android or Ubuntu.[/QUOTE]
I am sure you could run Android x86 on it.
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;39523259]Or maybe some decent laptop OS?[/QUOTE]
like chromeos?
[QUOTE=loophole;39523616]I am sure you could run Android x86 on it.[/QUOTE]
Does it say it's going to be x86 specifically anywhere?
If it were up to me, I'd put something touch and mouse friendly like GNOME 3.xx on this, I don't think RT would be viable in any way because of licensing costs and the fact that RT is a lazy effort
[editline]9th February 2013[/editline]
GNOME has mostly OK DPI scaling, better than windows at least. But there isn't any centralized control centre for scaling in GNOME, you have to fiddle about with font scaling and smoothing which is seperate from the scaling panel, but overall that's an issue that needs to be fixed with most desktop operating systems excluding OSX which does a fantastic job at good DPI scaling
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;39527515]Does it say it's going to be x86 specifically anywhere?[/QUOTE]
Haven't all chromebooks up to this point been x86?
[QUOTE=loophole;39529112]Haven't all chromebooks up to this point been x86?[/QUOTE]
No, Samsung have at least one ARM Chromebook.
If it ran ChromeOS I don't see why it should be on an x86 processor seeing as they aren't as aimed at power saving as modern ARM processors are
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;39529122]No, Samsung have at least one ARM Chromebook.
If it ran ChromeOS I don't see why it should be on an x86 processor seeing as they aren't as aimed at power saving as modern ARM processors are[/QUOTE]
They really should just put a phone or tablet sized pcb in one and fill the rest with battery.
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;39529203]The board in my Nexus S is barely 12cm² what you would have to consider is how you would mount the various USB ports & other jacks on the inside.[/QUOTE]
Ribbon cable(s) & daughterboard(s)?
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;39529203]The board in my Nexus S is barely 12cm² what you would have to consider is how you would mount the various USB ports & other jacks on the inside.[/QUOTE]
In a full sized laptop, that would not really be too much of a problem.
[QUOTE=Ezhik;39530746][url]http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/9/3971248/chrome-os-documentation-shows-lightbar-from-chromebook-pixel-leak[/url][/QUOTE]
I hope so much that is is real, it's a great looking laptop with a stunning resolution, that I will be able to throw Linux on to with relative ease
[editline]9th February 2013[/editline]
I just hope the touchpad is good.
I think it looks clumsy as fuck [sp]Looks like one of the old IBM bricks - doesn't look slick at all =([/sp], but it seems to work good.
[QUOTE=Killervalon;39584525]Looks like one of the old IBM bricks - doesn't look slick at all =([/QUOTE]
Boy, you're in the wrong kind of neighborhood to say such thing.
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;39584866]How dare you!
The Thinkpad is still the slickest looking laptop around, bar the CR 48 of course.[/QUOTE]
Or black Macbook pro, say what you want about business ethics or price but Apple know their design.
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;39584995]Kinda forced to agree, I'd be all over a black MBP if they were matte.[/QUOTE]
Google should release a black one just like the CR-48, with matté display as an option, I would buy that shit.
[QUOTE=Killervalon;39584525]I think it looks clumsy as fuck [sp]Looks like one of the old IBM bricks - doesn't look slick at all =([/sp], but it seems to work good.[/QUOTE]
Tiers of laptop hotness
God tier:
ThinkPads
Macbooks
Alright tier:
Those that ripoff apple/lenovo
Lame tier:
Everything else
Soooooooooooooooooooo this is real.
[url]http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebook-pixel/[/url]
$1300, oh wow.
[QUOTE=Nalty;39671693]Soooooooooooooooooooo this is real.
[url]http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebook-pixel/[/url]
$1300, oh wow.[/QUOTE]
That price is rather unfortunate to be honest.
Drive actually works very nicely, I use it all the time.
But internally, 32GB just isn't enough. 64 or even 128GB for that price seems a lot more fair.
i guess they really want to push people to their cloud service also only 5hr working time
I can get a refurb'd retina MacBook Pro 13" which has a vastly superior CPU, especially if the chrome book 1.8GHz chip is an ULV one. 4x the storage, 2x the RAM, more outputs including USB3, oh and a real desktop operating system. $1259. Has a one year warranty and everything. Why would I buy the pixel? Because its a bit lighter and has a bit more vertical resolution and a touchscreen? Unless I want to use the touchscreen a lot, I really don't see the appeal.
If I'm missing something please tell me, because this feels like it makes no sense at all. Especially when you think about how Google prices their other products.
It doesn't really make sense.
This is an awful turn on Google's part. I probably would have considered one if it didn't have such a paltry internal storage and that awful price.
An MBP or competing Thinkpad are the only real options at that price point if you want a decent experience.
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