Leaked video: 100% Google-designed Chromebook Pixel with touchscreen and 2560 x 1700 resolution - Polidicks

[QUOTE=meppers;39497331]hopefully Google will be nice enough to let you install windows on it if you want to[/QUOTE] What if uses an ARM processor?

[QUOTE=daijitsu;39497100]why is everyone insisting this is the new terrible future of all technology ever[/QUOTE] Because I can't plug a cat5 ethernet cable straight into the dirt of the ground and get [I]"OMG TEH INTERNETZ!!"[/I] Without internet, a Chromebook is useless.

[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;39497473]What if uses an ARM processor?[/QUOTE] ARM version of Windows?

[QUOTE=Gran PC;39497583]ARM version of Windows?[/QUOTE] Does that even exist?[sub][sub][sub]Almost certainly not[/sub][/sub][/sub] Excusing RT, because that's only available to vendors.

I'm not even sure what I would use a laptop for if I didn't have an internet connection Regardless, [url=http://www.zdnet.com/yes-you-can-use-the-new-chromebook-offline-7000006103/]you [I]can[/I] use chromebooks offline[/url]

[QUOTE=Van-man;39497572]Because I can't plug a cat5 ethernet cable straight into the dirt of the ground and get [I]"OMG TEH INTERNETZ!!"[/I] Without internet, a Chromebook is useless.[/QUOTE] that's the point I'm making, everyone keeps speculating companies are going to do this out of total disregard for how it would affect sales and alienate their markets.

I'm looking forward into this. Google have my trust, they made many great things, hope this one will be on a list.

Meh the macbook pro did this a year ago. The only good thing about this is that it won't cost £1,500. [editline]6th February 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=KorJax;39497310]Honestly I could give a flying fuck Am I the only one that doesn't care about super high resolutions for a mobile device? I don't honestly see the point, as long as it isn't abysmally low.[/QUOTE] Hold an iPhone 3G and an iPhone 4 next to each other and say that.

Now if it wasn't a Chromebook I'd buy it

[QUOTE=Amiga OS;39497138]HP and Samsung just need to give up with their cheap tacky Chromebooks, nobody in their right mind would buy one.[/QUOTE] [img]http://localhostr.com/files/FX4yTQI/um.png[/img]

I signed up for the beta of the cr48 and actually got one. After a few months I decided to put ubuntu on it. Later I decided to put win7 but it took up too much of the microscopic ssd, so I went back to ubuntu. Works pretty decently. I'd love to have one with that awesome resolution and a faster processor! for anyone wondering how to install windows: [url]http://cr-48.wikispaces.com/Windows7[/url] or linux: [url]http://cr-48.wikispaces.com/Install+Ubuntu[/url] if you flash the bios you can install what ever you want as you would normally. [url]http://cr-48.wikispaces.com/Flash+BIOS[/url]

[QUOTE=Amiga OS;39497898]It will probably get a port of GNU+Linux in no time.[/QUOTE] Considering it's got a display that's not a pile of crap (I hope at least, no point having a really high density screen if it's shit) I can imagine that happening pretty quickly.

[QUOTE=KorJax;39497310]Honestly I could give a flying fuck Am I the only one that doesn't care about super high resolutions for a mobile device? I don't honestly see the point, as long as it isn't abysmally low.[/QUOTE] Compare 1366x768 laptops to something like this. You'll care.

[QUOTE=Gran PC;39497583]ARM version of Windows?[/QUOTE] But even if an end user could install RT, there's nothing in RT worth having on such a device.

[QUOTE=Amiga OS;39497898]It will probably get a port of GNU+Linux in no time.[/QUOTE] How is DPI scaling on Linux?

[QUOTE=daijitsu;39497670]that's the point I'm making, everyone keeps speculating companies are going to do this out of total disregard for how it would affect sales and alienate their markets.[/QUOTE] But there are already chrome books out there?

this had better be quite cheap, manufacturers are only just cottoning onto the fact that chromebooks work best when they're cheaper than full featured laptops

[QUOTE=DoctorSalt;39496956]Me wants. Of course the price could be make or break, and the fact it's google means it'll be very reliant on internet connectivity. EDIT: I mean that's the point, right? It gives ~200 GB Google Drive storage and some small ~16 GB SSD? My flash drive is as big as the internal storage. Correct me if I'm wrong here.[/QUOTE] and what do you exactly do with a normal notebook when it's not connected to the internet exactly

[QUOTE=latin_geek;39498444]and what do you exactly do with a normal notebook when it's not connected to the internet exactly[/QUOTE] Perhaps I'm too used to my current laptop (which isn't nearly a netbook). However, I love watching movies all the time, and I like to rewatch all the DVDs I ripped to it. That would certainly fill more space than I had with a 16 GB drive. Perhaps note/chromebooks simply aren't for me.

[QUOTE=Kaabii;39498253]How is DPI scaling on Desktop Environments?[/QUOTE] It should be good, they are actively working to fix issues ([url=http://community.kde.org/KDE/High-dpi_issues]KDE high-dpi issues[/url] for example)

[QUOTE=Scot;39497750]Meh the macbook pro did this a year ago. The only good thing about this is that it won't cost £1,500. [editline]6th February 2013[/editline] Hold an iPhone 3G and an iPhone 4 next to each other and say that.[/QUOTE] Whoops, I meant to say netbook/tablet.

It's still a huge difference. My engineering teacher had a 15" MBP which was 2880x1800. Absolutely incredible screen. [editline]6th February 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=danharibo;39498548]It should be good, they are actively working to fix issues ([url=http://community.kde.org/KDE/High-dpi_issues]KDE high-dpi issues[/url] for example)[/QUOTE] Meanwhile Win8 still scales like crap. Thanks for letting me know though. If I ever got a retina macbook or something I'd definitely have a GNU+Linux partition.

[QUOTE=Killuah;39498274]But there are already chrome books out there?[/QUOTE] which are marketed as light e-reading browser machines, not laptops; it was a weird bridge product. This thing didn't even mention internet and simplistic approaches to anything, it described itself as a laptop designed from the ground up with a cool screen yet people freaked out about it immediately, which is going to cause a ton of misrepresentation of the product by people with zero clue about what it does.

I've really never seen the whole point in chrome books, simply because a whole OS dedicated to a browser seems silly to me

[QUOTE=Amiga OS;39497138]HP and Samsung just need to give up with their cheap tacky Chromebooks, nobody in their right mind would buy one.[/QUOTE] the samsung one feels pretty ok actually for a $250 thing. it even has an unlocked cellular data antenna, just pop in a sim card and go

Could this finally be the Chromebook to dethrone the S5 550?

MY GOD SOMEBODY RELEASE A HIGH RESOLUTION MONITOR THAT ISN'T APPLE I'm not getting a laptop for photo and video processing god dammit that's ridiculous

[QUOTE=Trogdon;39501284]MY GOD SOMEBODY RELEASE A HIGH RESOLUTION MONITOR THAT ISN'T APPLE I'm not getting a laptop for photo and video processing god dammit that's ridiculous[/QUOTE] Acer is working on one that's like 2880x1620 or something around that. It won't matter if you're running Windows though The DPI scaling is atrocious, and Cleartype fonts can get mangled beyond belief. [url]http://techreport.com/review/23631/how-windows-8-scaling-fails-on-high-ppi-displays[/url]

[QUOTE=Trogdon;39501284]MY GOD SOMEBODY RELEASE A HIGH RESOLUTION MONITOR THAT ISN'T APPLE I'm not getting a laptop for photo and video processing god dammit that's ridiculous[/QUOTE] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_T220/T221_LCD_monitors]IBM T220/T221[/url] [url=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/IBM_T221.jpg]An almost 4k image of a 4k monitor[/url]

the reason no one is making a huge hi-res 4k monitor is because: 1. all off the shelf nvidia 6XX and amd 7XXX cant go past 2560x1440 or something similar 2. the windows 8 desktop is pretty bad scaling (the metro side is fine though)