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

Hardware looks nice, but I'm curious any chance of running windows on it, since chromeOS really isn't my thing, but the laptop could be a lot cheaper than standard

[QUOTE=meppers;39501559]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)[/QUOTE] That's high enough resolution for me, I just want more resolution from photoshop

It's funny how right now mobile devices are surpassing pc and tv monitors in resolution. Hope 2560x screens will be affordable soon.

[QUOTE=meppers;39501559]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 ([b]the metro side is fine though[/b])[/QUOTE] No it is not. If you look two posts above you you'll see that everything is too big or too small, and it still has issues with visual artifacts.

[QUOTE=The golden;39501772]That is some sexy hardware but you couldn't pay me to use chromeOS.[/QUOTE] Of course. If this was a real thing I'd put KDE on it right away and marvel at the insane DPI, I can't wait to move beyond the 2x 1366x768 displays I'm using right now.

[QUOTE=meppers;39501559]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)[/QUOTE] 3. very little people need a friggin 4k monitor

[QUOTE=daijitsu;39497297]on the one hand, I think it's absolutely stupid people keep fear mongering new products under the fact you'd have to be always-connected. First off, no company would require that, even google. It cuts functionality and restricts the market a fuckton second, how many of you are connected to the internet 24/7 anyways, god damn it's being treated like someone's installing a surveillance camera with a 'do not touch' button on it in your bedroom. tech like that would kill profits from limiting the audience to paying for 4G service or finding a wifi hotspot in order to open their book up to play a game or write down some stuff in notepad. Same goes for the XBox panic everyone's having related to unconfirmed news sources constantly flailing around a red flag with the words "DRM DOOMSDAY" written on it[/QUOTE] The original Chromebooks had all of their base functionality available without internet access, and that includes apps and such that were previously downloaded. On regaining your connection, your system would sync and update whatever you had worked on or saved to the cloud server. It was a pretty fine system, honestly. The biggest flaw of the Chromebooks was how fragile they were. Dad nabbed two from work, and they had both kicked the dust in less than a year, and this was just as a result of regular work. They were never dropped or anything, the hardware just kind of pooted out after a while.

Does it run Android? If it did, I'd get it.

if i can install GNU+Linux, cool.

[QUOTE=Amiga OS;39504189]I hate that resotution with a passion.[/QUOTE]It was great in 2005, but people have moved on. I think they just use it as a cost cutting method.