Chromebook Pixel announced

It looks awesome but that price... Did not expect it to be so high! Thought maybe £600/700, not over £1000!
Really like ChromeOS, would lovr someone to release a "good" Chromebook. 1366x768 needs to die, if they could get a reasonable priced laptop out with ChromeOS, and a decent screen, I'd buy immediately!
 
This is the daftest release ive seen for a long time, been reading and still cant fathom the price on this thing, or indeed what its meant to offer in term of OS to users to warrent the price.
 
I think it's more of a statement by Google saying "hey, we can do high end hardware too". I doubt they expect many people to actually buy them. They are probably trying to break the mindset that Chromebooks will always be cheap. I also think this gives a glimpse of how Android/Chromebooks may converge in the future - it's no secret that the Chrome team have been working on a touch interface.

For these reasons I'm not taking the Chromebook Pixel too seriously.
 
Robbo said:
Seems like a fairly poor attempt at using a 'DPI buzzword' to charge over the odds for something.
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I'm not seeing any buzzwords.

Have you gotten mixed up with Apple? They're the ones who go as far as even trademarking their buzzwords lol :D

This product clearly isn't designed for the mass market. It's simply a demonstration to highlight the following things:

  • You don't need "Retina" to have high DPI
  • You don't need "FaceTime" to have a HD webcam
  • ... and so on with the active noise cancellation, machined aluminium, hidden vents, glass multi-touchpad, WiFi radio arrays etc...


It must be in response to that latest ridiculous advert where Apple had active noise cancellation as their USP. It's immensely funny when Apple uses mundane and sometimes ancient technologies to promote their products, and it's even funnier when their competitors have been doing it for almost seven years (in regards to ANC), but when their fanboys see it in the advert they're like "OMG GENIUS...INNOVATION..." :D
 
It's an interesting turn and I can understand the experiment. I just don't understand why they want Chrome apps to be successful in their own right. It creates two confusing Google app ecosystems.

What should happen is Chrome OS should be converging with Android in some capacity essentially making it the laptop/desktop version of Android and the Chrome/Play store infrastructure should be one and the same.

When you actually factor in the specs and clear quality of this product the price isnt actually bad. It's the severely limited OS that makes it impossible to be seen as a viable purchase.
 
scrlk said:
Why pay more for an arguably worse machine (gimped specs and OS) just for a 'OMG SUPER HIGHRES SCREEN!1111 RETINA' display. I mean it's nice, but is it worth the price premium?
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Not for me it isn't. Isn't value for money.

I suspect if this was £800, the comments in this thread would be the same.

This is cheap for someone who wants cloud storage.
 
mjones1 said:
The question is how many people need 1TB cloud storage, I know this isn't aimed at the masses but come on google!
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How many are happy that after a few years they get landed with having to pay a monthly price for that "storage".

Whole thing seems ludicrous, if ANY other company released this their would be a scat storm all over the place.
 
mjones1 said:
The question is how many people need 1TB cloud storage, I know this isn't aimed at the masses but come on google!
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It's a limit. You don't have to use all of it, you can use as much as you need or can afford.

Just like when Gmail came out and started offering gigabytes of storage at a time when email providers were limited to 20-100MB. The point was that they wanted to eradicate space constraints as a mode of email management. In other words they wanted you to manage your emails the way you want, and not because you thought "Oh **** this old email is 14MB, bin".

As I said before, this is whole thing is a demonstration more than anything. Call it a Beta.
 
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asim18 said:
As I said before, this is whole thing is a demonstration more than anything. Call it a Beta.
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That's probably the most accurate statement on this thread.

Mk 2 will have a proper battery life, lower price tag, and better integration with Android.

Then people will buy them.
 
cu3ed said:
How many are happy that after a few years they get landed with having to pay a monthly price for that "storage".

Whole thing seems ludicrous, if ANY other company released this their would be a scat storm all over the place.
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Macro said:
Paraphrasing Tom Warren:- Can you imagine if Microsoft had released a massively thick, heavy Surface laptop running Windows RT without even a customised touch based UI for £1000???? There'd be outrage!
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No they wouldn't, they'd just say "lol, what a stupid price", the same as they are now :confused:.
 
I wish I could believe that, if MS brought something like this out their would now be articles on the usual blogs asking all kinds of questions about MS's demise, how badly their thinking must be, questioning all the design team and in the end blaming it on Baller with some half hint that they need to get rid of him.
 
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