Chromebook Pixel announced

Sanchez said:
Wow, have you actually just compared a 3TB hard drive to cloud storage? Brilliant.
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What's your point?

Cloud storage is useful for things like documents that you can edit from anywhere, share with people etc but this can be done for free with something like dropbox. Having cloud storage for ALL your data sucks compared to storing it locally
 
cymatty said:
Yup, I also bet Google redundancy > our redundancy. :p
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Personally I trust myself more than Google to look after my stuff.

Btw when the 3 years runs out... then what? You have to settle for a puny 32GB, start spending $800 on storage each year or buy a whole new laptop? Ridiculous.
 
SheepBeast said:
Personally I trust myself more than Google to look after my stuff.

Btw when the 3 years runs out... then what? You have to settle for a puny 32GB, start spending $800 on storage each year or buy a whole new laptop? Ridiculous.
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Or click download all and save to the portable HD. ;):p
 
My point is that if you were aware of what you can do with cloud storage and how it can be used you'd realise that the suggestion of carrying round a 3TB hard drive with you all the time is 'brainless'
 
Engadget mention the sound is decent but nothing too spectacular. They seem to have paid particular attention noise reduction though, with a handful of mics placed over the casing.

Still looking for information regarding the hard drive, how easy it would be to upgrade etc.
 
Just seems like a self indulgent folly to me, a very expensive device that does a bunch of stuff badly. Google starting to believe their own publicity? Chrome OS didn't sell as a replacement for Netbooks because tablets (and android as well as ios) killed the market they designed it for before it took off, so now they try going for the other end of the market hoping to make it look desirable and "exclusive".

I can only imagine it's purely vanity and a reluctance to say "we misjudged it or the market has moved on" that prevents Google from burying what is fundamentlay a pointless OS, especially given Android's succcess.

As far as hardware is concerned, it's OK but nothing mind boggling for the price irrespective of the OS. There's always going to be someone daft enough to buy one though I suppose.

I'm all for innovation and as much as I generaly dislike Google as a company I can see the point and great work they've done with the Nexus devices but this just seems, odd. I genuinely wonder if it's a pet project of someone with enough sway in the company to drive it through despite concerns. I just really can't see a market for another OS, there's better options out there, including Android.
 
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What exactly can you do on a Chromebook? Can I install all my regular computer software and treat it as a laptop?

Or is it just a laptop for stuff like Angry Birds?
 
Ricochet J said:
What exactly can you do on a Chromebook? Can I install all my regular computer software and treat it as a laptop?

Or is it just a laptop for stuff like Angry Birds?
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What do you normally do on your laptop?

Order it by time spend doing that task and see if there is a suitable app.

If you play Crysis 3 on your laptop, then yes that isn't on Chrome OS.
 
What software do you need to install normally?
For the typical Chromebook, the cheap ones, it's there for what most people use their computers for 90% of the time. Browsing the web.

The Chrome webstore is starting to get some more items into it now, but like many of the previews/reviews pointed out, they need to get the hardware out there to get people developing for it.

It's not for everyone, and there is no way Chrome OS is ready for a device anywhere near £1000... I like that it exists though, hopefully it'll drive manufacturers to get some better Chromebooks out there over the next few months at reasonable prices.
 
The Verge review summed up the situation pretty well.

"Everyone should want a Chromebook Pixel — I certainly do. But almost no one should buy one.."

In terms of hardware it's up there with the Macbook, best on the market. But nobody should buy one.

I wonder if some people will get them to run linux on though.
 
Sumanji said:
Looks like bog standard PC Ultrabook hardware, so what's the problem?
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I think its not quite a normal PC, has different firmware kinda setup so it boots into Chrome quicker then a of the shelf machine can.

Would need someone to write a custom bootloader / UEFI implementation.
 
I believe, but could be wrong, that the chromebooks all run a non-windows compatible bios (removing a load of useless legacy stuff for boot time improvements I believe), so there's no way for that to load directly into Windows.

I guess you might be able to get a GRUB install setup just to boot windows, but I'd imagine anyone who had the ability and could be bothered to do that would just run Linux anyway...
 
I would grab this in a second if it had a media player that was as all encompassing as VLC.

This does everything I need a laptop to do apart from play media files.
 
Snax said:
I would grab this in a second if it had a media player that was as all encompassing as VLC.

This does everything I need a laptop to do apart from play media files.
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Storage is the issue for me, if I did get one of these I would put Ubuntu on it and use it as my dev machine main laptop and have my tower for gaming.
 
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