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The Chromebook Pixel is new in 2015, and is wonderful. ChromeOS is an excellent, rock-solid OS built on solid technical foundations.

emidln 11y ago
I'm typing this from a Pixel 2015 LS. ChromeOS is great if you're not a dev, and it's still pretty good if you do dev work on it. The problem isn't really ChromeOS (you can replace ChromeOS with Arch or Ubuntu with a little work), but that (judging from the G+ community) a lot of Pixel 2s have been RMA'd for flash disk and audio issues. If you get a good Pixel 2, it's an amazing machine. You might have to RMA it once or thrice to find that machine though. Tbh, I would pay an additional $500 to a company that cloned the hardware but offered at least a 512 GB hard disk. I've even give up the touch screen. I'd like a quad core Skylake upgrade while we're at it, but I'm not greedy, I just want a reasonable amount of disk. They could even price it at $2000 and I'd still buy it in a heartbeat. As is, I'm still using my Pixel 2 LS, albeit with a slimline USB key pseudo-permanently attached to provide extra space. Nothing else approaches the power and battery life of a Macbook Pro if I want fully supported hardware under Linux.
- wstrange 11y ago
  Google could sell a ton of Chromebook Pixels to developers if they would put a 512GB SSD in it. ChromeOS + Crouton + a decent SSD would make a killer development laptop.
  - phasmantistes 11y ago
    Honestly I use ChromeOS + SecureShell and connect to a workstation from wherever I am. No Crouton or SSD necessary.
    - rifung 11y ago
      Well unfortunately this requires that you don't make your laptop your main development machine. I prefer to have only one machine and that machine be my laptop, though I do understand wanting desktop.
      - mkozlows 11y ago
        Just use a Digital Ocean droplet or something; that's what I do, and it works well. I mean, not if you want graphical UIs, but if you're good with Vim and a command line...
    - shams93 11y ago
      Yeah I do this with my raspberry pi, edit with vim, for web applications the pi is plenty fast. I use the asus flip got it on sale for less than $200.
      - shams93 11y ago
        Which currently does the web fine but doesn't work for native android I have an intel machine for that stuff but for web development the pi is pretty sweet I run rails and node just fine on it with postgresql.
    - emidln 11y ago
      I spend a lot of time in places where I have no data access. I need local development capabilities. ChromeOS can do that via crouton, but data access from USB is very slow.

emidln 11y ago

I'm typing this from a Pixel 2015 LS. ChromeOS is great if you're not a dev, and it's still pretty good if you do dev work on it. The problem isn't really ChromeOS (you can replace ChromeOS with Arch or Ubuntu with a little work), but that (judging from the G+ community) a lot of Pixel 2s have been RMA'd for flash disk and audio issues. If you get a good Pixel 2, it's an amazing machine. You might have to RMA it once or thrice to find that machine though. Tbh, I would pay an additional $500 to a company that cloned the hardware but offered at least a 512 GB hard disk. I've even give up the touch screen. I'd like a quad core Skylake upgrade while we're at it, but I'm not greedy, I just want a reasonable amount of disk. They could even price it at $2000 and I'd still buy it in a heartbeat. As is, I'm still using my Pixel 2 LS, albeit with a slimline USB key pseudo-permanently attached to provide extra space. Nothing else approaches the power and battery life of a Macbook Pro if I want fully supported hardware under Linux.

wstrange 11y ago
Google could sell a ton of Chromebook Pixels to developers if they would put a 512GB SSD in it. ChromeOS + Crouton + a decent SSD would make a killer development laptop.
- phasmantistes 11y ago
  Honestly I use ChromeOS + SecureShell and connect to a workstation from wherever I am. No Crouton or SSD necessary.
  - rifung 11y ago
    Well unfortunately this requires that you don't make your laptop your main development machine. I prefer to have only one machine and that machine be my laptop, though I do understand wanting desktop.
    - mkozlows 11y ago
      Just use a Digital Ocean droplet or something; that's what I do, and it works well. I mean, not if you want graphical UIs, but if you're good with Vim and a command line...
  - shams93 11y ago
    Yeah I do this with my raspberry pi, edit with vim, for web applications the pi is plenty fast. I use the asus flip got it on sale for less than $200.
    - shams93 11y ago
      Which currently does the web fine but doesn't work for native android I have an intel machine for that stuff but for web development the pi is pretty sweet I run rails and node just fine on it with postgresql.
  - emidln 11y ago
    I spend a lot of time in places where I have no data access. I need local development capabilities. ChromeOS can do that via crouton, but data access from USB is very slow.