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Google calls ‘time’ on the Pixel laptop
- crispytx 10y agoThey ought to buy Canonical and build a laptop with a full fledged operating system. Then I won't have to keep choosing between installing linux on crappy Windows machines or buying expensive macs.
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- tdb7893 10y agoHopefully with the windows subsystem for linux I can just have a cheap windows computer that works with linux tools.
- tbrock 10y agoIsnt the "Macs are expensive" meme getting old? The prices are actually very competitive and I'm not talking about vs upgrading the ram in your system 76 laptop.
- RugnirViking 10y agoNo it will continue to be used until the price is closer to the price of similar spec windows laptops. Where I live at the moment its anywhere from 2x to 1.5x the exact same components in a shell not made by apple
- kristjansson 10y agoI'd love to buy a competitive device that's 1/2-2/3 the price of a MacBook, but I've never seen one at that price point. The models that come up in these threads usually lack a quality screen, long battery life, durable construction, or good support for Linux / unix user land tools or some combination thereof. Linux subsystem for windows may be starting to address the last point, but I haven't had the chance to use it yet.
- rayiner 10y agoThe closest competitors, like the XPS series and the Surface Book, are nearly as much as a Mac or more. The closest XPS 13 to the bottom touchbar 13" MBP costs $150 more. Microsoft sells $2,000+ Surface Books with only 8GB of RAM.
- OrwellianChild 10y agoAm I doing this wrong? Looks like the XPS 13 with similar spec is $1,220 [1] vs. $1,800 [2] for the Macbook Touchbar? [1] https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01LQTXED8 https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01LQTXED8 [2] http://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro http://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro
- rayiner 10y agoI went to Dell.com: http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/productdetails/xps-13-9360-laptop/dncwt5122hv2 http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/productdetails/xps-13-9360-la....
- amalag 10y agoIt's true, the higher end windows laptops are very comparable to Macbook prices. People get confused because Macbook's are only high end and people see windows machine in a full range
- rasz_pl 10y agoThey would shut it down in a year after slowly realizing its not able to generate "acceptable" profit. Google is too rich to get the "small" below 1$Billion ideas right. They cant even manage to capitalize on their self driving cars, clearly a multi $billion dollar market.
- lenkite 10y agoYet another google product bites the dust. The first thing anyone buying a Google product or developing against a Google API should ask themselves - will it be there in another year ?
- cs02rm0 10y agoIt's weird, isn't it? They seem to be going from pillar to post, ditching products that may not set the world alight, but were surely never going to. Neither can they be dragging Google under. Meanwhile they're acquiring a reputation that will make it so much harder to launch new products.
- ceras 10y agoWhy does this matter for a single hardware product in an ecosystem? ChromeOS is still clearly being invested in. As a Pixel laptop owner I couldn't care less if they refresh the Pixel anytime soon.
- thrillgore 10y agoGoogle outpriced themselves with super cheap Chromebooks on the tail end as well.
- joerickard 10y agoFrom the title I was genuinely wondering if this was about a novel system time usage, or if they were killing the whole thing. Kind of a strange phrasing.
- emptythought 10y agoI wonder how long the 2nd gen will be supported now? they already dropped the first...