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This is actually a good reason to go with a 3rd-party manufacturer. Almost all non-Google Chromebooks include microSD card slots, so you can get another 128GB o

This is actually a good reason to go with a 3rd-party manufacturer. Almost all non-Google Chromebooks include microSD card slots, so you can get another 128GB of persistently-mounted executable flash for large builds and similar. Google does not want you to use microSD cards. Google wants you to use Google Drive.

EddieRingle 9y ago
My Chromebook Pixel LS has an SD card slot. It wouldn't be a surprise if this one also has one.
- leggomylibro 9y ago
  Oh, nice! It would be great to see them reversing that trend.
- anjbe 9y ago
  Unfortunately, it’s on an internal USB 2 bus, which makes SD access extreme slow. All the external USB ports are at least 3.0, so I use a slim 64GB flash drive.
  - leggomylibro 9y ago
    Huh, that's king of a weird decision, but I guess it is probably going to be near the USB connectors on the board, anyways. I guess that probably means it's falling back to a normal SPI interface instead of the faster quad-SPI MMC interface? Maybe they don't want to spend one of their chip's QSPI peripherals on storage expansion.