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I bought the original Chromebook Pixel when it was new for something like $1.3k. At the time, I believed this the best way to get a slim laptop with a high re
by wearywanderer 5y ago
I bought the original Chromebook Pixel when it was new for something like $1.3k. At the time, I believed this the best way to get a slim laptop with a high resolution screen and good linux support. Debian did run well on it, as I expected, but I soon came to regret the purchase and will never buy hardware from Google again.
EDIT:
It lost audio about 3 or 4 months after it was out of warranty, both out of the speakers and headphone jack. Left speaker failed first, then the right, then the headphone jack. I can only assume it was some sort of hardware fault, since sound no longer worked in ChromeOS either (and HDMI audio continued working in both). But good fucking luck getting such a thing fixed on a product like that from a company like that. Now I have a Dell XPS with a 1080p screen, which is good enough, particularly considering Dell has a much better reputation for support/repairs.
- thekyle 5y agoWhy did you regret the purchase?
- wearywanderer 5y agoMy edit includes some details. Basically, the warranty was too short and when audio (except HDMI out) broke, I couldn't get it fixed. There was also the matter of the secure boot nonsense, where if you press the wrong key on boot, secure mode would be re-enabled. With secure boot re-enabled, the only image that would boot would be a ChromeOS installation image, which would wipe your linux install. So you couldn't re-flip that secure boot bit without losing your linux installation. This bit me once, before I got better about regular backups..
- discordance 5y agoMy chromebook pixel from 2013 stopped receiving OS updates a few years ago. My MacBook Pro from 2012 still receives updates and works a charm.