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This is a marketing/branding thing Google is starting this year. It isn't that the hardware is newer, it is that Google is trying to draw a line in the sand bet
by agloe_dreams 3y ago
This is a marketing/branding thing Google is starting this year. It isn't that the hardware is newer, it is that Google is trying to draw a line in the sand between the $159 machines and the $400 machines. Machines with a less than Core i3/Ryzen 7000 won't be branded as such, even if they come out next year. They want a buyer to walk into a store and see A $159 Chromebook and a $400 Chromebook Plus and have and idea that the money goes somewhere and gives you 'more'.
- toast0 3y agoSeems like it makes it easier to send your low-needs user shopping on their own. Hey, get a chromebook+, rather than having to go with them or find out where they're shopping and give them a list of ok models to buy. There have always been chromebooks with better or worse choices of hardware. This selection is certainly good. Personally, I don't shy away from Intel's mainstream core Pentium/Celeron either especially in generations where the core count is the same as i3. But Intel also sells Pentium/Celeron branded atom-series chips that I avoid because of past experience with sluggish systems and reports that they're harder to get 3rd party firmware for (once ChromeOS updates stop happening, I want to be able to put something else on these, if the thing still works)
- agloe_dreams 3y agoThe good thing is that Intel will probably help here. The 15th gen CPUS are branded as Intel Processor, Intel Core Processor, and Intel Core Ultra Processor. In this: Intel Processor -> Atom, Pentium, Celeron Core -> i3, i5 Core Ultra -> i7, i9 You can just say 'buy the Core CPU, no numbers, no other words'
- pjmlp 3y agoFor $400, I get a regular laptop.
- dsr_ 3y agoBut then you would have to install your OS yourself! The horror!