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What's really curious is that in a way it's up against Raspberry Pi, but literally an order of magnitude more expensive. Obviously it's more powerful, but . . .
by fidotron 14y ago
What's really curious is that in a way it's up against Raspberry Pi, but literally an order of magnitude more expensive. Obviously it's more powerful, but . . .
They really need to get the cost of the Chrome devices way down from where they are.
- georgemcbay 14y agoThe Raspberry Pi is pretty neat but good luck using it as a general purpose HTML5-display box. Way too slow for that. I agree that the cost of Chrome devices needs to be lower, but they need to be priced closer to midrange Android tablets (~250-300$) than Raspberry Pis.
- wavephorm 14y agoIt does have an h264 chip which might make HTML5 video usable.
- mtgx 14y agoRPi is good for video, but I think he meant overall browsing performance. RPi will be pretty slow at that.
- fidotron 14y agoYes, I think aiming for RPi equivalence would be extreme! That said, it would be curious to see what kind of processor ends up being optimal for HTML5 content. It's not completely inconceivable that architectures will end up being tuned for JS execution.
- mmahemoff 14y agoChromebox/book is at the opposite end of the spectrum from Raspberry PI though in terms of who it's targeting and the problem it's solving.