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It's anything even remotely close to $1000 I wouldn't go near it if it's running Chrome OS. I'm not paying a grand for a fancy browser case. Edit: to expand on
by jbigelow76 14y ago
It's anything even remotely close to $1000 I wouldn't go near it if it's running Chrome OS. I'm not paying a grand for a fancy browser case.
Edit: to expand on my comment a little. I thought the premise of Chrome OS was that except for specialized cases almost a "typical" user things could be moved to the cloud, eliminating the need for high powered machines and complex OSes that can fulfill various use cases, consequently the price drops dramatically. If Chrome OS is still limited to essentially web/cloud driven functionality what is the justification for the high price point?
- bodyfour 14y agoAll of the chromebooks so far have been able to run non-chromeos linux distros just fine. (The ARM-based ones require a little effort, but it's possible. I've got fedora/arm on a Samsung chromebook that I play around with) Hopefully that will be the case with this device as well. The 13" Retina MacBook Pro starts at $1700. We'll have to see what the final specs and pricing are for the Pixel but it could be very compelling. A high-DPI display is really a killer feature.
- dntrkv 14y agoSure, the default OS on this laptop may be limited, but that doesn't change the fact that the hardware is still that of a $1000+ laptop. Especially with that hi-res screen. And I'm sure if you really wanted to, you could install Ubuntu on it.
- millstone 14y agoThese devices are only sensible if the UI of the OS knows how to scale; otherwise everything is tiny. From a brief Google search, Ubuntu does not know how to scale (http://askubuntu.com/questions/231646/is-ubuntu-12-10-optimized-for-retina-displays http://askubuntu.com/questions/231646/is-ubuntu-12-10-optimi...) so I don't think you would want to run Ubuntu on this.