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>I think it is purely amazing the specs for that price. The display specs are amazing, but storage is a paltry 32GB so I guess it's compensated there.

ConstantineXVI 14y ago
All but one previous Chromebook has shipped with 16 (exception being the Acer, which uses an ordinary HDD), and the amount is almost entirely a non-issue for normal use. Which would add to my theory ChromeOS could be moving past the "just a browser" paradigm it's been going with all this time.
yuxt 14y ago
They also provide "One terabyte of Google Drive cloud storage, free for 3 years"
- rayiner 14y ago
  ... which you will pay your ISP out the nose to access.
- nwh 14y ago
  It would cost me $20,000 to transfer that amount of data over 3G, and almost ten times that on another common carrier. The amount of "cloud" storage is irrelevant in most countries.
  - Evbn 14y ago
    WiFi....
    - nwh 14y ago
      An even more unfriendly prospect: at a typical Australian upload speed of 100kB/s, it would take 2982 hours (124.5 days) to upload enough data to fill the drive. At this point, most people would have given up and bought a laptop with a decent amount of storage.
- pifflesnort 14y ago
  I need 1TB of fast storage, not on the other end of an internet connection, especially given that the cloud provider (or anyone that gains access to the cloud provider) can read my data.
- NateDad 14y ago
  I don't have to start paying a monthly charge on my HD to access my stuff after 3 years....
  - MatthewPhillips 14y ago
    Instead you get to get to copy it over to your new machine, or forget and lose it. Convenience costs money.
  - brewdad 14y ago
    But you very well might be replacing that hard drive after 3 years when it fails.
- threedaymonk 14y ago
  I just calculated that I'd have to saturate my (normal-for-UK) ADSL uplink for 7 months to upload a terabyte. I envy anyone who can actually make use of that.

ConstantineXVI 14y ago

All but one previous Chromebook has shipped with 16 (exception being the Acer, which uses an ordinary HDD), and the amount is almost entirely a non-issue for normal use. Which would add to my theory ChromeOS could be moving past the "just a browser" paradigm it's been going with all this time.

yuxt 14y ago

They also provide "One terabyte of Google Drive cloud storage, free for 3 years"

rayiner 14y ago
... which you will pay your ISP out the nose to access.
nwh 14y ago
It would cost me $20,000 to transfer that amount of data over 3G, and almost ten times that on another common carrier. The amount of "cloud" storage is irrelevant in most countries.
- Evbn 14y ago
  WiFi....
  - nwh 14y ago
    An even more unfriendly prospect: at a typical Australian upload speed of 100kB/s, it would take 2982 hours (124.5 days) to upload enough data to fill the drive. At this point, most people would have given up and bought a laptop with a decent amount of storage.
pifflesnort 14y ago
I need 1TB of fast storage, not on the other end of an internet connection, especially given that the cloud provider (or anyone that gains access to the cloud provider) can read my data.
NateDad 14y ago
I don't have to start paying a monthly charge on my HD to access my stuff after 3 years....
- MatthewPhillips 14y ago
  Instead you get to get to copy it over to your new machine, or forget and lose it. Convenience costs money.
- brewdad 14y ago
  But you very well might be replacing that hard drive after 3 years when it fails.
threedaymonk 14y ago
I just calculated that I'd have to saturate my (normal-for-UK) ADSL uplink for 7 months to upload a terabyte. I envy anyone who can actually make use of that.