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Plenty of people already do this with the $250 Chromebook, and even iPad. The $1,299 isn't for the 32GB SSD. It's for the 239ppi 2:3 multitouch Gorilla Glass di
by Kerrick 14y ago
Plenty of people already do this with the $250 Chromebook, and even iPad. The $1,299 isn't for the 32GB SSD. It's for the 239ppi 2:3 multitouch Gorilla Glass display. It's for the 4GB of RAM. It's for the dual core Intel i5. It's for the impressively made aluminum chassis. It's for the 1TB of cloud storage. It's for everything a high-end cloud device should be.
- rayiner 14y agoIf you're logging on to a remote server to do development,you're not taking advantage of the dual core i5 or 4GB of RAM. You're logged into an image that's giving you maybe 1 GHz of CPU and 512MB of RAM. You're buying a $1,300 machine to do development on a $300 machine, over a shitty internet connection.
- codeka 14y agoIt depends what you're working on. If you're doing heavy client-side work (e.g. WebGL) then a beefy client is preferable to a beefy server. I agree though that I probably wouldn't buy this for development work. But I do think that browser's are still better on beefy hardware than on gimped hardware.
- wvenable 14y ago> If you're doing heavy client-side work (e.g. WebGL) Really? If you're the one person in the world doing heavy WebGL this might be the product for you.
- kevingadd 14y agoSorry, but if you're doing WebGL development, the last thing you want is a laptop with one of Intel's awful integrated GPUs.
- iso-8859-1 14y agoPlease qualify your claims with a statement saying that you actually developed on the Intel HD series. Intel graphics are not what they used to be.
- pyoung 14y agoBut if you also have ~20 tabs open in your browser, and are streaming music etc... I am doing a thin client setup of sorts, and by the end of the day things start slowing down quite a bit. I do agree that $1300 is too much, at that price range you might as well get a mac. If it was 600-800 i'd probably jump on it. However, I think the curve ball here is the touch screen. I'd be willing to bet that Google's strategy for this laptop is to do a smaller production run, and get these in the hands of tech/programmer types, and then use the lessons learned to develop a model targeted toward a wider audience.
- rayiner 14y ago> I'd be willing to bet that Google's strategy for this laptop is to do a smaller production run, and get these in the hands of tech/programmer types If that's the case, pull an Apple and ship great dev tools on the installation disk. As far as I can tell, there are no top-notch Chrome OS development tools, just various ways to remote into a real machine to do that work.
- Kerrick 14y agoChrome Developer Tools, built into Chrome and Chrome OS really are top-notch Chrome OS development tools... because everything runs in Chrome.
- rayiner 14y agoThey're toys compared to Visual Studio or XCode (or Emacs).
- reissbaker 14y agoPretty sure Square disagrees, and they know what they're talking about when it comes to XCode. See PonyDebugger, a tool they wrote to pipe iOS apps' network connections and debug information through Chrome to take advantage of the developer tools: https://github.com/square/PonyDebugger https://github.com/square/PonyDebugger Now, you'd never write code in the Chrome Developer Tools (except maybe the occasional one-liner in the REPL). But the Chrome Developer Tools are great — best in class even — for profiling, visualizing, and debugging.
- stcredzero 14y agoHow long will it be before the price of something like this is $650?
- LilValleyBigEgo 14y ago> It's for the impressively made aluminum chassis. So it's reasonable to pay more to have your computer in a biscuit tin.
- cube13 14y agoBut the OS is cloud based, so you don't need the processor power or the RAM. That's the entire point of ChromeOS.
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- brown9-2 14y agoWhat is the point of all that RAM though if you are using SSH?