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Chromebook Pixel is Microsoft's worst nightmare come true – and Apple's, too
- OGinparadise 14y agoChromebook Pixel is Microsoft's worst nightmare come true -- and Apple's, too Maybe one day. But certainly not on $1300-$1500 browsers. I got a WIN 7 Laptop for around $600 last year, 8GB of RAM, 1TB of hard-drive and use Photoshop, my decade old Windows programs and everything else I can think of with it. Now with Chrome one can browse the web--at just $900 more.
- hayksaakian 14y agoConveniently ignoring the hardware advantages is convenient. I like SSDs I like high PPI displays. I like glass touchpads. I like a metal body. I like free cloud storage.
- pistacchioso 14y agoConveniently ignoring that it's sold at the same price as the MacBook Pro retina 13'' is convenient.
- duaneb 14y agoThe touchscreen is everything. I would willingly pay double, triple for a touchscreen macbook pro.
- pistacchioso 14y agoreally? for the price i assume it's a computer for working. I can hardware imagine a single situation when i'm programming code / writing with a word processor / making music / creting graphics and I'd feel the need to dirty the vertical screen that's in front of me with a movement of the arm that gets me away from the keyboard and the mouse. Oh, let alone that I can hardly use a computer running Linux to work professionally in the graphics / music / media fields, but to each his own: maybe you like the idea of a 1300$ machine to surf the web and play angry bird, and it's not overpriced since it's not from Apple.
- duaneb 14y agoWell, it would be very useful making music and graphics, just off of the frustration I've felt with both of those ventures and a lack of touchscreen. But no, I just feel hate the disconnect between gestures and the screen: I always fumble them, to the point where the only "gesture" I have is scrolling. I should also point out that I only have one computer, not one for dev and one for play, so I really want a touchscreen and a keyboard.
- OGinparadise 14y agoand you do what with them? Browse the internet. Many of those features are available on Windows and Mac machines (you can actually work on them) at a cheaper price. So what's Chrome selling point? A $1300 brick unless you're online?
- nextstep 14y agoThat six degrees of desperation bullshit was cringe inducing. Edit: I meant separation, but desperation is funnier.
- GotAnyMegadeth 14y agoIf I ask any four people in my social circles if they have Chromebook, four of them will answer "What's a Chromebook?"