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Linus Torvalds is considering the Chromebook Pixel as his primary laptop
- sac2171 14y agoIs this a parody?
- largesse 14y agoSometimes I think this guy just wants to be controversial.
- tunnuz 14y agoWho cares?
- baq 14y agopeople who like hi-res displays care, because this guy might add some momentum to the push.
- rartichoke 14y agoYeah this for sure. We've been stuck with 1080p for so long. It's retarded to think that in the late 1990s we had 1600x1200 CRTs at 120hz and great color quality. Now it's almost 15 years later and 120hz isn't even main stream, color quality is worse and we traded some vertical for horizontal resolution. Wtf?
- millerm 14y agoExactly. It's just such arbitrary information.
- modeless 14y agoThe Chromebook Pixel is exactly the laptop he requested in a rant last year: https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/ByVPmsSeSEG https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/ByVPmsSe...
- ktsmith 14y agoI got a chance to use one this weekend and if it didn't have a cripplingly small SSD I'd swap out my 17" MBP for one.
- windsurfer 14y agoWhat do you need to store on the built-in drive that you couldn't store elsewhere?
- Nux 14y agoI could move, squeeze and compress my sh*t to fit in the tiny SSD, but not for this price, thank you. Are we going back in time?
- ktsmith 14y agoPart of the price is paying for the google drive allotment. That's great but I would rather have the local storage which I can get access to anywhere vs the cloud storage that I might not be able to reach.
- johne20 14y agoFor me the one thing that eats up space is my virtual machines for software testing. The other big driver is iMovie for editing videos, but I am sure I could do that elsewhere.
- ktsmith 14y agoAnything I might want to work on. My dev tools and repos + assets from other team members exceed 64GB of space. The only place I have enough bandwidth to work over the network is at home. A device that's primary function is a network device doesn't work where I'm at due to limited connectivity, data caps etc.
- mirsadm 14y agoSometimes I wonder if he didn't kick off the Linux kernel if he'd just be referred to as a troll.
- jlgreco 14y agoHow is he trolling in this instance?
- nonamegiven 14y agoShipping goes a long way.
- dubcanada 14y agoHuh? If some random guy didn't do something to make himself popular (considering he's really smart, if he didn't make Linux he would have still probably done something else massive) how would he be a troll? Your comment makes no sense... considering the only reason you/hn/whoever even reads his posts is because he's the Linux guy. If he wasn't nobody would even read it, and you can't troll nothing lol.
- JoshTriplett 14y agoI'd consider it too, if not for the size of the drive. Right now, unless something with a >1080p screen comes out, the ThinkPad Helix (https://www.lenovo.com/products/us/tablet/thinkpad/thinkpad-helix/ https://www.lenovo.com/products/us/tablet/thinkpad/thinkpad-...) will probably remain on the top of my list for when the warranty on my current laptop runs out. At least it has 1080p on a 12" screen, rather than making me choose between a 720p I don't mind carrying and a 1080p boat anchor.
- meaty 14y agoI can't see anything on a 1080p screen at 12" and considering my eyesight isn't all that bad, I imagine it's not going to sell for most people.
- rayiner 14y agoThey have these things called TrueType scalable fonts. Since like the late 1980s.
- JoshTriplett 14y agoOn any modern OS, resolution and text size have little to do with each other. If you can't see anything, turn up the DPI to match the actual DPI of your display, and any well-behaved application will become readable.
- artificialidiot 14y agoExcept the web likes to pretend everything is 96dpi. Reading my sentence again, I think we can agree CSS is not well behaved.
- JoshTriplett 14y agoI don't know about Chrome, but you can fix that misfeature in Firefox with a hidden preference, and tell it to actually respect the system DPI setting. Just go to about:config and set layout.css.dpi to 0.
- jaytaylor 14y agoMore info on the Chromebook Pixel[0][1] (in case other's missed the press launch like I did!): [0] http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebook-pixel/ http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebook-pixe... [1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/21/google-announces-1299-chromebook-pixel-with-2560x1700-32-12-85-touchscreen-core-i5-cpu-1tb-of-google-drive-storage-optional-lte/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/21/google-announces-1299-chrom...
- devy 14y agoIt seems that Linus was praising the screen of Chromebook Pixel particularly its resolution. Sorry if I am being ignorant here, but has Linus heard of Retina Display MacBook Pro? rMBP has roughly the same PPI as Google Chromebook Pixel and had been available for almost a year by now. And surely you can install Linux on it. *[1] [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MacBookPro_Retina https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MacBookPro_Retina
- viseztrance 14y ago> Suspend mode on lid close with nouveau and i915 (does not come out of suspend; blank screen). This makes ANY laptop useless.
- taproot 14y agoTrying to get on @ShitHNSays?
- loser777 14y agoThere used to be some high-res laptops(compared to what's popular today)at non-16:9 aspect ratios. Anyone remember the IBM T21? 1400x1050 (14.1")... in '00-01! I guess a combination of waning consumer demand due to OMG WIDESCREEN and corner-cutting brought 1366x768 to the forefront. Also, it's kind of funny that 1366x768 is not actually 16:9 anyway.
- jlgreco 14y ago1680x1050 was popular for a while about half a decade ago. Unfortunately it seems to have been primarily replaced with mostly 1366x768, not 1920x1080.
- hkmurakami 14y agoI went through all the links HN'ers have posted in this thread and I couldn't find the information so I have to beg the question: _Does it have a good keyboard??_ (Laptop keyboards seem to become worse as the years go on -- with the exception of macbooks and possibly Thinkpads -- and I'm really hoping that the Chromebook Pixel has a respectable keyboard) Some of the pictures on Google's site seem to suggest a macbook-like keyboard layout and profile so I'm hopeful that they're comparable.
- Cowen 14y agoI have no idea about the Pixel, but my Samsung Chromebook's keyboard feels just as good as my older Macbook Air's. The touchpad clicks really loudly, but the Pixel has a new glass touchpad so that might not be an issue anymore.
- robinh 14y agoWhat exactly counts as a good keyboard? I've never had any trouble with my XPS, and don't really see how one could mess up a laptop's keyboard (then again, I haven't had that many laptops). Although some of the cheaper laptop's keyboards seem clunky.
- hkmurakami 14y agoI have a Dell XPS from 2008 (now a tertiary machine) and some of its keys will get momentarily get "stuck" under the laptop chassis when returning from the compressed position. My parents have a Toshiba laptop from around 2011, and its keyboard is undescribably atrocious. Poor key layout (small keys & excessive space between keys), overly resistant and springy key dynamics, very slippery key surface, etc. The best laptop keyboard I've had was the late 90's ~ early 2000's IBM-era thinkpads.
- JoshTriplett 14y ago> and don't really see how one could mess up a laptop's keyboard "What's with this ~` key? Nobody uses that, and it offends my designer sensibilities." I had a Dell like that, and got used to typing $HOME and $(command) rather than ~ and `command`.
- recoiledsnake 14y agoInteresting aside: The post 'How I ended up with a Mac' by Miguel[1] got flagged off the front page while this post is zooming up the front page. Coincidence? http://hnrankings.info/5327247/ http://hnrankings.info/5327247/ [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5327247 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5327247
- dfc 14y agoHow do you know it was flagged? By the drop off in votes? I thought flagged stories got deleted/"dead"-ed. Are the stories that only show up with showdead different than stories that are flagged?
- JanezStupar 14y agoIt doesn't have a trackpoint. Pass.
- meaty 14y agoGood point. Not a ThinkPad. I'm rather worried about how Lenovo have gone all experimental. I still want an old fashioned black brick with a clitmouse.
- JanezStupar 14y agoI just want 15" a X1 Carbon with 2560 display.
- meaty 14y agoActually I think I want exactly that too :)
- jlgreco 14y agoExperimental thinkpads are okay with me. Might be nice to see a revisit of that butterfly keyboard on the 701 for instance... What really bugs me is thinkpads with shit screen resolution. Like, really shit, even compared to less heavy duty cheaper laptops. Thinkpads should not cut costs.
- meaty 14y agoI'm sitting in front of a 1280x800 14" unit here and am quite happy. I can't see the pixels thanks to TrueType in Windows. Retina/high DPI displays are no advantage for my combination of eyes and brain. I have a 22" 1920x1080 display on my desk which I rarely use as it gives me a headache.
- jlgreco 14y agoI miss the 1680x1050 15.6" thinkpads. Now they're selling 15.6" T-series that have a pathetic 1366x768 unless you want to spend 2-300 more for 1980x1080. I should not be able to get on Lenovo's site, look at the current T-series, think back to my (now half a decade old!) 2007 T60p, and be disappointed and underwhelmed. If cheaper less powerful computers are being sold with better screens than T-series thinkpads, there is something very wrong going on.
- liquidise 14y agoNice post but this line really got my attention: "...I can lug around this 1.5kg monster despite feeling fairly strongly that a laptop should weigh 1kg or less." Are there laptops with any respectable screen real-estate weighing in at < 1kg? My primary laptop is a 13" Air. 1kg is only 70% of its weight. I was unaware they got much lighter while sporting double digit screen sizes.
- hkmurakami 14y agoHe also mentions that the screen is larger than his needs, so presumably he prefers the 11" range for his laptops.
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- ziffusion 14y agoAnd in related news, he is also considering Cottonelle to wipe his ass.