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Intel-based Chromebooks
- nubela 13y agoAll i want is a Chromebook Pixel with Haswell and a bigger storage (at least 128GB), and I'll have my perfect *nix laptop.
- drivebyacct2 13y agoI'm disappointed to say that I miss Magsafe and the slant as much as I expected. Otherwise I completely agree. Once you go retina, you can't go back. (For those that may wonder, I have to rmmod/modprobe a chromeos_laptop module after boot, but everything else works perfectly out of the box. Just bump up the font size or DPI in KDE and you're good to go.)
- jlgreco 13y agoI think the extent to which the Chromebook Pixel is currently compelling as something to run a regular linux distro on is the extent to which the Chromebook Pixel is currently unmatched among other laptops (greater DPI and cheaper than the 13" Pro Retina. Worse otherwise, but if your priority is the screen...). Hopefully you won't have to wait for the next Chromebook Pixel, but will be able to buy a more 'regular' laptop with a similar screen in the near future. I think high-dpi screens are posed to make a big impact on the market. @drivebyacct2 "(For those that may wonder, I have to rmmod/modprobe a chromeos_laptop module after boot" I had that problem earlier, but it resolved itself with a new kernel (3.10.11 iirc) and config. If you want I can pastebin my config when I get home, but I think the only relevant change I made is I stopped building chromeos_laptop (and dependencies) as a module. I think the root cause was something about the order or timing of the touchpad and I2C stuff being brought online.
- rjzzleep 13y agoi find the galago pro very interesting. 14" full hd. quad core haswell for 1000 usd(well more for me because of ssd, ram etc). unfortunately, 4 hours of battery life just doesn't cut it for me. and 14" might almost be a tad too big. but otherwise it looks like an amazing device.
- jlgreco 13y ago1080p at laptop sizes just isn't something I can get excited about in a world where 1080p cellphones are seemingly becoming the new normal.
- reedlaw 13y agoI want a Chromebook for my next Linux laptop for another reason as well: coreboot. Now if they'd only open the firmware drivers...
- dabernathy89 13y agoAs long as it comes with increased battery life (as it should). I won't buy a new laptop until I can get one with real all-day battery life - and right now the main two options for that are the new Macbook Airs and the Sony Vaio Pro 13 (with the sheet battery). If the Pixel can pull that off, I'll add it to my list of contenders.
- untog 13y agoRetina displays have a terrible effect on battery life. Right now, for me, battery life will always win out.
- krasin 13y agoA battery can be recharged, but not the eyes. It might be just my personal experience, but I now have less eye pain in the end of a working day than before, after moving to a high-ppi display.
- lucian1900 13y agoI've found Macbook Airs have excellent battery life. The hardware is pretty nice too.
- harrytuttle 13y agoLenovo already sell one of them :)
- dmooray 13y agoAny news on a Thinkpad with Haswell and a very high pixel density?
- aray 13y agoSo what you really like about the Pixel is the display and touchscreen? Or more than that (design? OS?)
- Jacqued 13y agoI think it comes down to the display which really is still unmatched to this day (resolution and aspect ratio of 3:2, which is a very rare sight), proper design and lasting battery life.
- johnbender 13y agoIt looks like you can sign up for information updates on the new HP and Acer Chromebooks on the devices page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebooks.html http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebooks.htm...
- hayksaakian 13y agoGood sign for anyone wanting to run OSX on a chromebook. The current line of ARM processors has been a major roadblock thus far.
- rbanffy 13y agoActually, most Chromebooks are Intel-based and ARM based ones are relatively recent
- hayksaakian 13y agoWhile you're correct, the celeron processor was about as good as they got -- which won't take you very far on OSX
- natch 13y ago"Something for everyone" where everyone includes Google, the NSA, your future ex-wife and her lawyers, the Chinese Public Security Bureau, and any behavioral tracking advertising networks or other businesses Google cares to partner with. I'll stick with non-cloud-based computing for now.
- harrytuttle 13y agoYou nailed it there. And before someone says it, no "I'll stick Ubuntu on it" isn't a valid answer to the problem as you're still supporting them by buying it.
- pearjuice 13y agoUbuntu is non-FOSS so it isn't a valid answer anyway.
- Widdershin 13y agoJust wondering, what makes Ubuntu not FOSS?
- Pengwin 13y agoI think the FSF explain it best: http://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html#Ubuntu http://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html#Ubuntu Mainly, non-free software repositories, and the amazon integration in unity.
- Widdershin 13y agoThanks for that link. The fact that they provide a version that only contains FOSS repos makes me think that calling Ubuntu non-FOSS a bit of an overstatement. That Amazon thing seems a bit icky, though.
- PanMan 13y agoWhen I was in a local electronics shop a few weeks ago, they already had x86 chromebooks (along with the ARM Samsung version). So what's the news here?
- Touche 13y agoThat they are releasing new ones.
- georgemcbay 13y agoThe news (which is admittedly kind of buried in the wall of text) is they are releasing new Chromebooks from many manufacturers based on Intel's newer Haswell microarchitecture.
- wasd 13y agoSince OEMs don't have to pay the M$ tax, how much more profitable is a chromebook?
- wmf 13y agoDoesn't crapware more than offset the tax, making Windows "better than free"? OTOH, Google may be giving kickbacks for Chrome OS as well.
- harrytuttle 13y agoPerhaps the NSA are giving Google kickbacks as well... To the downvoters, this was supposed to be sarcastic :)
- untog 13y agoAs wmf says, the motivating factor of a "M$" tax is a myth. Windows laptops come with bundled software that more than makes up for the license cost. You hate it and I hate it, but the vast majority tolerate it.
- pjmlp 13y agoNo thanks. I rather user proper computers with usable OS.
- MrMeker 13y agoAs an owner of an Intel Chromebook, the Acer C7, I really do enjoy it. It is a bit limited, but for $200, it is a great deal. I have a chroot installed where I can do anything I can't do with the vanilla ChromeOS, and I am strongly considering upgrading the RAM. I don't think I will buy the full 16GB this thing supports. I could also upgrade the storage, 16GB is getting a little tight.
- scuba7183 13y agoHow easy is it to upgrade the RAM and storage? Are they easily accessible?
- blinkingled 13y agoRAM on the C7 is a piece of cake to upgrade. Ssd on the other hand takes few more screw turns but is easy nonetheless. With a 9mm SSD the back cover doesn't fit flush but 7mm should be better.
- devx 13y agoWindows-based ultrabooks are selling slowly as it is, and Google thinks $1,000+ ChromeOS devices will sell better? They really should stick to ARM-based $250 Chromebooks. But this time please put at least a 10" tablet-battery, not a 7" tablet battery inside the Chromebook.
- bnolsen 13y agoPretty much all of the existing ARM socs out there suck majorly for gpu support. I really believe Bay Trail will shove arm out of the chromebook/netbook market just because people will be able to tinker with the thing. As much as I had been rooting for arm a few years ago I'm totally soured on the utter crap support situation. If ARM starts bleeding market it will totally be on their own shoulders for not doing anything about the closed drivers situation.
- dragonwriter 13y agoGoogle doesn't need them to outsell similarly specced Windows machines for it to be a win. And neither do the OEMs.
- bnolsen 13y agoI really expect the "netbook" category to bump again now that Bay Trail has been released. Finally an actual speed bump in the atom family after all these years! One positive is that with chromeos being more stable and backed by google should be able to seriously take on windows in this category unlike the mess with linux when the first netbooks were released.
- jemeshsu 13y agoIf I were HP, Acer, Asus or Toshiba, I'd release one with enough storage and ram, and easy boot to Ubuntu/Mint.
- rodolphoarruda 13y ago...and without any form of preinstalled crapware those vendors insist to push on us.
- msoad 13y agoMy friend's mom has a ChromeBook. She doesn't know what is an OS or even what is a browser. They are actual ChromeBook customers. At least for now.
- jlgreco 13y agoWhen I used ChromeOS for a weekend I concluded that I couldn't recommend it to my mother because support for playing (arbitrary format) videos and browsing pictures off portable harddrives was really lacking (in the case of pictures, it could do it obviously, but with a worse user experience than windows by far). Probably 25% of what my mother does with her computer is hook it up to her cameras and show her friends her pictures. I think that Google has been neglecting the non-intensive tasks that people still perform on their computers locally, not through a webbrowser. Not supporting Crysis, SolidWorks, Microsoft Office, or Eclipse... that is all fine, regular users don't really need that sort of stuff. Not supporting something with the functionality of VLC or a good image browser seems like a big oversight. Those sorts of tasks could be done well with ChromeOS, with their programming model and in that form-factor, but from what I have seen that stuff just isn't ready.
- notatoad 13y agothat use-case specifically contradicts the whole motivation for chromeOS though. you shouldn't be opening a file browser to play things off a hard drive. if you want to share a video with friends, you should upload it to google+. in fact, chromeOS does this automatically for you - install the google+ photos app, and it will copy any photos off an inserted SD card to your private "ready to share" google+ storage.
- habosa 13y agoI LOVE my ARM Chromebook. For $250 it's one of the best gadgets I have ever owned (in a class with my Kindle and the original moto Droid). I am very excited for the possibility of the same machine with a Haswell processor. My only complaint with the ARM machine is that its JavaScript performance could be better (it's tablet-level).
- jerrya 13y agoBut Google, can't you please make us a Chromebook that can use a Nexus 10 or similar device as a second screen?
- aray 13y agoWhat's your use-case for this? It's particularly striking because the Nexus 10 has the same processor as the ARM chromebook, so anything you could run on the chromebook you could conceivably just run on the Nexus 10 as well.
- notatoad 13y agoIf either of those new chromebooks are better than 1366x768, i'm sold.
- aphexairlines 13y ago"the large display on the HP Chromebook14" A 14-inch screen not large for a laptop.
- GameOfTrolls 13y agoHow do I disable the NSADaemon service?