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Surely a majority of people buying this won't be running the actual Chromebook system on it? What application can you even run on that system that would use 8Gi

Surely a majority of people buying this won't be running the actual Chromebook system on it? What application can you even run on that system that would use 8GiB of RAM and an i5? And last I checked, you couldn't even run Skype on it, so I mean I just come up pretty much empty for the set of people willing to run Chromebook the OS and buy a 1k machine to do it. Since Chromebook is Linux under the hood, they'll presumably have the driver situation down. So this makes for a very nice Linux system.

dragonwriter 12y ago
> Surely a majority of people buying this won't be running the actual Chromebook system on it? "Chromebook" is the hardware device. ChromeOS is the operating system. > What application can you even run on that system that would use 8GiB of RAM and an i5? Is there an upper limit to the RAM or CPU a browser-based application can use?
xnxn 12y ago
> couldn't even run Skype on it Hangouts?
- nfoz 12y ago
  ... would be fine until I want to talk to my mother, who uses Skype. And then it would feel strangely limiting to not be able to do that on my $999 computer.
  - xnxn 12y ago
    Whoops, I misread the post above and thought they were using Skype/video chat as an example of a computationally intensive application. My bad!
fizzbatter 12y ago
Sure, many of the people buying this won't be running ChromeOS.. but then they shouldn't really be complaining that it doesn't fit their needs. A Chromebook is not a general purpose device, it was specifically designed for a narrow use case, ChromeOS. The fact that you can do something else with it, does not mean it was designed for that. I'm not going to buy a vehicle designed for hauling freight, and complain that it isn't sporty enough. Which, in my opinion, is what complaining about the lack of storage in a "Webbook" is like. You're buying a device, specifically tailored and designed for people who are using a web based operating system. It doesn't even let you install things by default, outside of web apps.
mark-r 12y ago
I just bought more RAM for my PC because the 4GB I had wasn't enough for all the tabs I keep open in Chrome. Every time I switch to a tab that wasn't open for a while it would swap like mad and become unresponsive.

dragonwriter 12y ago

> Surely a majority of people buying this won't be running the actual Chromebook system on it? "Chromebook" is the hardware device. ChromeOS is the operating system. > What application can you even run on that system that would use 8GiB of RAM and an i5? Is there an upper limit to the RAM or CPU a browser-based application can use?

xnxn 12y ago

> couldn't even run Skype on it Hangouts?

nfoz 12y ago
... would be fine until I want to talk to my mother, who uses Skype. And then it would feel strangely limiting to not be able to do that on my $999 computer.
- xnxn 12y ago
  Whoops, I misread the post above and thought they were using Skype/video chat as an example of a computationally intensive application. My bad!

fizzbatter 12y ago

Sure, many of the people buying this won't be running ChromeOS.. but then they shouldn't really be complaining that it doesn't fit their needs. A Chromebook is not a general purpose device, it was specifically designed for a narrow use case, ChromeOS. The fact that you can do something else with it, does not mean it was designed for that. I'm not going to buy a vehicle designed for hauling freight, and complain that it isn't sporty enough. Which, in my opinion, is what complaining about the lack of storage in a "Webbook" is like. You're buying a device, specifically tailored and designed for people who are using a web based operating system. It doesn't even let you install things by default, outside of web apps.

mark-r 12y ago

I just bought more RAM for my PC because the 4GB I had wasn't enough for all the tabs I keep open in Chrome. Every time I switch to a tab that wasn't open for a while it would swap like mad and become unresponsive.