Comments on: Google Announces the Chromebook Pixel, No We Aren’t Trolling You

By: JoshHenry

JoshHenry — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 06:36:00 +0000

I like the way you put this. Well played.

By: Justin Swanson

Justin Swanson — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:14:00 +0000

No… we were just joking. I don’t think the LTE really drove up the price. This is a premium product at a premium price. Google is testing the waters here. Unfortunately, I think they forgot that Chrome OS isn’t as powerful as a full operating system and the sales will reflect that… However the 1TB space in Google Drive is appealing…

By: Justin Swanson

Justin Swanson — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 23:18:00 +0000

You aren’t shopping at the right stores, my dental floss costs me at least $499.99, otherwise it’s just not worth buying… /s

By: Cowboydroid

Cowboydroid — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 21:12:00 +0000

It has more specs because it needs it. Chromebooks don’t need super duper hardware to run fast.

By: angermeans

angermeans — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 06:26:00 +0000

And how do you know it’s functional? People share up and Down the rMBP struggles with integrated graphics and that has a lot more horsepower than this. 4gb of ram, i5 with integrated graphics, and only a 32 or 64 ssd. I would be very surprised if it doesn’t struggle at times to USB all those pixels around.

By: angermeans

angermeans — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 06:22:00 +0000

Actually for about the same price you can get a 13″ retina mBP that has a lot more to offer in the spec dept and is a full functioning PC. I love the idea and it looks nice but the only reasons people are buying chromebooks now is one the low price and two if they are a google fan. I don’t even see this fitting even into the fan part and the price people will get a much better laptop eleswhere.

By: Jim H

Jim H — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 17:29:00 +0000

That’s no defense at all. Dental floss also does exactly what it is designed to do, but you don’t see people lining up to buy gorgeous little $450 spools of it, do you?

By: mechapathy

mechapathy — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 01:37:00 +0000

Ah, did not know that. Doesn’t mean it’s impossible, but without a high rate of adoption it does mean that devs might not have a strong focus on this device.

By: jab416171

jab416171 — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 22:36:00 +0000

Windows was possible on the cr48 because you could flash a real BIOS on it. They don’t use UEFI, they use their own custom boot loader.
http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/disk-format#TOC-Google-Chrome-OS-devices

By: brando56894

brando56894 — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:34:00 +0000

Replace “Install Windows” with “Install Linux”.

By: brando56894

brando56894 — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:31:00 +0000

The Chromebooks probably use UEFI (it has to have something to initialize the hardware before ChromeOS loads). Windows Vista (?), Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows RT/Pro all support UEFI.

By: Cowboydroid

Cowboydroid — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:18:00 +0000

What isn’t functional about it? It does exactly what it’s designed to do. Maybe it’s YOU who isn’t functional.

By: Cowboydroid

Cowboydroid — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:18:00 +0000

With half the screen resolution.

By: Captain_Doug

Captain_Doug — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:44:00 +0000

I was just guessing. It’s around 20-30GB after installing windows AND all the key programs. ;D

By: Jeff Tycz

Jeff Tycz — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:32:00 +0000

uhh did you even look at the specs?? you actually have a hard drive to put stuff on, usb 3.0, little bigger screen,double the ram and an OS that does more than just browse the web