The Chromebook Pixel

Re:The Chromebook Pixel by bitcartel on Thursday February 21, 2013 @02:49PM (#5259762)

Where are the real specs? Google have gone and copied what Apple do, and just dumped marketing blurb everywhere.

"Intel® Core™ i5 Processor (Dual Core 1.8GHz)" - What's the model number? There are numerous Core i5 processors and their performance varies, which one am I getting? http://www.cpubenchmark.net/laptop.html

32 GB SSD - What kind of read/write speed? Standard SATA or mSATA interface?

4 GB DDR3 RAM - Is the RAM soldered or user upgradeable? How many ram slots? What's the maximum capacity?

Perhaps I'm in the minority, but at that price, I do actually want to know if I'm buying an appliance or a computer.

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Re:The Chromebook Pixel by wmf on Thursday February 21, 2013 @03:31PM (#5260155)

Chromebooks are definitely appliances.

I only found two current Dual Core 1.8GHz i5s: http://ark.intel.com/search/advanced/?s=t&FamilyText=3rd...

The SSD specs don't matter because you can't run anything that would stress it and officially it's not replaceable.

Likewise, RAM is officially not upgradeable/replaceable.

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Re:The Chromebook Pixel by bitcartel on Thursday February 21, 2013 @04:07PM (#5260381)

That's a shame. I'm sure quite a few people were interested in putting Linux onto the machine.

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Re:The Chromebook Pixel by Evbn on Thursday February 21, 2013 @10:26PM (#5262387)

Are you certain these are 3rd gen core chips?

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Re:The Chromebook Pixel by rplnt on Friday February 22, 2013 @05:32AM (#5263638)

Probably not since they are using some old chipset.

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