Google Announces $1,299 Chromebook Pixel With 2560×1700px Touchscreen

Re:Google Announces $1,299 Chromebook Pixel With 2560×1700px... by mtgx on Thursday February 21, 2013 @03:13PM (#5260004)

I just think they are moving in the wrong direction between ChromeOS is for $200-$300 machines, not $1300 machines, no matter what extra specs they give it. Why buy such a powerful machine if you can't use Photoshop, IDE's or 3D games anyway?

But as a $250 web machine with 10h of battery life? Sure.

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Re:Google Announces $1,299 Chromebook Pixel With 2560×1700px... by SonicSoul on Thursday February 21, 2013 @05:35PM (#5261023)

probably because Google is looking into the future.

with the advent of technologies like WebGL a lot of apps can be moved into the browser. Including photo editing and 3D gaming.

If such apps are running in a browser, as non native code, this would call for good hardware specs. especially with such high resolutions.

seems reasonable to me.

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Re:Google Announces $1,299 Chromebook Pixel With 2560×1700px... by quaunaut on Thursday February 21, 2013 @09:00PM (#5262059)

Problem is, WebGL won't be worth a damn for 3d gaming for years to come. Hell, Chrome's Native Client is better than WebGL for that even now.

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Re:Google Announces $1,299 Chromebook Pixel With 2560×1700px... by dragonwriter on Thursday February 21, 2013 @06:10PM (#5261260)

> Why buy such a powerful machine if you can't use Photoshop, IDE's or 3D games anyway?

Web-based IDEs and 3D games exist that can be used with this (photo editors, too, though not Photoshop.)

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Re:Google Announces $1,299 Chromebook Pixel With 2560×1700px... by nicklovescode on Thursday February 21, 2013 @05:23PM (#5260932)

because the machine will be used to power photo editing software, IDEs, and 3D games

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