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

Re:Google Announces $1,299 Chromebook Pixel With 2560×1700px... by fatbird on Thursday February 21, 2013 @03:47PM (#5260257)

I was reacting to "coders obviously can't use this machine" because coders, with SSH and a nice IDE that fits into the environment, obviously can use this machine. As others have observed, you're not buying this for the processor, you're buying it for the large, high-res touchscreen, aluminum body, built-in LTE, and light weight. If you want raw CPU and hard drive space, you'll get a Mac. I don't think screen-and-body is an invalid reason, either, to pay a premium. When you use a tool all day, the surface quality, the experiential quality, makes a difference. I've never really understood being cheap with something that you're going to look at and touch 6-10 hours a day for 3-4 years, on average.

That said, yes, brackets is immature, but fairly brightly points to a future where a browser OS like ChromeOS is more than sufficient for a really wide variety of use-cases.

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Re:Google Announces $1,299 Chromebook Pixel With 2560×1700px... by taligent on Thursday February 21, 2013 @04:04PM (#5260363)

Do you realise how completely ridiculous and illogical you sound ?

  > I've never really understood being cheap with something that you're going to look at and touch 6-10 hours a day for 3-4 years, on average.

So if that is the case why on earth would you buy a laptop that doesn't do anything ? Why wouldn't you spend the few hundred more and get a MacBook Pro that runs Eclipse, Sublime, Visual Studio, Photoshop, Office etc.

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Re:Google Announces $1,299 Chromebook Pixel With 2560×1700px... by edtechdev on Thursday February 21, 2013 @06:21PM (#5261321)

You can do all that in the browser or via remote desktop to a server or desktop. Eclipse Orion works in the browser (as do several other IDEs such as cloud9). Office works in the browser (but I prefer Google Docs).

For simple image editing, I just use pixlr.com. If I really needed advanced features from photoshop (or gimp), I can A) remote connect to a desktop or B) boot to ubuntu from a flash drive.

If you need Visual Studio and don't have access to a desktop computer you can remote connect to, then yes, don't buy a chromebook.

Or of course if you are developing native iphone/ipad apps (i.e., not phonegap, etc.) and don't have access to a mac computer, then yes, of course, get a macbook instead of a chromebook.

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