Re:2015 Chromebook Pixel
by dragonwriter on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @04:05PM
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> 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?
Re:2015 Chromebook Pixel
by fizzbatter on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @05:08PM
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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.
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.
> couldn't even run Skype on it
Hangouts?
... 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.
Since Chromebook is Linux under the hood, they'll presumably have the driver situation down. So this makes for a very nice Linux system.