2015 Chromebook Pixel

Re:2015 Chromebook Pixel by cjbprime on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @08:20PM (#9188410)

I have bad news -- the SD card reader on both the new and old Chromebook Pixel is hooked up over USB2 (i.e. max 20MB/sec transfer rate). There is no internal expansion via msata/pcie. And the SSD is soldered down.

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Re:2015 Chromebook Pixel by derekp7 on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @10:54PM (#9188989)

Would it be worth putting a large SD card on it, and using a portion of the internal storage as high speed cache?

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Re:2015 Chromebook Pixel by cjbprime on Thursday March 12, 2015 @09:44AM (#9190692)

I guess so. The question is whether it's worth spending $1k on a laptop with such a restriction, vs. just buying a different one for about the same price that's actually expandable.

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