Chrome OS / Chromebooks

PostRe: Chrome OS / Chromebooks by **Lex-Man** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 2:11 pm

You're paying for the screen. I'm sure a lot of people who buy macs don't use it for that much more than web browsing.

PostRe: Chrome OS / Chromebooks by **Ironhide** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 4:54 pm

That HDD is appallingly small, it should be a 250GB SSD for the price they're charging.

I can't see why anyone would buy one over something like

a)a Macbook
b) entry level laptop
c) one of the many sub £200 android tablets

all three offer better value for money.

PostRe: Chrome OS / Chromebooks by **Mogster** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 5:20 pm

Ironhide wrote:That HDD is appallingly small, it should be a 250GB SSD for the price they're charging.

That would kind of miss the point of such a cloud centric OS. Instead you get 1TB of Google Drive space.

PostRe: Chrome OS / Chromebooks by **Grumpy David** » Sun May 10, 2015 12:25 pm

So Google released a successor to the Chromebook Pixel.

http://www.google.co.uk/chromebook/pixel/

https://store.google.com/product/chromebook_pixel_2015?utm_source=Chromebook&utm_medium=PP&utm_campaign=Chromebook_Pixel_2015 Check the douche hipster beard.

http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/11/8190513/chromebook-pixel-2015-review

Chromebook Pixel 2(015).

The same amazing screen, Intel i5, 8GB RAM, 32GB SSD or Intel i7, 16GB RAM, 64GB SSD. £799 or £999 depending on the model.

The Verge wrote:When I started reviewing the new Chromebook Pixel, I figured it would be a good idea to check our review of the original from two years ago. Here’s what we wrote: "Everyone should want a Chromebook Pixel — I certainly do. But almost no one should buy one."

Still true.

PostRe: Chrome OS / Chromebooks by **Ironhide** » Sun May 10, 2015 5:41 pm

Mogster wrote:
Ironhide wrote:That HDD is appallingly small, it should be a 250GB SSD for the price they're charging.

That would kind of miss the point of such a cloud centric OS. Instead you get 1TB of Google Drive space.

Pfft, Cloud storage or not they're still vastly overpriced.

PostRe: Chrome OS / Chromebooks by **Mogster** » Mon May 11, 2015 9:57 pm

Ironhide wrote:
Mogster wrote:
Ironhide wrote:That HDD is appallingly small, it should be a 250GB SSD for the price they're charging.

That would kind of miss the point of such a cloud centric OS. Instead you get 1TB of Google Drive space.

Pfft, Cloud storage or not they're still vastly overpriced.

You waited two years to say that?

PostRe: Chrome OS / Chromebooks by **Lagamorph** » Mon May 11, 2015 9:58 pm

Grumpy David wrote:The same amazing screen, Intel i5, 8GB RAM, 32GB SSD or Intel i7, 16GB RAM, 64GB SSD. £799 or £999 depending on the model.

The same utter pointlessness.

PostRe: Chrome OS / Chromebooks by **Herdanos** » Wed May 13, 2015 9:36 am

WANT

PostRe: Chrome OS / Chromebooks by **Errkal** » Wed May 13, 2015 9:39 am

Dan. wrote:WANT

Why though. Yeah it is a great spec but what is the point. That spec would be better with Windows on it.

PostRe: Chrome OS / Chromebooks by **Lex-Man** » Wed May 13, 2015 9:41 am

You can install windows on it if you want. I was tempted to buy the original one and replace the hard drive and install Ubuntu. There are better choices now imo.

PostRe: Chrome OS / Chromebooks by **Herdanos** » Wed May 13, 2015 9:47 am

You misunderstand me, Errkal

WANT - Would Anyone Need This?

PostRe: Chrome OS / Chromebooks by **Errkal** » Wed May 13, 2015 9:50 am

Ahh that makes more sense

PostRe: Chrome OS / Chromebooks by **Peter Crisp** » Wed May 13, 2015 10:49 am

I have an Acer chromebook and I think it's great. I also have a few tablets of differing sizes and this is just so much nicer to use.

PostRe: Chrome OS / Chromebooks by KK » Wed May 13, 2015 10:58 am

I like the streamlined, simplistic concept but strawberry float off if it's worth a grand.

PostRe: Chrome OS / Chromebooks by **Errkal** » Wed May 13, 2015 11:09 am

KKLEIN wrote:I like the streamlined, simplistic concept but strawberry float off if it's worth a grand.

Chrome OS always seemed to me to be an instead of a netbook type OS, so should be on low spec cheap devices. Having mega hardware for it just seems like a massive waste.

PostRe: Chrome OS / Chromebooks by **Lex-Man** » Wed May 13, 2015 12:14 pm

To be fair I know people who dropped 2k on a Macbook which they use for light Web browsing. Basically because it looks nice and Apple is cool.

PostRe: Chrome OS / Chromebooks by **coldspice** » Wed May 13, 2015 1:07 pm

No-one will buy one, but that's not really the point I suppose. These are a bit like the Nexus-devices of the laptop world, albeit without the low price tag.

However, they demonstrate exactly what a chrome book could and should do. I've not got one, but I think they'd make a great addition to any set up and the normal price tag of around £200 for most models makes these much better value than the netbooks of recent years.

PostRe: Chrome OS / Chromebooks by **Lex-Man** » Sat Jun 03, 2017 3:14 pm

I bought a chrome book a couple of weeks ago and I'm kind of finding it unusable. It definitely has a use case and it's a fairly well built but not for me.

My main problem is that I am balancing two Google accounts and it will only sync one account so I keep losing access to files I need when off line.

I know there are work arounds but they wouldn't be needed if files were just stored off line.

PostRe: Chrome OS / Chromebooks by **Peter Crisp** » Sat Jun 03, 2017 5:32 pm

I'm using an acer chromebook now but it's only useful for light web browsing and that's it really which is fine for me as that's all I wanted. I prefer typing on an actual keyboard rather than using a touch screen.

PostRe: Chrome OS / Chromebooks by **Lex-Man** » Sat Jun 03, 2017 8:49 pm

Peter Crisp wrote:I'm using an acer chromebook now but it's only useful for light web browsing and that's it really which is fine for me as that's all I wanted. I prefer typing on an actual keyboard rather than using a touch screen.

Yeah, the fact you can turn it into a tablet and use android apps is great. But as a work device it really needs constant Internet access.

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