Comments on: Video look at Google’s impressive Chromebook Pixel

By: stauffer

stauffer — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:53:30 +0000

I love Chromebooks and live in Chrome and Google’s services whether I’m on my desktop, my Macbook Air, my Windows laptop, or one of my Chromebooks. The experience falls apart for me when I get into very technical areas like programming and when I’m hacking Arduinos. Price this computer at $800 – $1000 and I’ll have a much harder time resisting it. As it is, I have come close to adding it to my cart on Google play. If the LTE version was not delayed from shipping for 5-6 weeks, I probably would have purchased one by now.

By: Zachary Reiss-Davis

Zachary Reiss-Davis — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:50:13 +0000

I’m just confused by it, as it seems are most people — why do you want to own this instead of a Macbook Air?

By: Ashwin Datye

Ashwin Datye — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:59:10 +0000

great commentary as usual

By: Spencer Hudson

Spencer Hudson — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 22:04:58 +0000

some interesting comments – and defiantly opening up options – if the battery life was stella i think it would make more people interested. Screen resolution for me is the daddy … you simply can’t have enough resolution. so couple a ultra high res laptop with a great battery … and you really have an interesting bit of kit. esp when you can save the BIG jobs for when you’ve got a connection!!!!!! after all in all the films you have a local low powered machine but they always have to connect to save the universe or some such plot device

By: Sathya Vasudeva

Sathya Vasudeva — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 17:57:10 +0000

The hardware looks awesome but unless Google brings some more magic to the os itself, I’m not sure how anyone can justify the price tag!

On a side note, it’s very distracting to watch a video review while the device is being held in one hand and moves constantly….

By: Blab It Canada

Blab It Canada — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 16:45:43 +0000

Thanks for the very informative demo. How can I purchase one in Canada?

By: Blab It Canada

Blab It Canada — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 16:43:39 +0000

Reblogged this on Blab It Canada and commented: Is the new Chromebook over priced?

By: winstuff

winstuff — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 16:40:05 +0000

Just a pretty face.

By: Neal Hoskins

Neal Hoskins — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 15:20:50 +0000

excellent review kevin, how many multi touch points on screen and how fast is full charge on battery neal

By: Hortron

Hortron — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 15:04:54 +0000

It has USB, from there you can get USB -> serial, SPI, TTL serial, etc… so you’re good to go for debugging. Since it’s unix based you can do anything with it. But if the question is would an organization replace their laptops with these ? perhaps in the future, but only if it saves the money. A $500 pc works just as well. These things may take off more for individuals.

Unless I’m overestimating people’s affinity for full featured PCs, I can’t see the usecase unless the chromebook is CHEAP. But laptops are already cheap. What is potentially nice is that the license to run chrome OS is implicit with owning a chromebook. But I don’t know if that’s reality.