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The Chromebook Pixel Is Real, and Expensive
First time accepted submitter Lirodon writes "Just when you thought Google's rumored Chrome OS laptop, the Chromebook Pixel, was an elaborate fake, think again. This high-end Chromebook with a 12.85-inch high resolution touchscreen (available in both Wi-Fi only and Verizon LTE versions) and an Intel Core i5 processor under the hood is super fancy, and also super expensive: starting at $1299. Would you want to pay that much for what is essentially a premium netbook?" Engadget has a hands-on with the device.
This thing would obviously only be $2.99 + S&H if it weren't for the Microsoft tax! I'm tired of M$ driving up the price of hardware with ... interruption... whispering .... uh... I'm tired of the GOOGLE TAX!
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
Just like a normal laptop and just like a normal laptop you can install linux to your hearts content.
As a proud member pervert in good standing of the Congregation for Appreciation of Internet Pr0n, I must heartily decry, deride, protest, and shake every conceivable appendage I can muster at the idea of a laptop having a touchscreen. I care not for access to dev mode and ease of conversion to Linux, nor do I care about comparisons to MBR, MBP, or any other model in its market class, nay; what I care most about is that when I am using internet on my laptop for the purpose that the Good Lord Snookums intended--the transmission of digitalized lewd images at 0.999999 percent of c to my eyes for transitional enlightenment of my load--that any incidental contact of whatever airborne fluids I may be generating will not hit my screen and be registered as input. I have a hard enough time keeping my screen nice and clear as it is, I really do not need the fruit of my loins sending me to yet another morally dubious website when I'm not yet done with the one I'm on! So NAY! I say! Nay to touchscreens on laptops! I will NOT be a consumer of this product!
As a side note, I do not use my iPad for this very reason... well, that and my wrists tend to get crimps in them.
Here's to hot beer, cold women, and Glaswegian kisses for all.
Considering that the name is Chromebook Pixel, they might want to rethink that marketing talking point.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Fine for regular folk. Us enthusiasts have vastly higher expectations, and we're not a shrinking market.
Well aren't we a bunch of precious fucking snowflakes?
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it