Google's Pricey Pixel Gets USB-C and a Lower Price

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 12, 2015 @05:06AM from the dang-I-say-dang dept.

The Register reports that Google's high-end Chromebook Pixel has gotten a few spec bumps, and a lower price. It's still a touchscreen with a resolution of 2,560 × 1,700, but now that screen is backed by 8GB RAM (rather than 4) as a base configuration, and the system is equipped with a Broadwell Core i5 chip, rather than the Ivy Bridge in the first rev. The price has dropped, too; it may still be the most expensive Chromebook, but now it's "only" $999 on the low end, which is $300 less than the first Pixels cost. ($1300, though, gets an i7, 64 gigs of SSD instead of 32, and 8GB of RAM. Perhaps most interesting is that it adds USB type C, and (topping Apple's latest entry) it's got two of them.

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For god's sake man! by Ecuador · 2015-03-12 05:26 · Score: 5, Funny

Close that parenthesis! I can't take it for much longer, it hurts, please!

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Re: Relates to Systemd? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-03-12 05:33 · Score: 5, Funny

The pixel is endorsed by Slashdot folk hero Bennett, was coded by female H-1B visa workers, uses the latest technological advances in graphene, interfaces with Tesla vehicles and can end global warming. SystemD makes all of this possible.
The top end model by stox · 2015-03-12 06:12 · Score: 5, Informative

has 16GB, not 8GB, of RAM.

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