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Google Is Planning a 'Pixel 3' Laptop Running 'Andromeda' OS For Release in Q3 2017 (androidpolice.com)
Google plans to launch a laptop next year with Pixel branding which will run 'Andromeda' operating system, reports AndroidPolice, citing sources. Andromeda is a hybrid of Android and Chrome OS, the report adds. Pixel, Chrome OS and Android teams have been working on this project, dubbed Bison, for years, apparently. From the report: Bison is planned as an ultra-thin laptop with a 12.3" display, but Google also wants it to support a "tablet" mode. It's unclear to us if this means Bison will be a Lenovo Yoga-style convertible device, or a detachable like Microsoft's Surface Book, but I'm personally leaning on the former given how thin it is. Powering it will be either an Intel m3 or i5 Core processor with 32 or 128GB of storage and 8 or 16GB of RAM. This seems to suggest there will be two models. It will also feature a fingerprint scanner, two USB-C ports, a 3.5mm jack (!), a host of sensors, stylus support (a Wacom pen will be sold separately), stereo speakers, quad microphones, and a battery that will last around 10 hours. The keyboard will be backlit, and the glass trackpad will use haptic and force detection similar to the MacBook. Google plans to fit all of this in a form factor under 10mm in thickness, notably thinner than the aforementioned Apple ultraportable.The report, however, adds that it is likely that Google might revise the specifications by the time of its launch, which is slated to happen sometime in Q3 2017.
but does it run GNU plus linux or is it only GPLv2ed and tivoized linux?
SNAFU
Face it. Teh G only gets into your ass if it does it for FREE!
do you think they will give users root?
FFS, nobody running Android wants Chrome OS for anything. Multi windows were the big missing feature in Android, and they were already added.
So now manufacturers should be producing lots of Android top end laptops and tablets using the new multi-window feature. INSTEAD THEY WILL WAIT TILL THIS NEW ANDROMEDA OS arrives. So you've undermined your own Android OS and delayed its growth upwards into Q3 2017 or later.
For what?
Android runs on that hardware today. Android supports all that crap today. Why the fuck don't you just deliver Android on this Pixel 3 *NOW* and stop trying to rope Chrome into everything.
The "3" stands for how many units they expect to sell.
The recent ARM SoCs are competitive with the low end Intel chips (and in Apple's case, the A10 is approaching mid-range Intel i5s) used in this type of laptop, and indeed many exceed them. Next year the SD830 and the MT X30 should both be extremely powerful options.
This could help Google reduce costs and achieve the thinness this laptop suggests, without resorting to poorly performing Atom SoCs.
yeah, no thanks.
Can you easily remove this 'Andromeda' crap run an ordinary Linux distribution on it? Then it could be a really interesting machine.
This is a rumor that there will be a hardware announcement of new hardware running new software sometime next year?
Stunning
The Tegra K1 laptops appear to have all been discontinued. Other than a few Rockchip models (which only have proprietary 3d support) the arm chromebook market has essentially died.
I'm looking into picking up one myself from the few remaining new vendors. But the only models left are 250-400 dollars, with 4 gigs of ram and either HD screens, or if you buy 3rd party at a premium, 1080p screens.
The only model officially documented on the google website out of those is the CB5-311. None of the other models have google chromebook pages, and almost none of the 2016 models are on the google chromebook hardware/dev pages either. Looks like another site/wiki that google has abandoned.
Desktop (and to a lesser extent) laptop processors use multiple pipelines to improve performance and limit stalls
ARM chips have multiple cores, each with its own pipeline. In fact, ARM processors using a "big.LITTLE" microarchitecture have sets of performance-optimized and power-optimized cores for use during different power management states. Are you referring to "superscalar", in which the instruction decoder reorders multiple instructions from one thread to run them in one cycle? Or are you referring to simultaneous multithreading (SMT), where two instruction decoders, one on each thread, feed into a single set of execute units? Intel Atom uses SMT to hide stalls, as do recent AMD microarchitectures where the two cores in a "module" have their own integer execute units but share FPU and other resources.
Will Lexa Doig provide the user interface?
I would focus on getting such devices to run on full desktop OS's or we will get in the trouble that we had with windows 3.1-ME
Where DOS and Windows Up to ME. Were designed for Low End Desktops while Unix/VMS/NT were designed for real computing. By the time 95 came out Desktop PC's were powerful enough to run the Big Boy OS's however we were stuck on the legacy systems for compatibility for over a decade.
What really did the trick was the move to 64bit. And the rise of Web Applications, allowing a much smoother transition.
But these OS's designed for mobile, will only get us in trouble once mobile devices are on par with our desktop systems.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
It also doesn't work seamlessly with existing messaging apps. I gave it a test run and was told by message recipients that it pops up a warning message about the message "may come from an unsafe source" every time I sent a message.
I'm not going to piss off everyone I text with that crap so I uninstalled it.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
I've seen that Andromeda movie. Wasn't it an alien virus that almost wiped out life on earth- and just when they thought they had a solution the virus mutated and kept on killing.
Is this what google is trying to accomplish? Wipe out all life on earth so the only sentient beings are... ... androids?
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
"Three pixels oughtta be enough for any baby!"
- Toddler Gates
Table-ized A.I.
n/t
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
The report, however, failed to add that it is likely that Google will grow bored of the project and abandon it and its' customers, which is slated to happen sometime in Q3 2018.
I don't understand why the linux community is not capitalizing on the situation with the Windows 10 Fiasco and Google and Apple spying on you? This is quite the time to hit them with a secure OS. Start making deals to get Adobe products to work on Linux and others like the old Unix's did before.
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"Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality." - [Tips: 1DrYakQDKCQ6y52z6QbnkxHXAocMZJE61o ]
Perhaps I lack imagination, but I can't see any way at all how that would turn out to be utter shite.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
They should know better than to use galaxy related names. Might spontaneously combust like the Note 7.
what nonsense Google don't work on something for years, a couple of weeks effort release the pre-alpha code - job done.