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Unannounced ASUS C302CA-DHM4 Chromebook Hits Newegg, and It Looks Great (betanews.com)
An anonymous reader shares a BetaNews article: If you have been looking for a new Chromebook with some modern specifications and features, I have some good news. An all-new convertible touchscreen ASUS Chromebook has hit Newegg. Apparently, the company has not yet announced the laptop, making it quite the surprise. Called "C302CA-DHM4," it has solid specifications, looks great, and best of all, it is reasonably priced. Also cool is the fact that the Chromebook has a backlit keyboard -- very useful for those that work in the dark. It even features dual USB-C ports (also used for charging), but neither are USB 3.1 Gen 2 -- both are Gen 1, which is essentially the slower USB 3.0. If 64GB of onboard storage isn't enough, you can expand using the microSD card port. Luckily, this ASUS Chromebook comes with 4GB of RAM, which I consider the bare minimum nowadays. While some folks may pooh-pooh the Intel Core m3 processor as underpowered, I disagree -- it is a very capable chip. For Chrome OS in particular, I expect it to be quite nimble.
Called "C302CA-DHM4," it has solid specifications, looks great...
This thing looks like a MacBook ... which makes that statement heresy.
No one ever has been looking for a Chromebook.
It's still a mystery how and why they are sold.
What the fuck are you even babbling about? Chromebooks aren't given away. Unless you browse using TAILS on a read only USB stick you're being tracked somewhere by some ad agency. Get a Chromebook for your parents and you'll never get another tech support phone call.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
Yet chromeOS and android are hung out as examples of how linux is gaining share if not outright winning when counted in number of devices. Sure they may be based on linux but they do not share the philosophy. They are as you say spyware with little to no user control.
All the complaints about Win10, every last one of them, have applied to 'the new linux' for years. Where do you think MS got the idea?
I take, "retard who doesn't understand the inconsequential power demand of a few leds for 500 alex". Oh look I found the daily double, Fuck you.
4 Gig ram, 64 gig SSD, 1080p display, 500 bucks. I'm sorry but most phones come with more storage and a multiple of that resolution. Even as a minimalist tool, a phone alone works better already. When doing serious writing or reading (a high resolution screen is pivotal when reading long, especially with technical documentation) its important to have a decent resolution screen, have a solid keyboard, have a local library and programs (which work also if the internet connection is off and where it is not logged what and how long you are reading what). Paying twice as much but being the master of your data and programs and have a multiply times the storage is well worth it. Actually, it can sometimes be really good to get off the web and concentrate on work alone for a day or two.
Thank you for sharing! Will someone here please donate their not white heart to this man?
And Newegg has already pulled the listing. Double Fail.
Have you read every single line of code currently running on your computer? How about the UEFI code? Hard drive firmware? We know spy agencies have compromised that before. You have absolutely no clue if your box is spyware free. How about the management engine in your CPU or the firmware on your ethernet interface? You'd have no idea if it randomly sent packets back to the home company in China. Yes Google uses analytics and metrics on its users but you can't call it spyware when they tell you what's being done.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
, stears like a cow - DNA
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My wife switched from a Linux desktop to a Chromebook, which would also run Ubuntu. To my surprise, she never had any reason to boot Ubuntu - Chrome was all she needed. As someone else said, for her the computer is the web. Battery life was great, it would sleep and wake quickly and without glitches so she'd charge it maybe once a week. Just close the lid when she's not using it and the battery would last a week.
> Sure they may be based on linux but they do not share the philosophy.
That's an interesting comment. Certainly it doesn't match Stallman's GNU philosophy, but Linus's Linux philosophy - maybe not so much conflict there. You pop open a terminal and there's Linux, with the standard Linux tools.
I'd love to know how, in your mind, Linux was ever going to "win the desktop" while also maintaining the unix philosophy. When people speak of Linux ruling the desktop (or the pocket I guess), they certainly do not envision the masses editing text config files and piping bash commands. But if that's your thing, Chromebooks do have a developer mode with full access to the guts and many Android handsets/tablets are rooted without too much effort - anyone who cares will probably check to make sure of this before making the purchase. Hell, even the iPhone is based on mach/unix. Not a win for Linux, but same lineage.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
Extremely shoddy hardware, with the cheapest possible components and glitchy, jerky operation owing to defects in communication between the glitchy slow components and other parts of the hardware. You would do much better to buy ACER or Lenovo, which is why they were the big winners in sales figures last year while ASUS did poorly.
Alternative Right.
That puppy costs 499$, While the specs are not bad, they are not that great either at that price point given that the system is nothing more than a browser on steroids.
Thank you Trump!
The couple hundred milliamps of a current draw from the backlight is nothing compared to the CPU and the display.
What you call spyware I call the price I gladly pay for free email, calendar, contact management, search, web browsing, drive space, photo organization, document creation/editing/management, (simple) web site hosting, a mobile device OS, maps, translation, music management, video hosting, messaging, social media (I know), note-taking, and data synchronization.
When does this happen in the movie?
What's a "finder"? It has folders/files and an excellent file finding facility. There's no desktop, that's true.
Max.
So does it crash on you frequently like it does on the Windows version?
Stopped reading at touchscreen. You can fuck off with your urge to fingerpain all day long.
I call people like you selfish. You are willing to trade your children's future away for a trinket. Oh, you think it is just a bit of your privacy that you trade for all the "free" stuff that google gives you? Google and such are building a massive wall of predictive software that is going to royally screw our kids, grand-kids, and great grand-kids. If they can predict what large numbers of people will do under any given circumstance, they can control what large numbers of people do. This is not going to end well.
Somebody should invent some way to control the intensity / power drain!
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
I read a similar story some 30 years ago, except the roles were reversed. The white man declined a black man's heart. That was just as racist as this post is. No more, no less.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
I know it runs contrary to the design/intent of the Chromebook OS, but even something like a Downloads folder being missing messes with my workflow. I use the folder as basically a to-review-later folder. I know I could use Paper or something similar but it's not my current workflow. And, I'm old. ;)
Bark less. Wag more.
The odds of a tissue type match would be even tinier than they are within the same race. Heck, it's less than 50% chance within the immediate family.
Either it's a myth or it dates from before they knew about stuff like that and the guy would probably have died anyway.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Fool me once*, shame on you. Fool me twice**, can't get fooled again. Fuck you Asus!
*with the Transformer Prime and it's shitty ass WiFi, and GPS so bad you actually expected me to use a dongle to get a usable GPS signal
**with the Transformer Infinity, and it's piece of shit software upgrades (and from what I understand to be somehow due to inferior memory bandwidth?) that render the thing slower and slower with every update, to the point that I can do a factory reset on my Inifinity, install absolutely no apps, and still have 5 to 10 second touch lag in chrome on a regular basis even after it has had 20 minutes to finish it's reboot, do whatever startup tasks it may need.
..but it has a Downloads folder too. Are you sure you've actually used ChromeOS?
Max.
It is confusing that Slashdot seems to fetishize the Chromebook: a touchscreen centric, cloud only, spyware ridden, closed ecosystem with 0 dev tools that can only run lightweight web apps, while constantly hating Windows 10 for being a touchscreen centric cloud friendly os, which occasionally phones home, has a full blown Linux subsystem accessible through bash and has one of the best suites of development tools available.
I don't trust Google to always do what I think is morally right, but they give me tools to see and expunge everything they track about me.
That's a far better deal than I get from most companies I interact with.
Sure, of course they may be lying, but why would they lie when 99.999% of their customers won't even bother learning that there is such an option, let alone exercise it?! Lying would open them to legal risk, telling them the truth insulates them and costs them practically nothing.
paranoid schizophrenia...
When the EULA reads "thou shalt bend over upon request", it seems misplaced to enthuse over the clover.
One thing worse than picking up pennies in front of a steamroller is picking up cherries under a gorilla (this includes old, tired, dissipated gorillas with weak bladders).
The truth is, Google's very survival revolves around user trust. If Google ever breaks that trust, the company dies overnight. They drill this into every employee's head on the day they are hired, and in the 2-weeks of training that everyone receives. Access to private information is off limits and proposals to access private data must pass muster with a board of review and is only granted for a limited time, and only for legitimate business (i.e. ads-targeting, normally) purposes.
FInder is the name of the original Macintosh Operating System Shell ~ i.e. the window manager, used to find applications to run, was called "The Finder". The first bit of code that would allow you to load 2 or more programs in memory and swap screens among them - the Multifinder !!!
Stallman was talking about how horrible ChromeOS would be before it was even released.
http://m.theregister.co.uk/201...
Stallman was talking about how horrible ChromeOS would be before it was even released.
As is the case more often than not, he's right. A full-blown computer that can only run a browser, feh. Everybody who uses one will run into that limitation sooner or later and complain about it, especially as the devices keep moving closer to the ultrabook form factor. Google is well aware of this and is busy back filling, supporting Android apps and multiple windows for example.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
> A full-blown computer that can only run a browser, feh. Everybody who uses one will run into that limitation sooner or later and complain about it
My wife replaced her Linux desktop with a Chromebook, which I immediately istalled Ubuntu on. I also left ChromeOS as dual boot. By booting Ubuntu, it ran pretty much just like the desktop she had before. My wife loved that little computer. One great thing was the battery life - it would suspend amd resume very quickly and gracefully, so by just closing the lid whenever she wasn't using it, it only needed to be charged about once a week.
Here's what surprised me - she never booted Ubuntu. ChromeOS did exactly what she wanted. She never once ran asked me "how do I _____ on this computer?" Not once. When she wanted to check her email, she went to her email as she always had - in the browser. She used Pinterest, Groupon, maps, looked up TV listings - all the things she did on her desktop computer worked just the same on ChromeOS.
So while *I* would be unsatisfied with its limitations I found out that NOT "everybody who uses one will run into that limitation". For a lot of people, including my wife and my mom, it fits their needs perfectly. And actually since it has ssh and a browser, I used it when traveling and it fit my needs for a travel computer - mostly I use my local computer to ssh to various servers. My stuff isn't stored on any particular local terminal.
Yup, certain of it ;) Like I said, it was sufficiently different that it was too disruptive of my I'm-old-get-off-of-my-lawn workflow. I certainly appreciated the concepts, but it just wasn't right for how I work.
Bark less. Wag more.
She had it for three or four years before I accidentally broke it, and she was always happy with it. We printed stuff out about two or three times per year, meaning the inkjet nozzles were likely to be dried up, so even from my big desktop I print via the Fedex Office (Kinko's) on the corner. As I said, it wouldn't quite fit *my* needs, and it may not fit *your* needs, but it works very well for very many people.
ok, that's your choice, but it just seems like all your 'issues' aren't actually valid - at least, not any more. Perhaps it's time to have another look, especially now some are coming out that have some actual horsepower - it's surprising how much you need for even a half reasonable number of tabs/windows.
Max.
It's funny you say that. After reading your responses I said the exact same thing to my wife. Might be time to give it another shot. Thanks :)
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