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Unannounced ASUS C302CA-DHM4 Chromebook Hits Newegg, and It Looks Great (betanews.com)

Posted by msmash on from the new-laptops dept.

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.

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  1. "if you have been looking for a new Chromebook" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No one ever has been looking for a Chromebook.
    It's still a mystery how and why they are sold.

    1. Re:"if you have been looking for a new Chromebook" by Jason+Levine · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Actually, I've been in the market for a Chromebook for my 13 year old son. He uses Google Docs for schoolwork and the new capability of some Chromebooks to run Android apps means that he could do his "Android gaming" on the same laptop. Best of all, it won't break our tight budget. My current front-runner is the Acer Chromebook R11. (The R13 looks much nicer, but is a lot more money.)

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      My sci-fi novel, Ghost Thief, is now available from Amazon.com.
    2. Re:"if you have been looking for a new Chromebook" by kelemvor4 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      No one ever has been looking for a Chromebook. It's still a mystery how and why they are sold.

      People who don't know anything about computers don't know that these are any different from a regular windows laptop. I know at least one person whose father bought one thinking it was a normal computer.

      For many people, a computer is a web browser and a web browser is a computer.

  2. What? by ArchieBunker · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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    Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
    1. Re:What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Below cost? Except for the MS tax I can find comparable Windows laptops. And if ChromeOS is free to the manufacturer, why is Asus selling them below cost? That fails the sniff test and all sorts of logic. And if you hate it so much you can wipe the drive and do everything with your own version of Linux...?

  3. Re:is it really that great? by KozmoStevnNaut · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't care that whether a phone has the same or even higher resolution, as long as it's only ~5" big. 1080p at 5" and 1080p at 13" are two vastly different use cases. And web browsing on a phone is an absolutely horrible experience.

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    Eat the rich.
  4. A slashvertisement? by darthsilun · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And Newegg has already pulled the listing. Double Fail.

  5. Re:Spyware by ArchieBunker · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.

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    Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
  6. Re:Spyware by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.