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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.
I would like to share my holiday story with you. Two years ago, I became violently ill and was diagnosed with heart failure. I was informed that I would require a heart transplant from a compatible donor or I would slowly die. After a long wait on the donor list, I was notified just a few days before Christmas that a donor was found and that it was my time to receive a transplant that would save my life. You can only imagine my joy, that I could live on as a result of this surgery. I met with the doctors to discuss the transplant and was excited to receive a new heart.
However, my joy quickly turned to sorrow as I learned the details of the transplant and the donor. On moral grounds, I could not accept the heart, and I had to decline while thanking the doctors for their time. It is unlikely that I will get another opportunity to receive a transplant, but it was the right decision to make. I am a black man, and I learned that the donor was white. Accepting the transplant would put a white heart, white DNA, and part of a white man inside of me. This would contaminate my blackness and make me partially white, something I could not accept.
My ancestors were forced into slave boats in Africa by white men. Those white men sold them to the highest bidder, another white man. Those white men beat and tortured my ancestors, treating them as less than inferior. Even after the slaves were freed, white men sought to continue the oppression. White people are clearly less than human, otherwise they could not treat other human beings in that manner. As a matter of principle, in preserving my racial purity and humanity, I could not accept a donation from a white man. It would contaminate me with subhuman DNA and make part of me much less than human, something I could not live with. Faced with destroying my racial purity or facing death, I proudly chose to decline the transplant. It is sad knowing that my chance at a heart transplant is gone, but I am grateful to have preserved my racial purity.
Thank you for reading. I trust that all of you will know and understand that I made the right decision. At least I have the joy, this holiday season, of knowing that I will die with my racial purity intact.
All Chromebooks are spyware devices that transmit your data to Google. That is why Google gives it away.
Called "C302CA-DHM4," it has solid specifications, looks great...
This thing looks like a MacBook ... which makes that statement heresy.
For those who can't touch type I guess. Is this a feature now? I'll take "Things that suck battery power for 100 Alex".
"Freedom in the USA is not the ability to do what you want. It is the ability to stop others from doing what THEY want"
No one ever has been looking for a Chromebook.
It's still a mystery how and why they are sold.
Why is this shit on slashdot? No news about climate change today?
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
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.
And Newegg has already pulled the listing. Double Fail.
, stears like a cow - DNA
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.
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!
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 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. ;)
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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.
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).
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.
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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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