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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.
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
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.
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.
Eat the rich.
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
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.
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.
I disagree. I suspect that you still possess good eyesight in spite of the middle-aged-plus status suggested by your low user ID. I'm not so lucky. I have a 32" monitor with some godawful-high native resolution that makes most things tiny even on that big a screen. I run it at less than its native res, so it's not as sharp as it could be. Lower resolution would be better for me, and I'm far from being the only one in that position. And if you ARE as young as your apparently good vision would indicate, then kindly get off my lawn!
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
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?
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.