Thursday
Oct182012
The £229 laptop from Google (or $249)
Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 8:31PM This could be a game-changer.
Your favorite Google products built-in: Search, Gmail, YouTube, and Hangouts. So you can work, play, and do whatever you want, right out of the box. Choose from thousands of free apps and let Chromebook keep it all fresh with automatic updates.
Stick it in your purse, backpack, or briefcase. It weighs under 2.5 pounds, is less than 0.8 inches thin, and has more than 6.5 hours of battery life. And wherever you are, all your things are safely stored online.
Viruses, malware and other nasties are taken care of. No extra software (or worrying) required.
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Lovely.
I wonder how difficult it is to make it run Linux, to get rid of that Google crap on it ;)
ChromeOS has gained no traction in the market and I can't see that changing. This is a low-functionality netbook at a time when all the smart money is moving out of netbooks and into tablets.
Interesting that it uses the Samsung Exynos 5 Dual Processor though. Only dual core but it's a generation on from the Exynos 4 Quad in the S3 and Note II. It's based on a Cortex A15 architecture, which is the next big thing in smartphone/tablet processing.
Nope. This has been done before and a gimped laptop is not what people want.
We had one of the earlier chromebooks at work for testing. It was an overpriced was of space.
This looks to be the same.
You could probably get a netbook for similar prices with a proper OS on it.
If they charged £100 you could probably justify it as a device to give to elderly relatives for browsing and emailing. Not at over £200.
My favourite bit of Chromebook fluff from the amazon page
http://www.amazon.co.uk/b?node=758129031
Wahoo, it comes with the internet pre-installed. No more broadband fees for me.