G+_George Kozi Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Will 2014 be the year of the Chromebook? Everybody seems to be making them now... http://www.engadget.com/2014/01/06/toshiba-chromebook-hands-on/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Richard Tan Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Yup I think it is. I am going to purchase one this year, I am just waiting for the right one. I want 8GB of Ram and at least an i3 processor and then I will jump on the bandwagon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Uncle Joe (Uncle Joe Hi Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 My problem with Chromebooks is that a) connectivity is not ubiquitous and b) it's not uniform. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Anthony Kafka Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Netbook + Free OS = High Margins. Simple math. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Richard Tan Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Kevin Gamin 4GB Ram and only Celeron... don't think so... Touch screen is nice. I don't mind to spend like $499 on it, so 8GB of ram so I can have 30-40 tabs open and a decent processor to power it... also thinking about it, throw in a decent graphics card as I will know native client games will be out sooner or later... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Richard Tan Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Kevin Gamin open up the Verge and some heavy flash website with around 20 tabs open, scroll up and down and tell me you do not get lag... Even the pixel gets lag. Chrome eats RAM and I think Google needs to fix that. Yup I know it is a haswell, but the improves over ivy-bridge is not much. It is mostly power consumption. Broadwell will be interesting, more power consumption with higher clock speeds I feel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_ranTrek Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 I'll wait and see, could be like the phones and become so feature and version fragmented as to be a nightmare for support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_George Kozi Posted January 6, 2014 Author Share Posted January 6, 2014 It can't fragment... it can run only Chrome, and Google is the boss of that. That's the point of it, isn't it? Always up to date. If it doesn't run that, it ain't a Chromebook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Richard Tan Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Difference is there is something called the open handset alliance for Android but not for Chrome. For Android it still gives Google control as in order to make an android device Google compliant they will have to follow strick rules, hence any device with the Google Play store are OHA compliant. Chrome on the other hand has nothing like that. If someone forks it then they will need to maintain the source going forward. They are not obliged to rebase the code when a new release of chrome is out. Also chrome is Google. It is very unlikely for someone to fork it. It makes more sense to fork the engine behind it like for Google has forked Web kit to blink. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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