Chromebook Lineup Q4 2014
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None of my usual suppliers have stock of the HP Chromeboxes which probably means there are none in the HP UK channel. The Asus is available though and I think I'm going to pick one up today.
Any plans for a Chrome Tablet, do you know? I think that would be awesome. I no longer use any apps on my iPad 2 and basically just use Chrome browser on it, so a Chrome tablet would be perfect for me.
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@Bill-Kindle said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Bill-Kindle said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Bill-Kindle said:
@scottalanmiller said:
First up the HP Chromebook 14 which comes in orange, turquoise and light green.
Buy at Wal-Mart, you can get the white version.
Walmart has the last generation. You can get it in Snow White anywhere, but who would want that one? I just didn't mention it.
hangs head, sad
I have one, thought it looked better.
LOL
I will say though, this is the fastest laptop I have ever owned, and I'm using it quite often.
That's awesome. I had a first gen $199 Acer Chromebook and it still works great. I'm really interested in upgrading to an ARM based 11" unit just for casual stuff. The new ones are so nice.
Really shows how good Linux can be for a desktop OS!
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@Carnival-Boy said:
None of my usual suppliers have stock of the HP Chromeboxes which probably means there are none in the HP UK channel. The Asus is available though and I think I'm going to pick one up today.
Any plans for a Chrome Tablet, do you know? I think that would be awesome. I no longer use any apps on my iPad 2 and basically just use Chrome browser on it, so a Chrome tablet would be perfect for me.
So I know nothing official other than that none are on the market yet but here is my thinking there....
Chrome is just starting to see touch screen functionality appear in the latest generation (Lenovo now and HP soon.). Google separates their desktop/laptop and tablet/phone strategies into Chromebook and Android. They share a lot but are very different.
Android is now available on a few desktops and all in ones. I think that we may see a Chrometab but it requires polishing before Chromium is ready for a pure touch interface and Android is pushing it away from that market.
Over time we might see Chrome and Android start to merge.
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Scott, you bring up a good point - why did Google make Chrome OS when they already had Android?
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@Dashrender said:
Scott, you bring up a good point - why did Google make Chrome OS when they already had Android?
Same reason that Apple made iOS when they already had Mac OSX. In both cases they kept the same UNIX based (OSX and iOS are both FreeBSD, Android and Chromium are both Linux) but they made two products. One for mobile and one for traditional desktop.
I think that you will find that the answer is in the fact that mobile is just a unique case and does not lend itself well to the same design decisions as a desktop today. That will change over time and eventually the two will merge, almost certainly. But for now, mobility has unique needs that desktop OSes do not address well. Chromium, for example, doesn't even support the idea of apps while on Android that is the basis of the system. They remain pretty unique.
Android is also based completely around a touch interface with the first few users starting to trial attaching a mouse to it. While Chromium is designed completely around the mouse and people are just experimenting with touch.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
None of my usual suppliers have stock of the HP Chromeboxes which probably means there are none in the HP UK channel. The Asus is available though and I think I'm going to pick one up today.
Any plans for a Chrome Tablet, do you know? I think that would be awesome. I no longer use any apps on my iPad 2 and basically just use Chrome browser on it, so a Chrome tablet would be perfect for me.
Nexus 7 2013. Android / Chrome. Not really a huge difference TBH.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Bill-Kindle said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Bill-Kindle said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Bill-Kindle said:
@scottalanmiller said:
First up the HP Chromebook 14 which comes in orange, turquoise and light green.
Buy at Wal-Mart, you can get the white version.
Walmart has the last generation. You can get it in Snow White anywhere, but who would want that one? I just didn't mention it.
hangs head, sad
I have one, thought it looked better.
LOL
I will say though, this is the fastest laptop I have ever owned, and I'm using it quite often.
That's awesome. I had a first gen $199 Acer Chromebook and it still works great. I'm really interested in upgrading to an ARM based 11" unit just for casual stuff. The new ones are so nice.
Really shows how good Linux can be for a desktop OS!
The one I have has the Intel CPU (Haswell). Ran XfCE pretty well when I loaded it.
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The Chromebook market has done an excellent job of making really nice, attractive, low cost laptops. Why no one else is making stuff as nice is anyone's guess. If I was a sub $300 laptop that looks and works great, I have very few options. But if I go to the Chromebook world suddenly I am overspending at that price!
