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Designed for Gemini intelligence
They think that’s a selling point?
Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AI
AI Not Exactly a Selling Point for Consumers
Consumers are sick and tired of hearing about AI all the time
etc. etc. People know AI as an indicator for low-quality output with high resource consumtion and trust issues.
A laptop, now with more centralized control! Want to write an app for your laptop? Everything has to be signed and you need to identify yourself and pay a fee.
How’s this different from the Chromebook, that Google cut updates to no less.
Will these new googlebooks come with the same update cycles?
The difference is this is one higher, and they get to deprecate the old ones. Yes it’ll all go to landfills, but they’ll get some profit.
Just like the Pixel Book and Chromebook pixel before it this is going to flop and end up in the graveyard. High-end Chromebooks just aren’t a thing anybody really wants. If you want to game on a device or do game streaming there are better options that aren’t as locked down. Who is this for?
I mean theoretically it could lead to a sort of LineageOS for laptops/desktops, which would be cool. Linux is cool and all but it drives me crazy a lot of times. And to date there doesn’t seem to be much support for serious ARM processors like the ones mentioned in the article. Android is far easier and simpler to use and has a lot more targeted development.
The biggest selling point for Chromebooks was that they are A) Cheap and B) Simple/Fast. Education and Enterprise used them because they were easy to manage.
The cheapest Googlebook is $899 and it’s biggest selling features are a bunch of AI junk nobody asked for. They also cannot be managed yet in the Google Admin Console.
I expect this to flop something terrible.
Chromebooks and Chromecast both seemed to be really successful, affordable and focused things. Very Google, and different from Apple and Microsoft’s style of doing things.
Yet here we are, with both of them phased out or being phased out. I don’t get it.
Google has this really deep-rooted problem where they keep accidentally, through no fault or intention of their own, making things people actually like. It’s very upsetting and from all other indications they are doing everything they can to prevent it from ever happening again, and yet it keeps happening. Nobody can explain why. All they can do is immediately cancel the problematic products and services the moment they realize people actually like them.
All the wannabe “artists” and “musicians” will be begging their parents for one of these, I guarantee it.
Because Chromebooks are cheap, nobody spends money on them, so they’re perenially underpowered.
If you grew up with a Chromebook, your first “real” laptop–if you ever get one–would probably not be a more expensive Chromebook, you’d want a “real” computer: Windows or Mac.
Makes sense to make a clear delineation for the market with different branding, hardware and OS.
If we could get an OS that is as comfortable on a phone as it is on a tablet as it on a laptop, that would be pretty cool. I’m working a phone, tablet and desktop right now, and each has a different OS.
That said, leading with AI is a horrible fucking idea, you’re right. Sounds like something that sounded like a good idea a year ago, but the market has spoken out pretty clearly against AI-integration into Windows… but if it’s a workable, I’d still count an Android laptop with solid h/w as a win.
Because Chromebooks are cheap, nobody spends money on them, so they’re perenially underpowered.
You’ve got that backwards. Chromebooks are supposed to be cheap, which means they’re low power, which means they need a lightweight OS. That’s what ChromeOS is for.
Makes sense to make a clear delineation for the market with different branding, hardware and OS.
This isn’t branching into a different market. It’s a replacement for ChromeOS.. Which means the ChromeOS market segment is just being abandoned entirely.
I wonder when this will go to the Google Graveyard
As with all Google products, wait five years before trying them to see if they’re serious
Given their history, data says about 2 years.
My only question is if they’re selling the hardware at a discount
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what other OSs I’ll be able to run on it because fuck Google.
what other OSs I’ll be able to run on it because fuck Google.
Who cares? If you don’t want GoogleBookOS just buy something else.
Sometimes the hardware’s good, but the softwares shit. Google’s essentially Hammer Industries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpWqTjLn7FgSo it’s good to have alternatives in most cases.
The answer to the first question is: it seems like they are, nothing crazy but definitely cheaper than the other elite x ones
The answer to the second is…probably not right at launch? But we’ll see?
Sounds like 2 questions
I like the cut of your jib. Corrected.
