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Google calls ‘time’ on the Pixel laptop

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35 pointsmikeevans15 comments

Yet another google product bites the dust. The first thing anyone buying a Google product or developing against a Google API should ask themselves - will it be there in another year ?

It's weird, isn't it?

They seem to be going from pillar to post, ditching products that may not set the world alight, but were surely never going to. Neither can they be dragging Google under. Meanwhile they're acquiring a reputation that will make it so much harder to launch new products.

Why does this matter for a single hardware product in an ecosystem? ChromeOS is still clearly being invested in. As a Pixel laptop owner I couldn't care less if they refresh the Pixel anytime soon.

They ought to buy Canonical and build a laptop with a full fledged operating system. Then I won't have to keep choosing between installing linux on crappy Windows machines or buying expensive macs.

Hopefully with the windows subsystem for linux I can just have a cheap windows computer that works with linux tools.

Isnt the "Macs are expensive" meme getting old? The prices are actually very competitive and I'm not talking about vs upgrading the ram in your system 76 laptop.

No it will continue to be used until the price is closer to the price of similar spec windows laptops. Where I live at the moment its anywhere from 2x to 1.5x the exact same components in a shell not made by apple

I'd love to buy a competitive device that's 1/2-2/3 the price of a MacBook, but I've never seen one at that price point. The models that come up in these threads usually lack a quality screen, long battery life, durable construction, or good support for Linux / unix user land tools or some combination thereof. Linux subsystem for windows may be starting to address the last point, but I haven't had the chance to use it yet.

The closest competitors, like the XPS series and the Surface Book, are nearly as much as a Mac or more. The closest XPS 13 to the bottom touchbar 13" MBP costs $150 more. Microsoft sells $2,000+ Surface Books with only 8GB of RAM.

Am I doing this wrong? Looks like the XPS 13 with similar spec is $1,220 [1] vs. $1,800 [2] for the Macbook Touchbar?

[1] https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01LQTXED8

[2] http://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro

I went to Dell.com: http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/productdetails/xps-13-9360-la....

It's true, the higher end windows laptops are very comparable to Macbook prices. People get confused because Macbook's are only high end and people see windows machine in a full range

I wonder how long the 2nd gen will be supported now? they already dropped the first...

From the title I was genuinely wondering if this was about a novel system time usage, or if they were killing the whole thing. Kind of a strange phrasing.

Google outpriced themselves with super cheap Chromebooks on the tail end as well.

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