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Am i the only one seeing this as a high-end computer with :

- Linux drivers working out of the box

- Amazing screens

- Very easy to transform into a full fledged Linux development machine

I hope it can fit the bill, certainly looks promising from that perspective ! Anybody has a link to full specs ?

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I had the same initial reaction, but the killer is the hard drive : 32 or 64 GB SSD... That's a bit short to do local development. Maybe you can change it though.

Nope, I was wondering whether sticking Ubuntu or Mint on this would transform it into a kickass Linux laptop. It's close, but there is a measly 32GB SSD and no option for i7 or 8GB RAM.

I've been using my Cr-48 with Linux for development and it's actually pretty doable, and it only has 16GB and obviously much worse specs. This is, of course, going to depend very heavily on what kind of development you're doing.

Sadly, with 32 GB, it would probably end as only development machine, while with even 120 GB it could work as reasonable "home machine" too.

But otherwise yes, it looks great.

I have a link, but it does not currently work in any browser:

http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebook-pixe...

So search for "Full specs" on the page and click on it.

http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebook-pixe...

I wonder how Linux desktops will handle the screen - I imagine lots of tiny, unreadable text.

I a pretty sure the font size isn't hard coded in the kernel ;)

The text console fallback would suffer though - it is using 16px font by default and might put the display in highest-res mode on bootup. Then again, you can just change the text console resolution.

Sure, you can make text readable by modifying only 17 different config files. Then you realize that widgets are too small to click on, but that only requires 23 different patches to fix...

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