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Chromebook Pixel is Microsoft's worst nightmare come true – and Apple's, too

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That six degrees of desperation bullshit was cringe inducing.

Edit: I meant separation, but desperation is funnier.

If I ask any four people in my social circles if they have Chromebook, four of them will answer "What's a Chromebook?"

Chromebook Pixel is Microsoft's worst nightmare come true -- and Apple's, too

Maybe one day. But certainly not on $1300-$1500 browsers. I got a WIN 7 Laptop for around $600 last year, 8GB of RAM, 1TB of hard-drive and use Photoshop, my decade old Windows programs and everything else I can think of with it.

Now with Chrome one can browse the web--at just $900 more.

Conveniently ignoring the hardware advantages is convenient.

I like SSDs

I like high PPI displays.

I like glass touchpads.

I like a metal body.

I like free cloud storage.

Conveniently ignoring that it's sold at the same price as the MacBook Pro retina 13'' is convenient.

The touchscreen is everything. I would willingly pay double, triple for a touchscreen macbook pro.

really? for the price i assume it's a computer for working. I can hardware imagine a single situation when i'm programming code / writing with a word processor / making music / creting graphics and I'd feel the need to dirty the vertical screen that's in front of me with a movement of the arm that gets me away from the keyboard and the mouse.

Oh, let alone that I can hardly use a computer running Linux to work professionally in the graphics / music / media fields, but to each his own: maybe you like the idea of a 1300$ machine to surf the web and play angry bird, and it's not overpriced since it's not from Apple.

Well, it would be very useful making music and graphics, just off of the frustration I've felt with both of those ventures and a lack of touchscreen. But no, I just feel hate the disconnect between gestures and the screen: I always fumble them, to the point where the only "gesture" I have is scrolling.

I should also point out that I only have one computer, not one for dev and one for play, so I really want a touchscreen and a keyboard.

and you do what with them? Browse the internet.

Many of those features are available on Windows and Mac machines (you can actually work on them) at a cheaper price.

So what's Chrome selling point? A $1300 brick unless you're online?

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