Does the Pixel not bring beautiful design, and awesome hardware to linux users? I for one, prior to its release, had been browsing everywhere for a 'mac killer' laptop (hardware-wise) that I could load Linux Mint / Ubuntu onto without luck.
TL;DR - Could the Pixel + Linux be the device we'll use?
The hard drive is a pretty good point, the LTE/3G data connection + 1TB cloud storage could overcome this, but I live in Australia, so the data costs would be enormous. Also, I did run Ubuntu for a while on my MBP and it was ok, but there were some hardware issues (power management mostly).
I wasn't aware of the kernel issues, this could be a problem. Damn. :P
Although “there's no way to set the legacy boot as the default option” so it still sounds a bit of a pain.
What makes the Pixel any better than the high-end devices from these companies? And though many will say that you can't get the Pixel screen on any of the available devices, don't forget that you also can't get a Pixel with a hard-drive of reasonable size.
But other than storage, it seems to be almost everything I'd want in a dev laptop.
No they don't. http://www.sandisk.com/products/memory-cards/sd/extremepro-s... -- "Delivers up to 90MB/s write and 95MB/s read rate for extreme speed."
> and if that's USB3 it's faster than any SD card you'll ever get.
It's not, it's USB2.