Linus Torvalds is considering the Chromebook Pixel as his primary laptop
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SSD's do fail, sometimes by accident, sometimes by software bugs. Some muppet added a swap partition to one of our build servers with a Samsung 830 and the cells were all worn out dead in 3 months from swapping.
You are forced to keep proprietary resources (data, code, etc.) in "the cloud". Which is precisely what many businesses want. They don't want information floating around on individual machines, potentially un-backed-up and inaccessible to the business.
Replacing the occasional machine with a bad SSD is a minor inconvenience, by comparison.
See it from the business's perspective, not the individual's.
P.S. Yes, there is a contrary fear of relying on a third party for storage and security (and continued accessibility). But... Google doesn't have that concern WRT deploying this to their own workforce. And... giving it too much consideration doesn't sell their own services (Google Apps, Drive, etc.). And I still don't think Google really wants to be in the hardware business as a primary product and revenue stream.
Oh, and... have your own "cloud", to whatever degree. Google can sell that, too. (It has already, to various agencies of the U.S. Federal government.)
Right now, unless something with a >1080p screen comes out, the ThinkPad Helix (https://www.lenovo.com/products/us/tablet/thinkpad/thinkpad-...) will probably remain on the top of my list for when the warranty on my current laptop runs out. At least it has 1080p on a 12" screen, rather than making me choose between a 720p I don't mind carrying and a 1080p boat anchor.
Reading my sentence again, I think we can agree CSS is not well behaved.
This is a shortcoming of traditional GDI+ based Windows apps however, not of WPF based Metro apps.
[0] http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebook-pixe...
[1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/21/google-announces-1299-chrom...
_Does it have a good keyboard??_
(Laptop keyboards seem to become worse as the years go on -- with the exception of macbooks and possibly Thinkpads -- and I'm really hoping that the Chromebook Pixel has a respectable keyboard)
Some of the pictures on Google's site seem to suggest a macbook-like keyboard layout and profile so I'm hopeful that they're comparable.
The touchpad clicks really loudly, but the Pixel has a new glass touchpad so that might not be an issue anymore.
My parents have a Toshiba laptop from around 2011, and its keyboard is undescribably atrocious. Poor key layout (small keys & excessive space between keys), overly resistant and springy key dynamics, very slippery key surface, etc.
The best laptop keyboard I've had was the late 90's ~ early 2000's IBM-era thinkpads.
"What's with this ~` key? Nobody uses that, and it offends my designer sensibilities."
I had a Dell like that, and got used to typing $HOME and $(command) rather than ~ and `command`.
As long as you don't mind lacking a home, end, pageup, pagedown, F11, F12, or delete key, you should have no trouble using the keyboard.
For a closeup of the keyboard layout: http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebook-pixe...
This makes ANY laptop useless.
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If I can't buy it, it's practically non-existent. A pity, all those devices Google has come up with are really interesting.
I'm rather worried about how Lenovo have gone all experimental. I still want an old fashioned black brick with a clitmouse.
What really bugs me is thinkpads with shit screen resolution. Like, really shit, even compared to less heavy duty cheaper laptops. Thinkpads should not cut costs.
I have a 22" 1920x1080 display on my desk which I rarely use as it gives me a headache.
I should not be able to get on Lenovo's site, look at the current T-series, think back to my (now half a decade old!) 2007 T60p, and be disappointed and underwhelmed. If cheaper less powerful computers are being sold with better screens than T-series thinkpads, there is something very wrong going on.
"...I can lug around this 1.5kg monster despite feeling fairly strongly that a laptop should weigh 1kg or less."
Are there laptops with any respectable screen real-estate weighing in at < 1kg? My primary laptop is a 13" Air. 1kg is only 70% of its weight. I was unaware they got much lighter while sporting double digit screen sizes.
The post 'How I ended up with a Mac' by Miguel[1] got flagged off the front page while this post is zooming up the front page.
Coincidence?
It's retarded to think that in the late 1990s we had 1600x1200 CRTs at 120hz and great color quality. Now it's almost 15 years later and 120hz isn't even main stream, color quality is worse and we traded some vertical for horizontal resolution.
Wtf?
Your comment makes no sense... considering the only reason you/hn/whoever even reads his posts is because he's the Linux guy. If he wasn't nobody would even read it, and you can't troll nothing lol.