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You don't need too much memory or clock speed for web applications. The general market seems to be businesspeople, so it's not a general purpose computer even to the extent your average netbook is.
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Tom's Hardware mentions the specs:
Specswise, we know the Acer model boasts an 11.6-inch HD widescreen LED-backlit LCD, a dual-core Atom CPU, 2xUSB 2.0, a 4-in-1 memory card slot, support for HDMI and a battery that supports six hours of continuous use. Samsung’s press release for the Series 5 Chrome Book details a 12.1-inch Super Bright display, an Intel Core 2 Duo N570 1.66Ghz CPU, up to 8.5 hours of battery, 2xUSB 2.0 ports, and support for SD, SDHC, MMC. 11.6" HD Widescreen Cine Crystal LED-backlit LCD.
Is that cake frosting?
Yeah, call me paranoid, but I still don't buy this whole "cloud" stuff. Web applications can be nice and all, and of course for some tasks needing heavy-duty computation a distributed approach like that may work very well; but there is no way I am going to give up control over my contents like that.
If it was really, really cheap, I guess it could perhaps work; but. as the OP mentioned, you can get a good netbook for less than that price.
But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
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I don't buy into the whole cloud thing because it's been proven time and time again that there will always be circumstances capable of leaving you without internet access.
Look at the PS 3 and the games that require online verification. They haven't been able to play some games for weeks now because the PS 3 network is offline.
Although these netbooks probably work offline. Probably.
Google's not that stupid, right?
Look, you can't make me speak in a logical, coherent, intelligent bananna.
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This is not as exiting as I wanted it too be.
First of the battery life is good, but it is still extremely poor for the intended purpose.
Secondly it is not given weither or not this battery life estimate is given for full load, or if it is for "just being used", if it is for the second one then indeed the battery life is poor.
I guess the lack of a 24-28 hour battery life will be the Chromebooks Achilles' Heel, because it is techologically feasable these days to have such a ludircrus battery life these days.
More like giant cherries
^^ From what I've heard, it's just an expensive brick without internet access.
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DUMB
Considering "Nothing but the Web", I wouldn't expect much.
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o hai
holy shit what
...i'm really outdated aren't I
If people learned from their mistakes, there wouldn't be this thing called bad habits.
Nemesis
A co-worker got a CR-48 from Google for free and found himself unable to really test it because his kids always snagged it. I guess that's some kind of endorsement!
Also a great thing to give to guests to Net with.
A brighter future for a darker age.
More like giant cherries
I suppose it would be useful for public terminals in libraries and other such places. They usually only have a browser anyway.
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My question is what kind of RAM and CPU will these P Cs have? I ask because I have an 8 hour battery life, 2 gb of RAM, and a 1.77 ghz dual core processor on my ASUS netbook, which I bought for $280.
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