<story><title>Google Announces $1,299 Chromebook Pixel With 2560×1700px Touchscreen</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/21/google-announces-1299-chromebook-pixel-with-2560x1700-32-12-85-touchscreen-core-i5-cpu-1tb-of-google-drive-storage-optional-lte/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>So a little bit lighter and thinner than the Macbook Pro, with a slightly higher-resolution but smaller screen, but with a much slower CPU (1.8 GHz versus 2.5 GHz), and a much smaller SSD (32 GB versus 128 GB), for $200 less.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m not seeing the value proposition here. What can you even run on a Chromebook that would need a Core i5 CPU?&lt;p&gt;The more interesting one is the $1,449 model with LTE and 64GB, but I don&apos;t think it&apos;s particularly compelling. I have a Verizon 4G LTE hotspot and the highest plan is $90/month for 10 GB. I blow through that in 20 days or so even though I don&apos;t watch Netflix, use the office wi-fi whenever I can, etc. That&apos;s a lot of money to pay to use apps (GMail, Google Docs) that aren&apos;t even very good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wmf</author><text>You need an i5 just to drive that crazy screen. People have reported that the 13&quot; rMBP (which uses the same GPU as the Chromebook) can barely handle its retina display.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Announces $1,299 Chromebook Pixel With 2560×1700px Touchscreen</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/21/google-announces-1299-chromebook-pixel-with-2560x1700-32-12-85-touchscreen-core-i5-cpu-1tb-of-google-drive-storage-optional-lte/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>So a little bit lighter and thinner than the Macbook Pro, with a slightly higher-resolution but smaller screen, but with a much slower CPU (1.8 GHz versus 2.5 GHz), and a much smaller SSD (32 GB versus 128 GB), for $200 less.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m not seeing the value proposition here. What can you even run on a Chromebook that would need a Core i5 CPU?&lt;p&gt;The more interesting one is the $1,449 model with LTE and 64GB, but I don&apos;t think it&apos;s particularly compelling. I have a Verizon 4G LTE hotspot and the highest plan is $90/month for 10 GB. I blow through that in 20 days or so even though I don&apos;t watch Netflix, use the office wi-fi whenever I can, etc. That&apos;s a lot of money to pay to use apps (GMail, Google Docs) that aren&apos;t even very good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clicks</author><text>&amp;#62; I&apos;m not seeing the value proposition here.&lt;p&gt;I think what they&apos;re going for is the computer-on-cloud concept taken to new heights -- not worrying about viruses or malware (Google is effectively the new system administrator of your machine), not worrying about data being unavailable going from one device to another is the value proposition they&apos;re offering.&lt;p&gt;If you really consider what the bigger half of people use computers for (watching videos, social networking, basic word processing, etc.) it suits their needs well, and the value proposition will probably resonate with them.</text></comment>