<story><title>2015 Chromebook Pixel</title><url>http://www.google.com/chromebook/pixel/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cdelsolar</author><text>because $1299 is a fortune</text></item><item><author>JustSomeNobody</author><text>Right. Because my desire is to spend a fortune, only to have to spend another fortune to make it all just work.</text></item><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>What most people have missed is that USB allows charging and data over the same port. So you can easily get a power adapter that has a charging tip which has on the same cord another USB-C port (socket) which you can plug into your display chain, or port replicator or what not.&lt;p&gt;In Apple&amp;#x27;s case I fully expect they will make it so that when you plug your Apple display into your laptop it also charges it since the charger is permanently connected to (or built into) the Apple monitor&amp;#x2F;display.</text></item><item><author>revelation</author><text>Jesus, designing a usable ultrabook must be very difficult.&lt;p&gt;We have one contender from California, but their ideology has them offer just a &lt;i&gt;single&lt;/i&gt; USB-C port. Now we get the competitor from Mountain View, who have rightly recognized the need for more than one fucking port when that&amp;#x27;s how you charge the damn thing, and what do they decide?&lt;p&gt;Oh yeah, we&amp;#x27;ll top out storage at 64GiB.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aikah</author><text>&amp;gt; because $1299 is a fortune&lt;p&gt;Yes, for some people it is a serious investment.&lt;p&gt;You might win 500k or more a year, good for you, you are successful. But for people who have kids who will have to go to University ,even at 100k a year , $1300 isn&amp;#x27;t a small amount of money.&lt;p&gt;If you think people buy laptops like they buy candies well you&amp;#x27;re a privileged man, and again I wish you the best,but that&amp;#x27;s not the reality for most of us.</text></comment>
<story><title>2015 Chromebook Pixel</title><url>http://www.google.com/chromebook/pixel/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cdelsolar</author><text>because $1299 is a fortune</text></item><item><author>JustSomeNobody</author><text>Right. Because my desire is to spend a fortune, only to have to spend another fortune to make it all just work.</text></item><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>What most people have missed is that USB allows charging and data over the same port. So you can easily get a power adapter that has a charging tip which has on the same cord another USB-C port (socket) which you can plug into your display chain, or port replicator or what not.&lt;p&gt;In Apple&amp;#x27;s case I fully expect they will make it so that when you plug your Apple display into your laptop it also charges it since the charger is permanently connected to (or built into) the Apple monitor&amp;#x2F;display.</text></item><item><author>revelation</author><text>Jesus, designing a usable ultrabook must be very difficult.&lt;p&gt;We have one contender from California, but their ideology has them offer just a &lt;i&gt;single&lt;/i&gt; USB-C port. Now we get the competitor from Mountain View, who have rightly recognized the need for more than one fucking port when that&amp;#x27;s how you charge the damn thing, and what do they decide?&lt;p&gt;Oh yeah, we&amp;#x27;ll top out storage at 64GiB.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cssmoo</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s somewhat subjective.&lt;p&gt;Personally I wouldn&amp;#x27;t pay more than $300 a machine and consider $1299 to be pretty extortionate amounts of cash considering the rate of depreciation.&lt;p&gt;Hey everyone I just worked 2x the time to pay for something shiny with no productivity gain!&lt;p&gt;(I use a shitty old X201 with 4Gb RAM and an SSD from eBay connected to a monitor I skip dived because it was 5:4 ratio)</text></comment>